Texas Underground Death/Black Metal

Texas has a long and intense metal tradition of creating great bands that are later celebrated while socially-aggressive bands who are promoted initially for their popularity fade away quickly. The necessary conclusion is not to believe the hype, but to look for the elites buried in the shifting sands of social opinion.

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Bands

Absu	Speeding chaos in the style of a modern black metal band with a melodic core that brings to mind Mercyful Fate or Iron Maiden. [more] absu homepage
Acerbus	Taking music further than social pretense allows, Acerbus hammer through polyglot rhythms of deathgrind and add a displacing complexity of arrangement and melodic guitar. [more] acerbus homepage
Adumus	Having changed style recently from flowery late-model Swedish-style melodic metal, Adumus are making progress in a newer, simpler and more rhythmically violent style. adumus homepage
Averse Sefira	Electric speed of full-on assault cloaks these contemplative poems of existential navigation as told from a celestial perspective. [more] averse sefira homepage
Bahimiron	Melodic yet blistering black metal within the best tradition of European metal merged with an American brutality and hardcore sensibility for riding rhythms and urgent riffs. [more] bahimiron homepage
Burning Midget	Collection of recycled tropes from melodic Swedish metal and Florida death metal together create a band with a vaguely carnival aspect to its wandering songs; seems a "humor" band. burning midget homepage
Crimson Massacre	Loud and abrasive black metal backed by keyboards which moves between raw modern riffing and classic heavy metal parts. crimson massacre homepage
Demure	Elemental throbbing of rhythmic death metal placed into the framework of black metal aesthetics makes for a droning listen. demure homepage
Hideously Defleshed	Contextured melodic metal with fast death metal riffs mixed with hardcore, power metal and heavy metal quotations to the cadence of a ripping death vocal. hideously defleshed homepage
Imprecation	Dry sawing death metal with an occultism of small patterns arrayed in formations of starkly broad conflict. [more] imprecation homepage
Infinite Singularity	Exotic genres embedded in an alternative/pop format with underlying interplay between metal riffs and progressive-style narrative keyboard playing. infinite singularity homepage
Infliction	Standard deathgrind of basic two chord riffs, harmonics and thudding, pounding rhythm playing on an unrelenting cadence (with fills). infliction homepage
Insidious Decrepancy	Alternatingly pounding and speeding Suffocation-inspired deathgrind with guttural vocals locked in cadence over drums keeping mid-paced tempo within a context of faster timekeeping. insidious decrepancy homepage
Irreverence	A combination between lush melodic death metal and gracefully self-interlocking strings of notes forming a enduring harmony; like Sentenced or Rotting Christ. irreverence homepage
Last Eve	Melodic heavy metal/black metal with compact songwriting and a standard but qualified use of sentiment in songwriting. last eve homepage
Masochism	Fast minimal black metal in the older style as updated in a spinning lightspeed approach of fluid yet aggressive death/black metal. masochism homepage
Mortality	Very basic pounding cadences of thunderous repetition in old school rhythmic death metal that does not relent and has a few modernizations in simple dissonance. mortality homepage
Necrovore	One of the original templates for underground metal, this band use simple songs with unpredictable changes in structure to make brief framents of melody into rhythmically compelling songs. necrovore homepage
Nosferion	Like many American bands, Nosferion produce a standard hybrid of "raw" (melodic) black metal and basic death metal/punk riffing that achieves an atmosphere of consistent impression. nosferion homepage
Of the Fallen	An Iron Maiden-inspired heavy metal band who added keys and black metal sound, these gents put out an inspiring demo and then froze in motion. of the fallen homepage
Panteon	An old school heavy metal band that kept mutating until it reached an aspect of black metal and developed a melodic, evenly-paced style. panteon homepage
Putrilage	Cut straight from the book of deathgrind in the simplest of death metal's styles, this band is thunderous cadence, churning riff and flickering harmonic sound with a basic aptitude that makes it listenable. putrilage homepage
Reign of Terror	Fast and mid-paced death metal which emphasizes both drawn-out and painful drone riffing and short impacts of morbid rhythmic recursion. reign of terror homepage
Rigor Mortis	Blistering melodic assault with intricate phrasing that wraps around thrusting, undulating, unrelenting rhythm. [more] rigor mortis homepage
Severance	Pugilistic death/grind with ebullient rhythm and a frontier of hazily defined song structures in which riffs change semi-randomly. [more] severance homepage
Thornspawn	Reminiscent of bands such as Summon, this band strings together riff salad songs in the death metal style but ultimately achieves little that Summon did not. thornspawn homepage
To Scale The Throne	A blunt blasting black metal assault patterned after the style of European hyperspeed metal mixed with American blackgrind. to scale the throne homepage
Enearthed	Somewhere between a mid-paced death metal band and the Pantera-Metallica axis of angry and firmly rhythmic metal, this band cycles through known riff styles with melodic undertones. unearthed homepage
Vesperian Sorrow	Really a heavy metal band in black metal attire, Vesperian Sorrow combine atmospheric asthetics with well-known patterns from metal past. vesperian sorrow homepage
Vex	A fusion of simple black/death metal and melodic heavy metal, this band use bludgeon-simple riffing to offset wandering song structures and harmonizing transitions. vex homepage
Violate	Fast attack deathgrind that seizes a rhythm and holds it with a counterpoint to establish cadence, then tears both asunder for a verse-chorus song. violate homepage
Xphyxia	Hard-working band fuses technical death metal with metalcore while maintaining an intricacy of playing and metal ferocity. xphyxia homepage

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