Bedemon was an American doom metal project active in recordings from 1973, formed by Pentagram guitarist Randy Palmer alongside bandmates Bobby Liebling and Geof O'Keefe. Never a performing band, the project existed solely in home recordings that captured an early and raw form of what would become doom metal, all recorded on home equipment and never intended for public release. The recordings were finally collected and issued as Child of Darkness: From the Original Master Tapes in 2004; a second album, Symphony of Shadows, was completed posthumously after Palmer's death in August 2002.

Fierce Heavy Metal from McAllen.

Fierce Heavy Metal from Austin.

Hard-hitting Heavy Metal from Forney.

Built around a Hammond B-3 organ, channeling 70s proto-metal heavyweights like Deep Purple into proggy, jazz-inflected doom.

Heavy Blackened Death Metal from Houston.

Intense Heavy Metal from Fort Worth.

Olympia, Washington's C Average have been conjuring heavy and doom-laden metal since 1996, drawing on medieval and fantasy themes. They are perhaps best known for performing a live score to the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu alongside cellist Lori Goldston at the Capitol Theater.

Baltimore heavy metal and hard rock act C.I.A. were active from around 1980 and released material through Fat Daddy Records, with a track appearing on the local 98 Rock Vol. II compilation in 1982.