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Days of Ruin (2020)
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Split - EP (2015)
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Meditations I (2026)
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Punishing Melodic Black / Death Metal from Lubbock.
Fierce Speed / Heavy Metal / Punk from Houston.
Intense Black / Heavy Metal out of Texas.
Ripping Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Dallas.
Nu-metal heavyweights from San Antonio. "South Texas Deathride" and "Turn Me On Mr. Deadman" were inescapable in the early 2000s.
Heavy Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.
Heavy Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal from Houston.
Intense Heavy Metal out of Texas.
Intense Heavy Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
Hard-hitting Avant-garde Metal from Fort Worth.
Houston occult doom/heavy metal. Dark, groovy, and dripping with evil.
Originally an Oakland band on Ripple Music, relocated to Austin in 2020. Two albums of Pentagram and Deep Purple-inspired heavy rock.
Massive Drone / Doom / Folk Metal from Texas (early); Kraków, Poland (later).
Relentless Thrash Metal (early); Speed / Heavy Metal (later) from San Antonio.
Heavy Heavy Metal out of Texas.
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