TEXAS. Everything can kill you in Texas. The dusty unforgiving landscape says it all about the Lone Star State. A seemingly never ending wasteland of horns, barbs, fangs, and stingers. The ground is a six inch layer of infertile sand and dirt covered with Rattle snakes, venomous spiders, and other belly crawlers. Just below in the hard and rocky soil lives a sea of fire ants that have been know to take down and devour a 1500 pound steer. Every Texan knows the sting of those little fuckers. Armadillos, horned toads what the fuck is that? The very few plants and cactus have thorns and needles as sharp as swords. A foot below the surface is solid limestone. Below that an ocean of black oil. Long, long ago Texas was the bottom of the ancient Permian Sea never intended to host life on its surface. At night, as they say, the stars are bright. You can hear yipping coyotes and the sonar chirping of the millions of bats in the sky. The days are be unbelievably hot. Truly a reptile paradise.
From this comes a unique style of heavy music. Heavy is king in Texas. Psych, Metal, Stoner, Doom bands are everywhere . Texas is HUGE in size with some giant cities as well Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, and a lot of smaller towns as well that all have their own heavy music scene. Giving us a really cool mix of sounds and bands keeping the sound of heavy Texas music ever changing and growing. Live music is everywhere and with tons of music venues you can go see something heavy and killer every night in towns like Austin. Always great new bands carrying the torch playing the same bill with heavy bands that have been around Texas 20 years or more. Home to a ton of killer musicians makes it a great place to be
Words by Tom Frank (DUEL)
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Tracklist:
01. Mothership – Cosmic Rain 04:55
02. Duel – Tyrant on the Throne 04:48
03. Deserts of Mars – Black Leather 03:18
04. The Sword – Tres Brujas 04:09
05. High Desert Queen – Heads Will Roll 04:32
06. Wo Fat – Overworlder 11:54
07. The Well – Mortal Bones 05:31
08. Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol – Gravedigger 04:39
09. Fostermother – Hedonist 04:50
10. Thunder Horse – Let Them Bleed 06:06
11. Lord Buffalo – Tohu Wa Bohu 06:27
12. Warlung – Return of the Warlords 03:47
13. Witchcryer – I Rise! 05:26
14. Doomstress – Dreaming Spider 05:06
15. Burn Ritual – Mark Of The Witch 06:03
16. War Cloud – Divide And Conquer 04:29
17. Crypt Trip – Death After Life 04:38
18. Clyde Von Klaus – Ale of Extractions 02:50
19. Switchblade Jesus – Red Plains 04:36
20. Liquid Sound Company – And To Your Left…Neptune 06:35
21. Greenbeard – Diamond in the Devil’s Grinder 05:20
22. Green Ripper – Hypnotic Hipshaker 04:59
23. Land Mammal – Psychedelic Hand 03:55
24. Eagle Claw – Godmaker 09:12
25. Cactus Flowers – Razor Blade 05:14
26. Novakain – The Oh No! Unknown 04:29
27. Temptress – Serpentine 06:28
28. Crimson Devils – Feels Like the Last Time 04:56
29. Arsis Thesis – Snow 06:17
30. Ancient VVisdom – Deathlike 04:35
31. Ghost Ship Ritual – Dead Man’s Soul 06:17
32. End Of Age – Shoved Through The Window Of Consumption – 02:47
33. Slumbering Sun – Liminal Bridges 06:39
34. Red Beard Wall – Liberate 04:20
35. Direlands – Beyond the Horizon 04:16
36. Las Cruces – The Wraith 05:21
37. Peth – Karmic Debt 10:29
38. Arbiter – Snakes 04:58
39. Bridge Farmers – Wicked Sun 06:22
40. Forebode – Metal Slug 05:28
41. Ethereal – Enter The Womb 04:36
42. The Angelus – Ode To None 05:09
43. Wooden Earth – Carnal Spell 03:14
44. Destroyer of Light – Darkshimmer 07:13
45. Voidstrider – Hunters Moon 03:54
46. Stone Nomads – Fields of Doom 05:42
47. Emperor Guillotine – The Sorceress 10:20
48. Cosmic Funeral – Servant of Sorrow 09:45
49. Venus Blue – Living Dead 07:12
50. Power Fortress – Goddamn this enemy! And the machines that they ride into war! 03:13
51. Scorpion Child – Outliers 05:05
52. The Infamists – Spectral Mistress 04:22
53. Fuzz Lightyear – Blasting Off 07:47
54. Lungrot – Dweller in the Abyss 07:54
55. Beholder – Grackles 05:28
56. Orthodox Fuzz – Village of the Widows 05:07
57. Project Armageddon – Vortex to Oblivion 07:24
58. Voidslime – Futility 07:22
59. Lotus Sutra – Deep Goat 05:32
60. Hollow Skulls – Disincarnation 04:20
61. Endgazer – Nothing Left 05:12
62. Burdener – Fragments 03:27
