about Extreme Texas Metal

Extreme Texas Metal first came into existence in 2001 as Texas Metal Underground, a GeoCities website geared towards boosting the dying Austin metal scene. The name was later changed to Extreme Texas Metal to cater to an older metal nostalgia site that claimed rights to the former name. There was no negative effect as the site continued to slowly become more popular. It may have been in part due to the site's focus widening to encompass all extreme metal and their scenes in the entire state of Texas. 

In late 2003 the limited dependability of GeoCities was finally left behind when extremetexasmetal.com was founded. A new forum was constructed and linked to the site even though the old Texas Metal Yahoo Group still receives posts to this day. The site's main purpose however remains unchanged: To provide info on upcoming shows around Texas, links to bands, promoter /distributor info, and links to other metal sites here in Texas and beyond. This site is dedicated to ALL black, doom, grindcore, and death metal bands AND their fans from all corners of this great state of Texas. 

http://www.extremetexasmetal.com

http://www.myspace.com/extremetexasmetal

ETM has also worked with the following organizations: Adversary Productions, Chaotic Goat Records, Dark Requiems Productions, Devourment Productions, La Metal Freaktress Productions, Sick as Shit Productions, Pure Metal Sickness, Realms of Metal, Rigor Mortis Records, Extreme Drumming, Vile Kyle (Kaos Radio), The EDGE Magazine, Goregrowler Productions, South Texas Metal Productions

We have also worked with the following venues: The Backroom (Austin), Cardi's (Houston), Room 710 (Austin), Red 7 (Austin), Redrum Club (Austin), Smiley's Ballroom (Harlingen), Chapa's (Brownsville), and The Dixie Tavern RIP (New Orleans).

Hello, and thank you for stopping by my website. My name is Anna, and I am the founder of Extreme Texas Metal. From 2001-2008 I spent my free time on helping create a stronger community for our underground metal scene in Texas. With the help of many bands and other promoters and supporters, we had some amazing events around the state. 

Since 2009, I stepped away from everything in order to take care of my young children. In that time, i lost  ownership of my domain name, but managers to snag it by pure luck and good timing. Since then, i have tried to salvage everything I could find from the old days, and somehow bring back ETM to it's glory days. Unfortunately, time is less available these days, and I just don't have the capacity or connections to book metal shows ... for now. 

So, with that said, I will focus on making ETM the mecca for information to help bands, promoters, venues, booking agents, distros, and fellow metal heads. I will also bring back interviews, and will do the occasional vlog/blog when attending metal shows or fests in the future. 

Keep an eye out for updates.