Texas Hippie Coalition

With a Southern rock-influenced brand of metal that pours punk, grunge, and pure melodic hard rock into the blender, Texas Hippie Coalition evokes Molly Hatchet and Charlie Daniels crossed with Pantera chasing after the rock ghost of Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band took up residency on the Billboard heatseekers chart before cracking the Top 200 with the release of 2014's Ride On. THC continued to refine its Texas outlaw-metal sound on subsequent efforts High in the Saddle (2019) and The Name Lives On (2023). Their self-described "red dirt metal" is very much a product of gigging o...