Galactic Cowboys

Houston's Galactic Cowboys combine art-rock, thrash, progressive metal, and Beatlesque pop into an idiosyncratic heavy metal stew. Emerging in the early 1990s, the band flirted with mainstream success alongside friends and contemporaries King's X, who shared a propensity for pairing sonic exploration with subtle Christian themes. Their eponymous 1991 debut and subsequent efforts like Space in Your Face (1993) and At the End of the Day (1998) elicited critical acclaim but failed to gain commercial traction, and the group ceased operations in 2000. Galactic Cowboys re-formed in 2017 and inked a deal with Mascot Label Group, which released their seventh long-player, Long Way Back to the Moon.