Boise raw black metal project Ergaster — named for the hominid ancestor Homo ergaster — channels something primal and evolutionary, stripping the genre down to its most feral, unpolished essentials.

Portland, Maine blackened doom metal act Ergi inhabit the bleak coastal winter of New England, drawing the name from Old Norse taboo and channeling that transgressive weight into slow, anguished heaviness.

Erlösung — German for "redemption" or "deliverance" — is an epic black metal project from Statesboro, Georgia, carrying grand and sorrowful themes through expansive compositions built for open skies and cold nights. Since 2021, the one-person endeavor has pursued a vision of black metal as spiritual reckoning rather than mere aggression.

Chicago's Errant grafts the abrasion and cold fury of black metal onto post-metal's patience for expansive, emotionally textured compositions. Formed in 2020, the band channels the Midwest's long winters and urban density into music that is simultaneously claustrophobic and yearning.

Denver's Erraunt treats atmospheric black metal as a canvas for genuine experimentation, layering texture and dissonance over the genre's foundational frostbitten sound in ways that push toward something stranger and harder to classify. Since 2015, the project has operated at the edges of what the genre's atmosphere can contain.

Portland's Erroneous drags black metal's frostbitten fury into doom's oppressive slow tempos, producing music that is as bleak as either genre alone but distinct from both. Since 2019 the band has leaned into the collision between speed-stripped doom and the misanthropic atmosphere of black metal.

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Columbus, Ohio's Erthbrnr began in the chaos of hardcore and crust punk before migrating toward a darker, heavier convergence of black metal, death metal, and sludge. Over more than a decade the band has undergone a genuine stylistic evolution, using each phase as both rejection and extension of the one before.

San Diego's Erusopxecinomeddetaeperhguorhtserisednamuhllafonoitacidarecitametsys — whose name is itself an act of defiance against legibility — practices raw black metal in the most confrontational and uncompromising sense, rejecting accessibility at every level from naming to production to ideology. Formed in 2023, the project treats obscurantism as a principled stance.