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Buffalo's Eira threads together blackened death and progressive metal into something genuinely restless since forming in 2022. The band's willingness to pull from multiple extreme subgenres at once keeps things unpredictable and sharp.
Los Angeles technical black/death metal outfit Eiris has been refining a precision-engineered approach to extremity since 2017. Their music balances surgical riffing with the savagery expected of the blackened death tradition.
Cincinnati's Eisen Geist fuses black metal's malevolence with the propulsive, reckless energy of thrash, a combination the band has been honing since 2019. The result is nasty, fast, and shot through with a distinctly Germanic grimness.
Eishalle — "ice rink" in German — is an American raw black metal and ambient project whose location remains undisclosed. Since 2018 they've constructed an icy, desolate sound that lives between abrasive black metal and cold ambient drift.
Venomous Atmospheric Black Metal from Austin.
Grand Rapids, Michigan's Eissturm blends black metal with folk and ambient textures, crafting music that evokes the wooded isolation of the Great Lakes region since 2013. Pagan themes and wintry atmosphere run through their output in equal measure.
Burlington, Vermont's Ejaculatör has been delivering a nasty amalgam of black, thrash, and death metal since 2020, the umlaut signaling a dedication to filthy excess across all three traditions. Raw, fast, and gloriously crude.
Denver's Ekelhaft — German for "disgusting" — has been practicing a no-frills, antagonistic strain of black metal since 2016. The name sets expectations that the music meets without apology.
An American symphonic black metal project that materialized in 2025, Ekvitkar arrives with grand orchestral ambitions wrapped around black metal's traditional ferocity. One of the newest entries in the symphonic extreme metal underground.
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