Columbus, Ohio's Echushkya emerged in 2019 with a focus on atmospheric black metal that leans inward — cold, immersive, and dedicated to the subgenre's more contemplative possibilities.

Norfolk's Eclipsus work the depressive and atmospheric strains of black metal, a project formed in 2021 that finds its character in bleak, suffocating soundscapes from the Virginia coast.

Tucson's desert heat makes for an unlikely home for black metal, but Edicule — formed in 2021 — has carved out a cold and uncompromising niche in the Arizona underground, where isolation and scorched landscapes lend the music an eerie desolation.

Denver's Eelnoc, born in 2021, collides black metal atmosphere with post-hardcore abrasion — a tension-driven combination that suits the mile-high city's restless underground. Cold riffs and confrontational energy in the same breath.

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Named for the treacherous figure of Welsh mythology, Phoenix's Efnisien channels pure black metal menace since 2020, standing apart in the Arizona desert with a name that reaches back to ancient darkness.

Named for the Aztec wind god, Bay Area's Ehecatl channels atmospheric black metal with a conceptual depth that matches the name's mythological weight — cold, expansive, and active since 2015 in California's rich underground.

New Haven's Ehrgeizig — the German word for "ambitious" — has been shaping black metal in Connecticut since 2022, drawing on Germanic vocabulary and the atmosphere one expects from a college town with a Gothic architecture and an art scene that takes darkness seriously.

Grand Rapids' Eichenwald — "oak forest" in German — has cultivated dark ambient and atmospheric black metal since 2016, their Michigan home lending the project a natural severity of season and landscape that bleeds into every note.