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.

Named after the trickster rabbit deity of Richard Adams's Watership Down, Minneapolis's El-Ahrairah has been practicing a cerebral, literary strain of black metal since 2009. The band brings a distinctive mythological perspective to the American black metal underground.

Named after the notoriously transgressive Roman emperor, Baltimore's Elagabalus has been pushing avant-garde black metal into genuinely strange territory since 2014. Their music prizes unpredictability and conceptual ambition over genre orthodoxy.

Madison, Wisconsin's Eldarion has channeled epic and atmospheric black metal since 2022, their name drawn from Tolkien's legendarium. Grand, sweeping riffs and a reverent, ancient atmosphere define their approach to the genre.

A Virginia folk/black metal project formed in 2021, Eldaskal weaves pagan melodic sensibility through black metal's fury. The name evokes the Old Norse tradition of skalds — poet-singers — a fitting emblem for music that values lyricism and storytelling.

Draper, Utah's Elderwood draws on atmospheric folk and black metal traditions to evoke the ancient forests and wide landscapes that sit just beyond the Wasatch Front. Active since 2016, the band channels a pastoral, deeply rooted mysticism.

Richmond's Eldritch have spent well over a decade warping the death/doom template with psychedelic currents, producing music that feels both ancient and hallucinatory — slow, murky, and deeply strange.

Solo symphonic/viking metal project by multi-instrumentalist Christoph V., combining majestic orchestral arrangements with heavy 7-string guitar work and Norse mythological themes.

A Montana solo project born in 2021, Eldvargr deals in raw black metal stripped to its most primal and hostile — thin production and unyielding misanthropy suited to the vast, cold terrain of the American Northwest.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Electric Animal occupies an unusual crossroads between dungeon synth atmospherics and black metal ferocity, building dark, otherworldly soundscapes since 2012 that blur the line between ambiance and aggression.

Indianapolis's Electric Satan cast a wide net across blackened death and doom metal, forging a sound since 2018 that is equal parts sinister and suffocating — the city's underground distilled into something genuinely malevolent.

Oakland's Electromancy bring a technical precision to black metal that sets them apart from the Bay Area pack — formed in 2020, they channel the city's intellectual extremity into densely constructed, technically demanding compositions.

Highstown, New Jersey's Elegia have been delivering traditional power and speed metal since 2010, their songs built around soaring melodic ambition and the kind of riff gallop that lives somewhere between Running Wild and Riot.