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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Luminiferous (2015)
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Shame On Me (2022)
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Orlando's Emporos fuse melodic deathcore with punishing death metal, pairing razor-edged guitar harmonies against the kind of heavy breakdowns that Central Florida's pit crowd demands.
Lakeland's Empty pursue melodic death metal with clean Floridian ferocity, threading grief-soaked harmonies through tight, technically precise riffing since 2020.
Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.
Dallas death metal unit Empty Shell have been excavating brutality from the Texas underground since 2014, delivering pulverizing riff work with the no-frills directness the genre demands.
Melodic blackened death metal forged out of Sioux Falls, Empty Throne blend glacial atmosphere with visceral extremity — sweeping, dark, and arrived fully-formed in 2021.
Out of Moberly, Missouri, Empusa with Devastation channel melodic death metal and metalcore into something sharp and unsettled, a young band already reaching for vicious complexity since their 2023 formation.
Littleton's Empyrean Eclipse have been pursuing melodic death metal since 2004, developing a Colorado-crafted approach that layers Nordic-influenced melody over technically sharp, muscular foundations.
Oak Lawn's Empyrean Sky have spent two decades fusing progressive architecture into death metal's brutality, a Chicago-area outfit with enough compositional ambition to keep the riffs from going anywhere predictable.
Lake Forest's Empyrean Throne operate at the intersection of technical black and death metal, deploying precise, labyrinthine riff work that demands close attention from the Southern California underground.
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