Castro Valley's Enshrouded emerged in 2017 from the Bay Area's fertile blackened death metal underground, cloaking death metal's crushing physicality in the cold atmosphere and dissonance of black metal.

Cedarville, Ohio's Enslaved has been grinding out thrash-inflected death metal since 1992, representing the persistence of Midwest extreme metal through decades of shifts in the underground landscape.

Seattle's Entelech has been refining melodic death metal since 2011, weaving guitar harmonies and Scandinavian-influenced leads through a framework of technical precision and genuine songwriting ambition. They treat melody not as decoration but as architecture.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Enter Nowhere blends melodic death, progressive metal, and metalcore into something that refuses easy categorization — technical enough to reward close listening, heavy enough to bulldoze a room. Founded in 2022, they're already pushing genre boundaries.

Barely out of the gate since forming in Knoxville in 2025, Enter Self brings a direct death metal approach rooted in Tennessee's underground, trading in visceral riffs and a no-frills commitment to the genre's core brutality.

New York's Enterocele is a slam and brutal death metal project that leans hard into the grotesque physicality the genre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, churning slam riffs, and the kind of blunt-force heaviness that makes polite music fans uncomfortable. Active since 2021.

A long-running death metal act out of Los Angeles, Entety has spent over a decade honing a sound that draws on the California underground — bludgeoning riffs delivered with a workmanlike ferocity that keeps the focus squarely on the music. Active since 2012.

Greenville, South Carolina's Enthean operates at the intersection of technical death and black metal, crafting dense, labyrinthine compositions that demand repeated listening to fully unpack. Their cerebral approach sets them apart from the straightforward brutality of regional peers.

Filthy Black Metal out of Texas.