Pittsburgh's Entheogen laces symphonic grandeur into deathcore and death metal, building an overpowering wall of sound that juxtaposes orchestral sweep with modern extremity. Formed in 2017, they're one of the more ambitious acts in the city's underground.

Santa Cruz's Entheos emerged in 2015 as one of progressive deathcore's more technically accomplished acts, blending jazz-influenced rhythmic complexity with modern extremity and the kind of compositional sophistication that earns them fans in multiple metal camps.

Waukegan, Illinois's Enthrall has been grinding out death metal since 1993, accumulating three decades of experience that show in a sound which is efficient, undecorated, and thoroughly seasoned. Longevity in this genre is its own kind of credibility.

Akron's Enthrall has carried the torch for Ohio death metal since 1993, delivering the blunt-force punishment that rust belt underground scenes tend to produce — workmanlike, heavy, and uninterested in trends. Decades in without losing momentum.

El Cajon's Enthrallment has been fusing death metal and hardcore since 1999, channeling the San Diego underground's pit-ready intensity into a hybrid that hits with the pummeling directness of both genres and the compromise of neither.

Davis, California's Enthroned has been a fixture of Northern California death metal since 1995, building a career on decades of consistent output that prioritizes heaviness and craft over trend-chasing. A quiet pillar of the West Coast underground.

Streetsboro, Ohio's Entity of Extinction weaponizes technical death metal and grindcore together, pushing both toward their logical extremes — the precision of the former sharpened by the speed and fury of the latter. Active since 2014 and unrelenting throughout.

Seattle's Entmoot — named after the deliberate gathering of Tolkien's Ents — moves with measured, crushing intention through stoner and sludge metal, building monolithic riffs that reward patience. A young band with an ancient weight to their sound.

Salt Lake City's Entomb the Wicked has been bridging death metal and deathcore since 2015, bringing Utah's underrated heavy scene to bear on a sound that's both crushing and technically accomplished. Proof that the Mountain West has teeth.