Salt Lake City technical death metal outfit Envenom deliver dense, surgical riffing and labyrinthine song structures, showcasing Utah's underrated extreme metal underground since 2017.

Crushing Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Houston.

Willow Springs, Illinois death metal outfit Envy the Dead cut their path through the Chicago suburban underground with unadorned brutality and straight-for-the-throat riff delivery since 2020.

Idaho's Eon of Anguish conjure black/death metal in the isolated Pacific Northwest interior, harnessing the region's remote vastness into music of cold and relentless darkness since 2021.

Knoxville's Eonian pair sweeping symphonic orchestration with melodic death metal's twin-guitar ferocity, crafting cinematic extremity from the Appalachian foothills since 2021.

Southern Florida death metal act Ephemeral traffic in suffocating brutality with the sweltering intensity the Sunshine State's underground is known for, active since 2019.

Theatrical symphonic extreme metal conceived by frontman Dennis Dorsett. Featured in the documentaries 'Heavy in Houston' and 'Heavier in Houston.' Have shared stages with Nile, Deicide, and Carach Angren.

Charlotte's Epic of Empyrea has been navigating the intersection of technical death and black metal since 1998, building a catalog rooted in precision and malevolence. Few bands in the Carolinas have pursued extremity with such sustained commitment over nearly three decades.

Texas-based Epic of Lucius carve out their space in melodic death metal with songwriting that favors atmosphere and narrative momentum alongside sharp riffwork. Active since 2017, the band channels the storytelling instinct embedded in their name into hook-laden heaviness.

Pomona death metal act Epicaricacy took their name from the obscure English word for taking pleasure in others' misfortune — an appropriately grim choice for music this punishing. Founded in 2023, they're among the newer voices adding teeth to Southern California's death metal scene.

Chattanooga's Epicedium take their name from the Latin for a funeral song, and their melodic progressive death metal bears that weight with elegance. Since 2021, they've been building a sound that frames grief and complexity as twin engines of heavy music.

Los Angeles's Epigram trade in melodic death and black metal, shaping the grim into something concise and razor-edged — much like the literary device their name evokes. Active since 2008, they've spent years honing a sound that's both fierce and precise.

Chicago's Epilumbarlysis take brutal death metal to a clinical extreme, with a name derived from spinal pathology that signals their commitment to medically precise violence. Since 2020 they've been one of the Midwest's most uncompromising acts in the goregrind-adjacent BDM tradition.

Devastating Deathcore from San Antonio.

Cedar City, Utah's Epistemic Silence pursue avant-garde melodic death metal, approaching the genre with philosophical skepticism built into their very name. Founded in 2024, they're one of the more conceptually ambitious acts to emerge from the Mountain West's metal underground.