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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Parlin, New Jersey's El-Ahrairah has been grinding out a death metal and grindcore hybrid since 2009, sharing a name with the Minneapolis black metal act but occupying a completely different sonic space. Brutal, economical, and unrelenting.
Chicago's Elbow Deep has been pummeling the city's underground death metal scene since 2013. Straightforward and unapologetically blunt, the band commits to the genre's most visceral instincts without embellishment.
Independence, Kentucky's EldenWhite arrived in 2024 with a progressive death metal approach that suggests ambitions well beyond the band's nascent existence. Technical ferocity and melodic sophistication already compete for space in their sound.
Nashville's Eldercall has been bringing symphonic weight and melodic death metal intensity to Music City since 2020. Orchestral grandeur and melodic ferocity are the defining elements of their approach.
A California-based outfit formed in 2023, Eldon Cult merges progressive structures with the melodic and brutal ends of death metal, crafting technically ambitious music that refuses to sit still within any single subgenre.
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.
One of death metal's quiet veterans, Eldritch Horror have been grinding out straightforward, no-frills death metal from Raleigh since 1991, accumulating decades of underground credibility without ever softening their approach.
Solo symphonic/viking metal project by multi-instrumentalist Christoph V., combining majestic orchestral arrangements with heavy 7-string guitar work and Norse mythological themes.
Rochester's Electric Bath have carved out a niche in grindcore-laced death metal since 2023, keeping things brutally short and surgically violent in the tradition of the genre's most relentless practitioners.
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