Born on Cape Cod in 2021, Electric Tomb play heavy doom metal with an air of coastal isolation, their slow, tolling riffs carrying a kind of nautical bleakness that makes the Hyannis origins feel fitting.

Rochester, New York's Elfspell conjure epic doom and traditional heavy metal with a mythological scale, their sound since 2015 built on massive clean vocals, crushing riffs, and a commitment to the genre's most grandiose traditions.

Devastating Progressive / Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.

Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.

Ohio's Elusive Travel have been moving at doom/death's agonizingly deliberate pace since 2001, letting despair accumulate bar by bar — one of the longer-running acts in a subgenre that rewards patience with weight.

Oakland's Embers fuse black metal's icy atmosphere with doom's crushing weight and crust punk's streetwise grit, building something uniquely Bay Area in its bleakness. Active since 2009, they've carved out a space where political urgency and sonic desolation intersect.

New England's Embitterment throw melodic black metal, death, thrash, and speed into a single volatile concoction, arriving in 2025 with a genre-blurring approach that refuses easy categorization. Expect fierce melodic leads cutting through blackened death metal chaos at speed-metal tempo.

Birmingham's Embr move at the pace of deep Southern heat, spinning out heavy, narcotic stoner doom that suits Alabama's geography. Since 2016, the band has cultivated a sound that's equal parts psychedelic haze and gravitational pull.

Madison's Emerald Douglas trade in thick stoner riffs and slow-crawling doom, channeling the cold Wisconsin winters into music built for haze, weight, and deliberate, crushing movement.

Hattiesburg's Emerald Heavy live up to their name with Southern-drenched sludge and doom that moves like storm weather rolling in off the Gulf — slow, humid, and impossible to outrun.

Austin's Emerald Wolfen channel the city's storied stoner and doom heritage into slow, lysergic riff cycles built for volume and open space — music that feels as much at home in the Texas Hill Country as it does in a sweat-soaked venue.

Colossal Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.

Yorba Linda's Emphysema pull doom and death metal into a dense, suffocating collision, building songs that labor under their own weight with the slow-motion menace the subgenre demands.

Brooklyn's Empire of Dust arrived in 2023 blending melodic thrash aggression with metalcore structure, channeling New York City's restless energy into a sound that moves between technical riffing and muscular breakdown momentum.

Minneapolis outfit Empires have been dragging doom and sludge through post-metal's murky corridors since 2008, building suffocating walls of slow-motion riff work layered with atmospheric texture.