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Austin stoner/heavy rock. Massive riffs with a Southern groove.
Denver newcomers Eaglewing launched in 2024 with a straightforward heavy metal identity in a city whose underground has grown considerably in recent years — young, loud, and just getting started.
Los Angeles's Early Man has been a reliable deliverer of meat-and-potatoes heavy/speed/thrash metal since 2004, with a sound that wears its classic influences openly and plays them with genuine muscle.
A Los Angeles act sharing the Earth name since 1993, this heavy/stoner outfit operates in far more traditional territory than their Washington namesakes, delivering riff-forward metal built for the road.
Portland's Earth to Ashes has been delivering traditional heavy metal since 2014 with the kind of earnest conviction the genre requires — no gimmicks, just riffs and the long shadow of the bands who invented this sound.
Yonkers, New York's Earthbound A.D. has been writing traditional heavy metal since 2011, drawing on the New York area's long metallic lineage with the kind of no-nonsense approach the genre has always rewarded.
San Antonio's Earthen has been operating in the heavy doom metal tradition since 2005, a Texas band that moves at a funeral pace and draws on the long shadows the state's harder rock history casts over everything beneath it.
Boston's Earthlore moves through psychedelic heavy metal, stoner, and doom with the measured confidence of a band that knows the territory — formed in 2019 and building something warmer and more textured than pure doom alone.
Out of Chesapeake, Virginia, Echoes of Solitude craft melodic heavy metal with an introspective character that suits their name — earnest and hook-driven, active since 2015.
Sparks, Nevada's Echopeople have been crafting heavy metal with a hard rock sensibility since 2007 — a working-class desert sound that doesn't overcomplicate what it wants to do.
Fort Wayne's Echosoul blend progressive and power metal into something ambitious and melodic, active since 2014 with a sound that favors technical development over brute force.
Anaheim's Eden arrived in 2020 with a traditional heavy metal sensibility rooted in the Southern California scene — earnest and riff-forward, drawing from the genre's classic foundations.
Eden Burns work the groove-heavy end of heavy metal with a muscular, no-nonsense approach, formed in Bowie in 2020 with enough swing in the riffs to keep heads moving.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Eden on Fire are a 2023 heavy metal outfit carrying the torch for the genre's classic forms — a new band from the Great Lakes region with old instincts.
This Texas Edge of Chaos take a different angle entirely — neoclassical shred and heavy metal technique, guitar-forward and precision-minded, formed in 2020 with a focus on melodic virtuosity.
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