Pittsburgh's Emanon have been sharpening their speed and thrash attack since 2005, drawing on classic American aggression and razor-tight riffwork. The band moves with the propulsive urgency of old Bay Area thrash filtered through Steel City grit.

Virginia Beach's Emanon fuse the twin-guitar gallop of power metal with the hard-nosed crunch of thrash, landing somewhere between anthem and assault. Active since 2005, they bring a coastal punch to a sound built for open roads and raised fists.

Buffalo's Embalmed have spent over three decades threading thrash's rhythmic aggression through death metal's suffocating low end. Formed in 1991, they remain one of upstate New York's most enduring extreme metal acts.

Georgia's Embering Effigy emerged from Conyers in 2023 forging a groove-driven thrash sound with a modern edge. Heavy grooves anchor their attack while the thrash component keeps the tempo volatile and the energy confrontational.

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.

Portland's Embrace the Kill sharpen thrash metal's traditional aggression against punk's stripped-down ethic, resulting in a lean and lethal sound. Since 2018, they've been one of the Pacific Northwest's harder-edged contributions to thrash's ongoing underground resurgence.

Sacramento's Emerther bring Bay Area-adjacent aggression to their thrash, leaning on tight rhythmic attack and a no-nonsense approach to the genre that values speed and precision above all else.

California's Central Coast town of Atascadero is an unlikely birthplace for a death-grind outfit, but Emetic have been operating there since 2012, delivering short, savage blasts of noise that owe as much to grindcore's hardcore roots as to death metal's brutality.

Progressive melodic death metal featuring Nick Brady and Ryan Cullins on guitars with influences ranging from technical death to melodic hooks. Self-released their debut EP in 2013.

This melodic thrash and power metal outfit threads together speed, hook, and epic construction, drawing from European and American metal traditions equally to build a sound that rewards both headbanging and close listening.

Long Beach's Empathy carve progressive thrash metal with Southern California's technical precision and just enough melodic sophistication to separate them from pure aggression acts — cerebral without losing the crunch.

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.

Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.

Dallas death metal unit Empty Shell have been excavating brutality from the Texas underground since 2014, delivering pulverizing riff work with the no-frills directness the genre demands.

San Francisco's Empty Suits channel blackened thrash with a punk backbone, dragging Bay Area aggression through the filth of second-wave black metal since 2019.