New York thrashers who launched in 2015 with a lean, stripped-down attack that keeps the genre's classic aggression front and center. Their name mirrors their style — sharp edges, no fat.

Out of Marfa, Texas — a remote high-desert art town as far from a thriving metal scene as you can get — E.E.O.G. trades on slow, sun-cooked doom and stoner riffs that feel as wide and empty as the Chihuahuan landscape outside their door.

Pittsburgh's E.F.6 tears through the intersection of death metal and goregrind with blunt-force efficiency, formed in 2018 and operating in a city with a long tradition of underground extremity.

Austin stoner/heavy rock. Massive riffs with a Southern groove.

One of the more singular acts in American heavy music, Eagle Twin emerged from Salt Lake City in 2009 to build an uncompromising wall of drone-heavy sludge doom, where riffs don't so much crush as they slowly collapse under their own gravity.

Eagles of Death Metal is the garage rock brainchild of Jesse Hughes and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, formed in Palm Desert, California in 1998. Despite the misleading name, the band plays loose, swaggering blues-punk that owes more to the Rolling Stones and MC5 than to any metal tradition. Their catalog of feel-good, riff-driven rock and roll, including 'Peace Love Death Metal' and 'Heart On,' is built for dancing rather than headbanging, powered by Hughes' irreverent charisma.

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.

Portland's Ealdath has been threading doom and death metal together since 2014, drawing on the Northwest's overcast atmosphere to give their sound a particularly cold and funereal weight.

A Salt Lake City act that has quietly developed a blend of melodic death and black metal since 2008, Eallic leans into the melodic side of both genres to craft something darker and more atmospheric than either alone.