Out of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — a town with its own ghosts — Ectoplasm have been grinding through the death/grind underground since 2019, their name fitting perfectly for a band rising from historically haunted soil.

Tulsa's Ectospire formed in 2022 with a focused commitment to death metal's core values — a band from Oklahoma's second city finding its footing in the genre's underground.

Birmingham, Alabama's Ectovoid have been cultivating a deeply cavernous strain of death metal since 2011 — murky, subterranean, and rooted in the earliest traditions of the form.

Ecuador Cadáver is a death/thrash metal band from Machala, Ecuador, formed in 2004. Driven by themes of war, Ecuadorian violence, and anti-Judeo-Christian ideology, the band built their catalog with the full-lengths Dark Path of Blood and Fire (2009) and Unholy Triarchy of the Ancient Covenant (2012), alongside numerous demos and splits released through Wolfgang Records.

Austin noise rock/post-punk. One of the great unsung bands of the Austin underground.

Denver's Eddie Kim charts one of the more interesting trajectories in the underground — starting from post-rock and progressive territory before evolving toward death metal, deathcore, and djent, active since 2011.

Edeem is a death metal band from San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico, formed in 2015. The band draws influence from black metal, metalcore, science fiction, and horror, and released their debut EP "En la boca de la locura" in 2019. A follow-up demo, "Demo[níaco]," appeared in 2021.

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.