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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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San Francisco's Electric Punishment have kept the faith with traditional heavy metal since 2014, operating through their own label imprint and maintaining a no-frills, working-class approach to the genre.
Indianapolis's Electric Satan cast a wide net across blackened death and doom metal, forging a sound since 2018 that is equal parts sinister and suffocating — the city's underground distilled into something genuinely malevolent.
Electric Temple is a U.S. heavy metal act formed in 2011 whose blend of hard rock-adjacent riffing and traditional metal structures suggests a devotion to the classic form that transcends geography.
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.
West Palm Beach's Electric Void traffic in fuzzed-out stoner metal under the South Florida sun, the band's 777-branded Bandcamp presence signaling a devotion to the cosmic and the heavy in equal measure since 2019.
Albuquerque's Electrocuted have been welding death and thrash metal together since 2018 in a city not known for extreme music, making their existence a small but defiant entry in the New Mexico underground.
Oakland's Electromancy bring a technical precision to black metal that sets them apart from the Bay Area pack — formed in 2020, they channel the city's intellectual extremity into densely constructed, technically demanding compositions.
New York's Elefantkiller blend crossover thrash with straight-up thrash metal into something loud, chaotic, and absurdly fun — the band's name says everything about their commitment to over-the-top heaviness since 2013.
Highstown, New Jersey's Elegia have been delivering traditional power and speed metal since 2010, their songs built around soaring melodic ambition and the kind of riff gallop that lives somewhere between Running Wild and Riot.
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