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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Evidence (2023)
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Operating out of Allegany, Elegiac is a black metal project formed in 2021 that leans into raw emotion and atmospheric density — music shaped by small-town isolation and the genre's oldest instincts.
Maryland's Elegy of Empire arrived in 2023 with atmospheric and depressive black metal steeped in grandiose desolation, their name perfectly telegraphing the genre's obsession with ruin and historical collapse.
Salinas, California's Elektrix have been churning out meat-and-potatoes thrash metal since 2015, the agricultural heartland of the Central Valley providing an unlikely but appropriate backdrop for no-frills aggression.
Hard-driving industrial metal from Tyler.
A Tampa black metal act with roots going back to 2003, Element of Eclipse carries the legacy of Florida's extreme metal scene into the black metal underground, two decades deep and still active.
Washington State's Element of Fate bring sweeping orchestration to traditional heavy metal, pairing symphonic grandeur with classic metal structures in a project formed in 2022 that aims squarely for the epic.
Out of Nags Head on the Outer Banks, Elephant play epic heavy metal shaped by the wide Atlantic horizons of their coastal North Carolina home — formed in 2018, they bring genuine weight to a style that rewards it.
Named for the ancient Greek city of sacred mysteries, Reno's Eleusis have practiced their black metal rites since 2015 in the Nevada desert — a fitting landscape for music that evokes both desolation and dark reverence.
Baker City, Oregon's Eleven .44 play hard rock-flavored heavy metal from one of the most remote corners of the American West, a band shaped by small-town grit and formed in 2018 far from any major scene.
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