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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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Melodic death metal with a grim undercurrent, Elisha work within a tradition of layering clean melodic hooks over down-tuned brutality, finding an emotional resonance that goes beyond simple aggression.
Portland's Elitist refuse to stay in one lane — their sound drags sludge's suffocating weight through grindcore velocity and crust punk fury, occasionally dropping into straight death metal savagery without warning.
Anaheim's Elixir have been keeping the power metal flame burning in Southern California since 2008, dealing in soaring vocals, galloping double bass, and anthemic choruses built for arenas but honed in clubs.
Pittsburgh's Elizabeth Short, named after the Black Dahlia murder victim, channel grotesque history into their goregrind — a band as fixated on true crime's darkest chapters as they are on blasting drums and gargled vocals.
Worcester's Elizabory blend gothic metal's romantic melancholy with black metal's cold fury, a combination that arrived fully formed when the band started in 2023 and already feels like it has its own haunted aesthetic.
Cleveland's Elk Blood carry the Rust Belt's bleakness directly into their black metal, where the cold industrial sprawl of northern Ohio seeps into every tremolo run and blast beat.
Denver's Elk Hunter arrived in 2025 dragging metalcore's angular energy through sludge's mire, the band's mile-high origin reflected in a suffocating, high-altitude heaviness.
Out of Medford, Oregon, Elk Witch conjure stoner metal with a particularly Pacific Northwest character — wooded and fuzz-drenched, like a riff being played at the edge of a forest at dusk.
Rochester's Elkhound emerged in 2024 with sludge metal that favors the slow grind over flash, building tension through sheer heaviness and the kind of pacing that lets each riff breathe before crushing you under it.
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