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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)
05/21 @ 170 Russell, Melbourne
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Evidence (2023)
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New York's Elks straddle the line between traditional heavy metal and sludge, pulling riff-craft from both traditions to create something that hits with genuine weight while maintaining melody's grip.
Seattle's Elks Blood have been grinding out death/thrash since 2010 with the Pacific Northwest's characteristic intensity — unrelenting riff patterns, furious tempos, and a sound that owes equal debts to both parent genres.
Phoenix's Ellefson — fronted by former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson — channels old-school thrash and speed metal energy with the authority of someone who helped define the genre in the first place.
Mansfield's Ellimist bring a cerebral edge to death metal, layering progressive architecture over brutal foundations — songs that shift and evolve in ways that reward close listening rather than just overwhelm with raw force.
Des Moines' Elliot Klimowski operates as a one-person melodic death metal entity, crafting music that finds genuine feeling within the genre's aggressive framework — a solo project with the compositional ambition of a full band.
Devastating Progressive / Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.
Kenosha, Wisconsin's Ellis approach progressive metal with a songwriter's sensibility, favoring dynamic shifts and textural depth over wankery, building patient compositions that earn their complexity.
Marietta, South Carolina's Elly have been delivering traditional heavy metal since 2012 with an unpretentious directness — the kind of band more interested in a great riff than in reinventing anything.
Dallas's Eloi blend groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness with thrash's aggression, a combination that fits the Texas tradition of metal that wants to move the room as much as destroy it.
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