Greeley, Colorado's Earth Burnt Black takes the patient structures of doom and runs them through a progressive filter, producing something more complex and winding than either genre demands on its own — active since 2011.

Asheville's Earth Collider came together in 2019 to deliver tight, ripping speed and thrash metal from a mountain town that punches far above its weight in the underground. Expect fast riffs and no wasted space.

San Francisco's Earth Crawler was formed in 2017 at the crossroads of Bay Area thrash and the groove metal tradition, carrying a city's legacy of hard-edged riffing into well-worn but welcome territory.

Earth Crisis are a metallic hardcore band from Syracuse, New York, formed in 1989 around vocalist Karl Buechner and guitarist Scott Crouse. Combining hardcore's aggression with death metal heaviness and an unwavering commitment to straight edge and vegan ideology, they helped define the metalcore genre and the vegan straight edge movement with albums such as Destroy the Machines (1995) and Gomorrah's Season Ends (1996). Sociologist Ross Haenfler credited them as 'the face of straight edge throughout the 1990s'; after a hiatus from 2001 to 2007, they have remained active.

Appleton, Wisconsin's Earth Dies Screaming have been running a death/thrash hybrid since 2017 — the kind of band that sounds like it should be playing a sweaty, too-loud venue in a college town at midnight.

Out of Vacaville, California, Earth Down formed in 2015 at the intersection of death metal's brutality, metalcore's crunch, and hardcore's urgency — a heavier-than-average take on a genre crossover that rarely lacks intensity.

Grass Valley, California's Earth Exit arrived in 2021 with the crossover thrash/hardcore hybrid fully in their blood — raw, fast, and shaped by the same Bay Area-adjacent tradition that made the genre what it is.

Portland's Earth to Ashes has been delivering traditional heavy metal since 2014 with the kind of earnest conviction the genre requires — no gimmicks, just riffs and the long shadow of the bands who invented this sound.

An Austin black metal project that surfaced in 2022, Earth Weary Twin sounds like it belongs to a colder latitude — raw, desolate, and shaped by the grimmer end of the genre's emotional spectrum.