Aurora, Illinois outfit En Masse arrived in 2020 with a collision of thrash, death metal, and hardcore that hits with the frantic urgency of a pit catching fire mid-set.

Enabler is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin metallic hardcore band formed in 2009, led by guitarist and songwriter Jeff Lohrber. The band fuses thrash, death metal, punk, and hardcore into a confrontational, emotionally raw sound that earned them placement on Southern Lord Records for their breakthrough album All Hail the Void (2012). A second full-length, La Fin Absolue Du Monde (2014), followed on Creator Destructor/Earsplit Compound, with the band releasing material across multiple labels and formats.

Allentown's Enamored thread progressive ambition through black metal's cold framework, building something nuanced and searching that the Pennsylvania underground rarely produces.

Albany's Enantiodrome take their name from a Jungian concept of reversal, and their progressive death metal follows suit — complex, contradictory, and deliberately unsettled since 2016.

One of American underground metal's most deliberately abrasive entities, Enbilulugugal have been weaponizing raw black metal and harsh noise since 2001 with a prolific output that prioritizes volume over accessibility.

Los Angeles black-death outfit Encased pull Viking metal's mythological weight into their sound alongside more brutal death metal elements, a broad extreme metal canvas that has kept them active since 2014.

Fresh out of Lexington in 2024, Encavement deliver slam-brutal deathcore with maximum low-end trauma, the kind of guttural Kentucky heaviness that sounds like it was conceived in a cave and intends to stay there.

Self-described "Cosmic Enlighten Metal." Originally from Denver before relocating. Critically acclaimed debut 'Journey to Enlightenment' put them on the map in 2014.

New York's Enceladus deals in cold, unrelenting black metal, channeling the icy ferocity the name — Saturn's frozen moon — implies. Their approach is stark and atmospheric, rooted firmly in the genre's harshest traditions.