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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Madness (2017)
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Rock Springs, Wyoming's Enord Khan crafts expansive drone and doom metal from one of the most isolated corners of the American West, translating vast empty landscapes into suffocating, hypnotic low-frequency ritual.
Palm Desert's Enrage runs on the fuel of classic speed and thrash metal, channeling the southern California desert's blistering energy into tight, riff-driven aggression with old-school urgency.
Muskegon's Enrapture represents West Michigan's death metal contingent, delivering punishing mid-tempo riffs and guttural vocals rooted in the no-frills, brutality-first approach of the Great Lakes underground.
Memphis' Enraptured blends the visceral speed of grindcore with death metal's tonal punishment, carrying on the Bluff City's tradition of uncompromising extreme music with short, ferocious song structures.
Huntington Beach's Enrot scrapes corrosive thrash metal from the Southern California coast, forging sharp-edged riffs and aggressive tempos in the tradition of the genre's classic Bay Area and SoCal forebears.
Cleveland, Tennessee's Enruined uses progressive death metal as a vehicle for structural complexity and emotional darkness, threading intricate arrangements through a core of heavy, rhythmically demanding brutality.
Eugene's Ensamble delivers Pacific Northwest thrash with a tightly wound, riff-forward attack, tapping the energy of Oregon's underground metal community with classically-influenced speed and aggression.
Orlando's Ensanguined arrived in 2023 fusing the maniacal velocity of speed metal with black metal's icy malevolence — a blood-soaked debut into Florida's extremity-rich underground.
Fresno's Ensepulcher deals in death metal with a deliberately sepulchral character — cavernous production and mid-paced, doom-inflected riffs that evoke old crypts rather than speed or technical flash.
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