Portland's Entoxikutioner inject thrash metal with a potent dose of punk aggression, forming a crossover hybrid since 2015 that is fast, filthy, and uninterested in nuance — the kind of band that makes small venue shows feel genuinely dangerous.

Pe Ell, Washington — population barely over 600 — has been home to Entrain's black metal since 1994, a rural isolation that feeds directly into their sound: raw, expansive, and shaped by the vast quiet of deep Pacific Northwest timber country.

Omaha's Entranced has been weaving progressive gothic and doom metal together since 2021, building a sound that's as emotionally nuanced as it is heavy — mournful melodies, shifting dynamics, and a songwriting sensibility that favors atmosphere over brute force.

Chicago's Entrancemperium channels ferocious, orthodox black metal through a project that started in 2024 but sounds rooted in decades of genre tradition — raw production, relentless hostility, and a devotion to black metal's most uncompromising principles.

Formed in 2021, Entrantment operates in the borderland between black and death metal where both genres' most savage qualities converge — the icy malevolence of the former pressed hard against the visceral brutality of the latter, with no territory conceded to either.

Franklinville, New Jersey's Entrapment has been delivering old-school death metal since 2010 with an authenticity that traces directly back to the genre's late-eighties and early-nineties roots — murky production, serpentine riffs, and a genuine reverence for the craft.

Death/thrash upstarts from Rochelle Park, New Jersey, Entrenched hit the ground running in 2024 with a sound that splits the difference between old-school brutality and riff-driven thrash aggression.

Arvada, Colorado's most viscerally named act, Entrenched in Epidermal Slippage have been delivering Colorado Brutal Death Metal pulverization since 2017, built on grinding blast work and grotesque low-register riffing.

Hailing from the Sierra Nevada foothills of Pine Grove, California, Entropathy bring a classic heavy metal ethos to an area better known for pine trees than power chords, formed in 2019.