Out of Shenandoah, New York, Eayondig is a brand-new black metal act formed in 2024 whose name is as unusual as their chosen corner of the Hudson Valley — raw, rural, and rooted in the underground.

Buffalo's Eira threads together blackened death and progressive metal into something genuinely restless since forming in 2022. The band's willingness to pull from multiple extreme subgenres at once keeps things unpredictable and sharp.

New York's Embracing Carpathian Mourning draw on Eastern European black metal's epic and foreboding qualities, channeling the Carpathian mystique through an American underground lens. Active since 2022, they pursue a distinctly atmospheric and mythological strain of the style.

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.

Named for the Japanese smoke demon, New York's Enenra BC conjures blackened death metal steeped in occult malevolence and suffocating atmosphere since 2018. Their sound draws equally from the crushing weight of death metal and the cold, nihilistic darkness of black metal.

Named for the Sumerian king of Uruk, New York's Enmerkar weaves atmospheric black metal into vast, myth-laden soundscapes — cold tremolo passages and ambient textures evoking ancient and forgotten civilizations.

Buffalo's harsh winters seem to seep directly into Enthauptung's atmospheric black metal — frigid, bleak, and expansive in equal measure, the project wraps raw black metal fury in layers of cold ambience that feel distinctly like a Lake Erie storm. Active since 2014.

New York City's Ephemera bend avant-garde experimentation into black metal's skeletal framework, producing disorienting, boundary-pushing music from the Brooklyn underground since 2018.

New York's Epistasis take their name from a genetics term describing how one gene suppresses another — a fitting metaphor for experimental black metal that distorts and subverts its own conventions. Formed in 2023, they're already pushing the genre into unsettled territory.