New York thrashers who launched in 2015 with a lean, stripped-down attack that keeps the genre's classic aggression front and center. Their name mirrors their style — sharp edges, no fat.

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.

Yonkers, New York's Earthbound A.D. has been writing traditional heavy metal since 2011, drawing on the New York area's long metallic lineage with the kind of no-nonsense approach the genre has always rewarded.

A New York outfit formed in 2023 that drags sludge's tar-thick riffing into the grinding momentum of thrash, built on punishing tempos and walls of distortion that rarely relent.

New York's Eat Lead formed in 2019 to play the kind of crossover thrash that sounds like it was raised on hardcore matinees and late-night thrash tapes — fast, mean, and allergic to subtlety.

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.

Cortland, New York's Ecliptic Vision have been grinding away at straight-ahead death metal since 2016 — no frills, no distractions, just the genre's core brutality done with conviction.

Brooklyn's Edenic Past bring an experimental edge to brutal death metal, formed in 2020 with a technical framework that pushes against the subgenre's more rigid conventions.

Brooklyn's Eggnogg has been doing something genuinely strange with doom metal since 2010 — psychedelic in the truest sense, dissolving the edges of heavy riffs into hazy, tripped-out ritual. An odd name for a band that is anything but ordinary.