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The Bestiary (2025)
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Live In North America (2021)
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Emperors and Fools (2022)
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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.
Long Island's Epitome started as a thrash act and expanded into heavier, more groove-oriented territory over time, tracing a trajectory familiar to New York's durable metal underground. Active since 2006, they've developed a sound that honors both phases of their evolution.
New York's Eternal Ascent combine symphonic grandeur with power metal's soaring melodicism, constructing anthemic compositions built for arenas and imagined medieval battlefields alike. Active since 2019, they pursue unapologetic epic bombast.
Brooklyn's Eternal Black smoke out with skull-crushing riffs anchored in the doom and stoner traditions, their sound carrying the weight of New York City asphalt and late nights. Since 2015 they have been a fixture of the borough's heavy underground.
Rochester's Eternal Crypt bridge melodic black metal, folk metal, and power metal into a layered style that draws on ancient mythology without abandoning the aggression at the core. Active since 2018, they are among upstate New York's more genre-restless acts.
New York's Eternian arrived in 2024 with melodic power metal that reaches for the sky — big hooks, layered harmonics, and a sense of adventure that makes the genre's ambitions feel earned.
Rising from the coastal edge of Long Island in 2022, Ethereal Frost channel windswept black metal rooted in icy riffs and bleak atmosphere. The band's raw approach recalls the stripped-down fury of Scandinavian second-wave forebears transplanted to the northeastern shore.
New York's Eulogist arrived in 2021 crafting black-death metal with a funereal gravity, weaving death metal's cruelty through black metal's atmosphere of irreversible loss. Their sound reads like the final rites delivered in a language no living tongue should speak.
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