Long Island's Evighet — the Swedish word for 'eternity' — has been haunting the New York black metal underground out of Nesconset since 2020. The name's Scandinavian reference signals an act that takes the Norwegian and Swedish roots of the genre seriously, channeling that tradition through an American suburban lens.

Binghamton, New York's Evil Twin has been crafting atmospheric progressive metal since 2009, building a body of work in upstate New York's often-overlooked heavy music community. Their approach layers the emotional intricacy of progressive composition over metal's instrumental weight, with a sense of atmosphere that reflects the gray, contemplative character of the region.

Eviscerator emerged from Syracuse, New York in 2019, tapping into the no-nonsense death metal tradition that has long thrived in the industrial cities of the Northeast. Their stripped-back approach leans on crushing riffs and deliberate pacing, delivering a sound that feels rooted in the early American death metal underground.

Ex Eye is a New York-based experimental metal quartet formed in 2016 by saxophonist Colin Stetson, drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy), synthesist Shahzad Ismaily, and guitarist Toby Summerfield, signed to Relapse Records on the strength of their festival performances before releasing their first studio material. Their self-titled debut album (2017), recorded live at Ismaily's Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn, fuses noise, progressive metal, and avant-garde jazz into four sprawling, high-density compositions. The project represents a meeting point between Stetson's extended saxophone techniques and the percussive intensity of contemporary extreme metal.

Long Beach, New York's Execute Order 66 have been merging melodic death metal's twin-guitar melodicism with metalcore's breakdown-driven structure since 2011. Their name announces a certain irreverence, but their music is earnest in its hybridization of European melodeath aesthetics with the American metalcore tradition that shaped the Long Island scene.

Rochester's Explicit Death have been thrashing since 2018, representing the kind of straight-ahead, no-apologies New York metal that the state's upstate cities have quietly sustained for decades. Their Bandcamp handle adds "noise" to the equation, suggesting an abrasive edge beyond standard thrash convention.

Long Island's Exsanguinated traffic in death-doom, the slowest and most suffocating corner of extreme metal, building cavernous compositions since 2021 that weaponize tempo against the listener. The subgenre's combination of death metal heaviness and doom's crushing patience is a natural fit for a band clearly interested in maximum atmospheric impact.

New York's Eye of the Storm operate at the ambitious crossroads of progressive metal and melodic hard rock, active since 2016. Their music tends toward the layered and dynamic — compositional complexity balanced against melody — shaped by the technically demanding standards of the New York prog metal scene.

Eyes of the Sun is a doom and sludge metal trio from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2007 by vocalist/bassist Jeff Blanchard and guitarist Miguel De Jesus Jr., with drummer Chris O'Neil completing the lineup. The band endured significant setbacks when Hurricane Sandy destroyed their rehearsal space at Translator Audio in New York and wiped out their equipment, but ultimately signed to Metal Blade's Blacklight Media imprint and released their debut Chapter I (2018). Blanchard is also the owner of the Brooklyn metal bar Lucky 13 Saloon, a venue closely connected to New York's underground doom scene.