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Panic (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Grey Everlasting (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Greed/Conjure Life (2024)
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Pennsylvania's Eld Fen is a progressive doom outfit formed in 2024, arriving with a sound that rewards patience — slow, heavy passages that build and evolve with genuine structural thoughtfulness. A very new act with clear ambitions.
Philadelphia's Elderwyrm crawls through the fertile ground between stoner and doom metal since forming in 2022, the serpentine name matching a sound built on slow, coiling heaviness and fuzz-thick riffs. Classic Philly grit runs underneath the haze.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Electric Animal occupies an unusual crossroads between dungeon synth atmospherics and black metal ferocity, building dark, otherworldly soundscapes since 2012 that blur the line between ambiance and aggression.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's Electric Horsemen have been plowing through doom and sludge since 2006, their sound built on crushing, slow-motion riffs and the kind of rural grimness that comes from years in the underground.
Named after the occultist Éliphas Lévi, this Hazleton, Pennsylvania act fuses melodic black metal sweep with death metal's heaviest low-end, wrapping cold atmospheric passages around aggressive tremolo-driven assault.
Pittsburgh's Elizabeth Short, named after the Black Dahlia murder victim, channel grotesque history into their goregrind — a band as fixated on true crime's darkest chapters as they are on blasting drums and gargled vocals.
Philadelphia's Elwar channel black metal's combative spirit through a project that's been honed since 2020, the city's dense urban landscape providing an unlikely backdrop for music aimed at the void.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Elysion Fields have been working the thrash/groove intersection since 2011 — riffs with real momentum behind them, pushed forward by groove metal's locomotive sense of rhythm.
Pittsburgh's Emanon have been sharpening their speed and thrash attack since 2005, drawing on classic American aggression and razor-tight riffwork. The band moves with the propulsive urgency of old Bay Area thrash filtered through Steel City grit.
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