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Expiration Date

Seattle, WA, US · 2016–present · active
Seattle's Expiration Date have been melding melodic death metal with thrash metal since 2016, drawing on both the city's experimental spirit and the northern European melodic death tradition. Their sound balances memorable melodic hooks against the technical drive and tempo of the thrash backbone beneath them.
Death MetalMelodic Death MetalThrash Metal

Expire

Troisdorf, DE · 2009–present · active
Death/thrash metal act from Troisdorf near Bonn, Germany, delivering aggressive crossover extremity since 2009. Their name captures the finality and cessation that drives their relentless metal assault.
Death MetalThrash Metal

Expiring Vociferation

Zhigulevsk, RU · 2015–present · active
Zhigulevsk-based brutal death metal, death metal, and deathcore act, active since 2015 delivering technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Brutal Death MetalDeath MetalDeathcore

Expirium

Koprivnica, HR · 1996–present · active
Death, groove, and thrash metal band from Koprivnica, Croatia with roots dating to 1996. They are among the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Croatian north.
Death MetalGroove MetalThrash Metal

Expletive

Shreveport, LA, US · 2025–present · active
Shreveport, Louisiana's Expletive arrived in 2025 armed with brutal death metal brutality and grindcore's economical fury — a pairing that amplifies both to extremes. Shreveport has long existed in the shadow of Louisiana's better-known metal cities, and Expletive sound like a band who've internalized that chip on the shoulder.
Brutal Death MetalDeath MetalGrindcore

Explicit Hate

Montpellier, FR · 2012–present · active
Death metal band from Montpellier, France active since 2012. They deliver aggressive death metal from the Languedoc coast.
Death MetalThrash Metal

Exposed Guts

Bochum, DE · 2003–present · active
Brutal death metal act from the Bochum/Hamm/Duisburg axis of Germany's Ruhr Valley, delivering graphically visceral extremity since 2003. Their two-decade career of uncompromising brutality makes them a veteran force in the German brutal death metal underground.
Brutal Death MetalDeath Metal

Expository

Västerås, SE · 2014–present · active
Västerås-based death metal and melodic death metal act, active since 2014 delivering HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Death MetalMelodic Death Metal

Expulser

Lavras, BR · 2023–present · active
Expulser is a death/thrash metal band from Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil, originally formed in 1989 and regarded as a cult act in the Brazilian underground extreme metal scene. Their debut album "The Unholy One" was released in 1992 on Cogumelo Records and has since been reissued multiple times; after disbanding in 2004, the band was reformed by original bassist Alessandro Lima in 2015 and has remained active since.
Death MetalThrash Metal

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