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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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A Los Angeles act sharing the Earth name since 1993, this heavy/stoner outfit operates in far more traditional territory than their Washington namesakes, delivering riff-forward metal built for the road.
Enid, Oklahoma's Earth A.D. has kept thrash metal alive in the middle of the country since 1998, representing a stubborn persistence that the plains states metal underground knows well.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels atmospheric black metal and black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2016, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
A sludge metal project born in Richmond, Virginia in 2023, Earth Burial joins one of the East Coast's most consistently fertile heavy underground cities with a sound built from layers of slow, oppressive riffing.
Greeley, Colorado's Earth Burnt Black takes the patient structures of doom and runs them through a progressive filter, producing something more complex and winding than either genre demands on its own — active since 2011.
Asheville's Earth Collider came together in 2019 to deliver tight, ripping speed and thrash metal from a mountain town that punches far above its weight in the underground. Expect fast riffs and no wasted space.
San Francisco's Earth Crawler was formed in 2017 at the crossroads of Bay Area thrash and the groove metal tradition, carrying a city's legacy of hard-edged riffing into well-worn but welcome territory.
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.
Appleton, Wisconsin's Earth Dies Screaming have been running a death/thrash hybrid since 2017 — the kind of band that sounds like it should be playing a sweaty, too-loud venue in a college town at midnight.
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