Cleveland's Embalmer carry on with the straightforward death metal tradition that has always suited Ohio's no-frills underground. Since 2016, they've delivered unadorned, morgue-scented brutality without pretense.

A fresh arrival from Dayton's underground, Emerald Cauldron brew classic heavy metal and power metal together with an old-school sense of drama, conjuring something that feels pulled from a different era of the Midwest scene.

Akron's Emerald Rage hit hard at the intersection of speed, power, and traditional heavy metal, delivering the kind of fist-pumping anthems and fleet-footed riffing that recalls the best of the Ohio metal underground.

Columbus, Ohio's Encenathrakh dismantle death metal from the inside out, fusing avant-garde dissonance with technical brutal ferocity into something genuinely unsettling. Since 2013, they've occupied a singular, confrontational space at the extreme edge of the genre.

Dayton, Ohio's Engine of Chaos launched in 2023 with a heavy metal sound shaped by the industrial heartland tradition of no-nonsense riffing and direct songwriting. Their music channels the raw, unglamorous energy of a city that has always prized substance over surface.

Dayton's Engraved Darkness draws on the bleakest traditions of black and death metal, weaving cold dissonance and sepulchral atmosphere into a sound that feels excavated from the Ohio underground.

Akron's Enhailer drifts through the hazy overlap of stoner, doom, and sludge, conjuring thick, feedback-drenched riffs and narcotic tempos suited to the Rust Belt's industrial melancholy.

Cedarville, Ohio's Enslaved has been grinding out thrash-inflected death metal since 1992, representing the persistence of Midwest extreme metal through decades of shifts in the underground landscape.

Akron's Enthrall has carried the torch for Ohio death metal since 1993, delivering the blunt-force punishment that rust belt underground scenes tend to produce — workmanlike, heavy, and uninterested in trends. Decades in without losing momentum.