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Findlay, Ohio's Ebullism takes the technical death metal template and applies it with clinical precision, a 2020-formed act that favors surgical complexity over brute force, even when those two things end up sounding the same.
Columbus, Ohio's Echushkya emerged in 2019 with a focus on atmospheric black metal that leans inward — cold, immersive, and dedicated to the subgenre's more contemplative possibilities.
Cincinnati's Eisen Geist fuses black metal's malevolence with the propulsive, reckless energy of thrash, a combination the band has been honing since 2019. The result is nasty, fast, and shot through with a distinctly Germanic grimness.
Dayton, Ohio's Ejaculating Rektal Squid Pussy commits fully to the brutality of goregrind and brutal death metal, a project formed in 2022 with no pretense toward subtlety. Cavernous gurgles, blast beats, and maximum grotesquerie.
Cincinnati's Electric Citizen bring a vintage sensibility to heavy and stoner metal, anchored by soulful vocals and riffs that feel pulled from a forgotten corner of the 1970s rock underground — formed in 2014 but sounding timeless.
Named with appropriate menace, Lakewood, Ohio's Electric Lucifer play stoner-soaked doom metal with a Sabbath-worshipping dedication — heavy, languid, and thoroughly infernal since 2013.
Worthington, Ohio's Eleventh Hour play straight death metal under a name shared with several other acts — formed in 2011, they bring a Midwestern directness to the genre without any of the melodic compromise.
Cleveland's Elk Blood carry the Rust Belt's bleakness directly into their black metal, where the cold industrial sprawl of northern Ohio seeps into every tremolo run and blast beat.
Ohio's Elusive Travel have been moving at doom/death's agonizingly deliberate pace since 2001, letting despair accumulate bar by bar — one of the longer-running acts in a subgenre that rewards patience with weight.
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