Streetsboro, Ohio's Entity of Extinction weaponizes technical death metal and grindcore together, pushing both toward their logical extremes — the precision of the former sharpened by the speed and fury of the latter. Active since 2014 and unrelenting throughout.

Toledo's Entrenched fuse death metal's relentless weight with hardcore's confrontational energy, carving out a pit-ready sound since their 2024 formation.

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Columbus, Ohio's Epod have been delivering death metal in the city's quietly productive underground since 2012, an act that thrives on consistency and the communal energy of a scene that punches well above its national profile. Their straightforward approach keeps the focus on the riff and the groove.

Cleveland death/thrash metal outfit Eradicyst grind out suffocating riffs with the blue-collar tenacity the city is known for, formed in 2019 and feeding off Ohio's thriving extreme underground.

Columbus, Ohio thrash/speed/death metal band casting a wide net across extreme metal's most kinetic traditions, blending the brutality of death metal with the velocity of thrash and speed.

Columbus, Ohio's Eris blends gothic atmosphere with death metal brutality, wrapping funereal melodic sensibility around downtuned heaviness in a way that feels both elegiac and aggressive. Formed in 2019, the project channels the goddess of discord into music that holds beauty and destruction in unresolved tension.

Named for the malevolent spirit of Germanic folklore, Columbus, Ohio's Erlking draws on classic heavy metal tradition with a mythic weight that matches its namesake. Formed in 2023, the young band reaches back to the genre's foundational vocabulary — riff-driven songs, soaring leads, and a taste for the arcane.

Columbus, Ohio's Erthbrnr began in the chaos of hardcore and crust punk before migrating toward a darker, heavier convergence of black metal, death metal, and sludge. Over more than a decade the band has undergone a genuine stylistic evolution, using each phase as both rejection and extension of the one before.