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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Creptum is a black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2003 after operating briefly as Nekros. Signed to Drakkar Productions South America, the band released their debut full-length Of Lies, Curses and Blood in 2016, followed by the EP Reborn in Flames (2017) and the sophomore album VAMA in 2020, a nine-track record drawing on occult and literary themes.
Ohio's Crepuscular Night channel the coldest and most desolate strains of depressive black metal into minimalist, emotionally harrowing compositions. Their music sits in the bleakest corner of the American underground black metal scene.
Salt Lake City's Crepusculum combine the relentless grind of grindcore with death metal's morbid density, emerging from Utah's small but ferocious extreme metal community. Their output is fast, brutal, and uncompromising.
Black metal project from Bratislava, formed in 2020. Cresset — an archaic word for a burning torch — channels raw black metal from the Slovak capital.
Blackened death metal band from Gjøvik in central Norway, active since 2004. Crest of Darkness has spent over two decades crafting sinister extreme metal from the shores of Lake Mjøsa.
Los Angeles black metal act Crevasse craft bleak, frost-bitten compositions in the underground tradition, filtering darkness through an urban Southern California lens. Their work pursues raw atmosphere over polish or accessibility.
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Blackened death metal project from Moscow, formed in 2025. Crimson Crown channels dark aggression from the Russian capital.
Atmospheric black metal band from Southampton, England, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, Crimson Darkness are veterans of the English atmospheric black metal scene.
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