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Cadaver was formed in Norway in 1988 by guitarist Anders Odden and drummer Ole Bjerkebakke, releasing Hallucinating Anxiety in 1990, widely regarded as the first Norwegian death metal album. The band returned as Cadaver Inc. in 1999, releasing the aggressive and conceptually irreverent album Discipline in 2001, before dropping the Inc. suffix and releasing Necrosis in 2004. Odden reformed the band again in 2019 with Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren, releasing Edder & Bile in 2020.
A raw black metal and dark ambient project from Roy, Washington, Cadaver Rite operates in the harshest corners of the underground, pairing abrasive black metal with cold, ceremonial ambient passages.
Black-death metal band from Lempaala, Finland, formed in 2019. They channel vampiric darkness through a fusion of black and death metal.
Gothic black metal artist from Biella, Italy, formed in 2002 by the former vocalist of Opera IX. Cadaveria has built a distinctive solo career blending theatrical darkness with black metal ferocity over two decades.
Black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk in the oil-producing region of western Siberia, formed in 2017. Cadaveris channels dark black metal from the frozen Khanty-Mansi heartland.
Black-speed metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2021. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with the velocity of speed metal from eastern Finland.
Blackened thrash act from Warsaw, active since 2011. Cadavra delivers raw, aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
A progressive and technical death metal band from Champaign, Illinois, Caecus was active from 2012 before splitting up, developing a sound that merged intricate, shifting compositions with death metal brutality.
Black-death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2011. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the French capital.
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