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Philadelphia duo splicing black metal harshness with the expansive melancholy of post-rock, channeling nihilistic themes through a sound caught between blast-beat severity and atmospheric drift.
Capgrass was a black metal band from Buenos Aires that released their debut EP Reflections in June 2014, a six-track recording produced and mastered by Fernando Muiños with drum collaboration from Manuel Matarasso. The band operated within the underground Buenos Aires black metal scene before splitting up.
Capiroto is a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band plays raw, aggressive black metal with lyrical themes of vengeance, diabolism, violence, and chaos, and released the EP "Pentagrama Tenebroso" in May 2023, recorded at Umbralian Studios in Rio de Janeiro.
Capita Septem et Cornva Decem is a black metal band from Santiago, Chile whose track and album titles are rendered entirely in Roman numerals referencing chapters and verses from the Book of Revelation. Their debut album XIII: I-XVIII, released in April 2018, consists of six tracks spanning nearly 48 minutes of dense, unhurried black metal.
New Jersey black metal and crust outfit emerging from Clementon in 2018, fusing the raw aggression of crust punk with the cold savagery of black metal.
Symphonic black metal project from Lviv in western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Capitollium merges orchestral grandeur with black metal from the cultural capital of western Ukraine.
Miami-based raw black metal duo formed by two Canadian musicians, channeling Satanic and war-obsessed themes through stripped-down, uncompromising rawness before dissolving.
Black metal project from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver dark, atmospheric black metal steeped in occult themes from the industrial Ruhr Valley.
Black metal project from Wrocław, formed in 2025. Capricornus channels raw black metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
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