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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft cold, intense black metal from the industrial heart of the Ruhr Valley.
Italian black metal project formed in 2020. Cenere — Italian for 'ash' — evokes themes of destruction and rebirth through atmospheric black metal.
Progressive extreme metal band from Jena, Germany, formed in 2021. They blend black metal, death metal, doom, and progressive elements into an ambitious, genre-defying sound.
Cenotafio is a black/death metal duo from Temuco, formed in 2015 by guitarist/vocalist Daniel Hermosilla and drummer/vocalist Patricio Kusnir, both veterans of the southern Chilean underground through prior projects Odrum and Invehertex. Their debut demo "El Encierro de las Grandes Revelaciones" (2015) established a cavernous, slow-burning sound that carried through their debut full-length "La Fatídica Excrecencia de la Subtierra" (Memento Mori, 2017), the sophomore "Larvae Tedeum Teratos" (Blood Harvest, 2019), and the 2026 third album released on vinyl through Demoniac Productions.
Cenotaph is a thrash metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, delivering Bay Area-influenced thrash built on crunching riff patterns and melodic soloing, with a career reflecting a consistent commitment to classic American thrash values.
Blackened death-thrash band from Gradisca d'Isonzo in Gorizia province, formed in 2019. Censura delivers a volatile mix of extreme subgenres from the Slovenian border region of Friuli.
Centralia is a black metal band from Freehold, New Jersey, named after the famously burning Pennsylvania ghost town and playing atmospheric black metal that evokes industrial desolation and subterranean dread.
Atmospheric black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. Cepheide craft vast, immersive atmospheric black metal that has earned recognition in the French and international underground.
Atmospheric black metal project from the seaside town of Katwijk aan Zee, South Holland, active since 2012. Cepheus — named after the celestial constellation — channels cosmic atmospheres through expansive black metal.
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