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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Cleveland's Caveman deliver unadorned death metal rooted in the early-90s American tradition — chunky riffs, blunt-force drumming, and guttural vocals that prioritize brute impact over complexity.
Miami's Caveman Cult play savage, bestial black/death metal combining South American war metal ferocity with Florida death metal density — relentless blastbeats, chainsaw-thick tremolo riffs, and zero regard for melody.
Brutal death metal project from Russia, formed in 2025. Cavemode delivers cavernous, punishing death metal.
Oakland, Maryland's Cavern blend progressive metal's structural ambition with sludge heaviness and thrash metal's rhythmic aggression, producing a genre-spanning sound that shifts between cerebral complexity and sheer sonic weight.
Philadelphia's Cavern Womb deal in suffocating, cavernous death metal that prioritizes density and darkness over speed, sitting in the tradition of Incantation-influenced death metal as an exercise in claustrophobia.
Death-groove metal band from Zurita in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2009. They combine death metal aggression with heavy grooves from the northern Spanish coast.
Denver's Cavernous combine death and doom into slow, churning dirges built around crushing downtuned riffs, drawing on the death-doom lineage running from diSEMBOWELMENT through Evoken.
Minneapolis's Cavernous Maw bring a brutal, pit-focused death metal attack rooted in dense riffwork and uncompromising low-end punishment.
Death-grind-industrial hybrid from Sundsvall on the Norrland coast, active since 2013. Cavevomit delivers a chaotic blend of extreme subgenres from central northern Sweden.
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