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Cellar Vessel is a progressive death metal band from Bozeman, Montana, combining the technical complexity and unconventional song structures of progressive metal with the crushing aggression and guttural extremity of death metal.
CellarWitch is a Portland, Oregon band operating at the intersection of black metal and brutal death metal, fusing icy tremolo aggression with pulverizing low-end brutality and a chaotic, dissonant approach that resists clean genre categorization.
Symphonic death metal act from Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border in Russia's Far East, active since 2016. Cellborn merges orchestral elements with death metal from one of the most remote metal scenes on Earth.
Melodic death metal act from Prešov in eastern Slovakia, formed in 2022. Cellearius delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Šariš region.
Celtic Frost formed in Zürich, Switzerland in June 1984 when guitarist Thomas Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Eric Ain dissolved their previous band Hellhammer and rebuilt with more ambitious musical goals. Their first two records, Morbid Tales (1984) and To Mega Therion (1985), were foundational texts for extreme metal, directly influencing the development of black, death, and doom metal. After a long hiatus, the band reformed and released the critically acclaimed Monotheist in 2006 before disbanding permanently in 2008 when Fischer departed to form Triptykon.
Melodic death-power-thrash act from Udine in Friuli, formed in 2020. Celtic Hills blends folk-tinged melodies with aggressive extreme metal in a genre-crossing approach.
Cemetarian is a death metal band from Houston, Texas, working in the filthy, cavernous tradition of bands like Incantation and Autopsy, favoring thick production and lurching, morbid riff patterns rooted in early-1990s death metal aesthetics.
Cemetary is a heavy metal band from Center Line, Michigan, playing traditional metal with a no-frills Midwest sensibility rooted in classic hard rock and heavy metal, built around clean vocals and mid-tempo riffing.
Cemeterum is a death metal band from Ohio steeped in the morbid, old-school tradition, favoring heavy downtuned riffing and murky production over technical showmanship, with a sound that leans toward the death-doom fringe of early death metal.
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