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Death metal band from Cambridge, England, formed in 2019. Celestial Sanctuary have built a strong reputation in the UK death metal underground with their old-school, crushing approach.
Technical death metal act from Norway, formed in 2023. Celestial Scourge brings punishing, technically demanding death metal to the Norwegian extreme scene.
Death-doom-stoner act from Nijmegen, with renewed Bandcamp activity since 2020 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Celestial Season is a veteran Dutch doom act, pioneering atmospheric death-doom in the Netherlands.
Portland's Celestial Serpent combine black and death metal into a dense, riff-heavy assault emphasizing darkness and malevolence over technical showboating.
Celestial Sovereignty is a progressive black/death metal band from Modesto, California. They blend the sinister atmosphere of black metal, the brutality of death metal, and the compositional complexity of progressive metal into multi-layered compositions.
Celestial Theory is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Mercedes, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. They fuse death metal's brutality with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility and orchestral arrangements to create layered, cinematic compositions.
Celestial Wizard from Denver blends the occult heaviness of death metal with the anthemic grandeur of power metal and traditional heavy metal, producing a theatrical and heavy sound with equal parts brutality and melody. Colorado's high-altitude isolation lends the material a cosmic, expansive quality.
Melodic death-power metal band from Aix-en-Provence, France. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with power metal hooks from the Provençal heartland.
Cell Intruder is a death metal band from Louisville, Kentucky, trading in the churning, downtuned riff structures and guttural vocal delivery of old-school American death metal, with a murky, mid-paced approach that favors atmosphere and groove over speed.
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