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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Tampa's Cemetery emerged from the same Florida death metal tradition that built the genre's founding mythology — thick, swampy riffs, cavernous production, and a death-is-everywhere aesthetic.
Cemetery Dave is a doom and stoner metal act from Boston, Massachusetts, blending the slow, heavy riff worship of traditional doom with the fuzz-soaked psychedelia of stoner rock, evoking Sabbathian oppression with a hazy, retro-tinted groove.
Black-death-doom metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2019. They blend black metal darkness with death-doom weight from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Cemetery Frost is a death-doom band from New Orleans, Louisiana, fusing the glacial tempos and crushing weight of doom metal with the guttural density of old-school death metal, producing a slow-motion devastation amplified by the swampy heaviness of the New Orleans underground.
Cenobite is a death/thrash metal band from Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the Hellraiser mythos and combining the riff-forward speed of thrash with the heavier tonal palette of early death metal in the tradition of Possessed and early Death.
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.
Centaurus was a doom metal band from Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. The group is documented on Metal Archives and released material during their active period, including a split release and a demo cassette titled Awakening recorded in Franca. The band was unsigned and operated independently throughout their existence before splitting up.
Centennial is a doom metal band from the ABC Paulista region of greater São Paulo, Brazil, with roots tracing back to 1995. The band plays traditional doom metal that departs from the guttural vocal approach common in extreme metal, instead incorporating elements from the classic doom school, and released an album in 1999. The act has remained unsigned and independent throughout its history.
Doom and stoner metal band from Tikob near Helsingor, Denmark, formed in 2018. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden riffs and crushing grooves from the northern Zealand coast.
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