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Cavina is a heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014 by brothers Eduardo Cavina (vocals, bass) and Matteus Cavina (guitar). Their self-titled debut EP was released on August 28, 2014, recorded at Estúdio Lamparina in São Paulo, and conceived as the first act of a larger conceptual work exploring themes of society and human civilization.
New Jersey's Cavity Injector smash death metal and grindcore together in characteristic East Coast bursts of blastbeats, surgical riff brutality, and vocals pitched between guttural roar and grinding shriek.
Little Rock's Cavort Usurp mix black metal's raw intensity with hardcore's direct aggression and thrash metal's riff-forward energy, creating a crossover-adjacent sound that feels combative and street-level.
Italian black metal project formed in 2020. Cavronhead channels raw, unpolished black metal aggression.
Reading, Pennsylvania's Cavum pursue straightforward, grimly melodic black metal drawing on the European second-wave tradition — tremolo-driven riffs, blasting drums, and vocals smeared in reverb.
Bellingham's Cavurn move through death/doom at a glacial pace, letting riffs corrode and collapse under their own weight while gutturals push through the murk like something decomposing at depth.
Portland's Cavusum deal in an experimental strain of black metal pushing past genre orthodoxy into more dissonant, texturally strange territory, reflecting Portland's tradition of deconstructing extreme metal forms.
Houston's Cavyrns blend doom metal's heavy, slow-moving gravity with progressive metal's compositional ambition, building songs that evolve deliberately through dynamics and tonal shifts.
Groove-thrash act from Katowice in Upper Silesia, formed in 2020. Cayenne brings spicy, riff-driven aggression to the Silesian metal heartland.
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