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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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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.
Cellgraft is a grindcore band from Tampa, Florida, known for tight, blastbeat-driven ferocity and biting socially charged lyrics, operating in the precise and unrelenting tradition of American technical grindcore.
Doom-stoner band from Cherkasy in central Ukraine, active since 2012. Celophys delivers heavy, slow-burning grooves from the Dnieper River city.
Celtic black metal and folk metal band from Dublin, active since 2010. Celtachor draws deeply on Irish mythology and the Gaelic tradition, weaving folk instrumentation into fierce black metal.
Pagan black metal band from Alexandreia in northern Greece, active since 2013. They channel Celtic and pagan themes through atmospheric black metal from the Macedonian region.
Folk metal band from Ciudad Real, Spain, formed in 2022. They blend Celtiberian cultural heritage and folk elements with heavy metal energy from the Castilian plains.
Pagan black metal band from the Bremen/Delmenhorst area, Germany, formed in 2016. They channel Celtic themes and nature worship through raw, atmospheric black metal.
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.
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