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Cemetery Skyline is a Finnish-Swedish gothic rock and metal supergroup formed in 2024, assembled from members of some of Scandinavia's most celebrated metal acts, including Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity), Markus Vanhala (Insomnium), Santeri Kallio (Amorphis), Victor Brandt (Dimmu Borgir), and Vesa Ranta (Sentenced). The band made their live debut at the John Smith Rock Festival in Finland in July 2024 and released their debut album Nordic Gothic the following October via Century Media Records.
Cemetery Trip is a black metal band from Nottingham, New Hampshire, playing atmospheric and introspective black metal with lo-fi production and nature-influenced compositions that align with the American USBM tradition of solitude and environmental darkness.
Death metal band from Kraków, active since 2016. Cemetery Whore channels morbid, graveyard-themed death metal from the former Polish royal capital.
Black-death metal band from Loimaa, Finland, emerging in 2025. They channel dark, sepulchral metal from the Finnish countryside.
Cemitério is a death/thrash metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014 by multi-instrumentalist Hugo Golon. The band's self-titled debut album, recorded at RH Studios and released in 2014, draws heavily on classic horror films of the 1970s and 1980s for its lyrical themes, taking influence from early death metal acts such as Possessed, Death, and Pestilence, as well as Brazilian legends Sepultura, Mutilator, and Vulcano. The project is released through Kill Again Records.
Cenagal is a thrash metal band from Quilpué whose debut demo, released in August 2018 through Valparaíso distro Los Restos Dela Esfera, announced a sound shaped by classic extreme thrash forebears including early Sepultura, Slayer, Kreator, Pestilence, and Sodom. Their self-described "dirty and streetwise" approach grounds the band firmly in the street-level thrash tradition of the Chilean underground.
Cendiate is a death metal band from New York City, blending technical riff structures with aggressive, downtuned brutality, drawing from both the precision of technical death metal and the raw aggression of the New York underground.
Black metal band from Sabadell near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012. They craft atmospheric black metal from the Catalan industrial heartland.
Black metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft cold, intense black metal from the industrial heart of the Ruhr Valley.
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