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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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New Hampshire's Chiburi brings a progressive metal sensibility to New England, crafting intricate, evolving compositions with a patient approach to dynamics and structure. The band's rural surroundings inform a reflective, expansive sound.
Chicago's aptly named Chicago Thrash Ensemble delivers crossover thrash fueled by Midwest work-ethic aggression and the city's hardcore punk legacy. The band pulls no punches in blending the two genres' most kinetic qualities.
Thrash metal band from Buc near Versailles, France, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Parisian suburbs.
Heavy metal band from Ribnica in southern Slovenia, active since 2013. Chicksy Dicks delivers riff-driven traditional metal with a cheeky attitude.
Vicksburg, Mississippi's Chief City drags doom and sludge metal through the humid, oppressive atmosphere of the Deep South. Their slow, heavy sound carries the weight of the region's history and geography.
Doom-stoner band from Groningen in the northern Netherlands, active since 2016. Chief of Smoke delivers lumbering, haze-drenched heaviness from the country's northernmost major city.
DeLand, Florida's Chief Wiggum pairs melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with the brutal foundation of straight death metal, operating under a name that belies a genuinely serious musical approach. The band is rooted in Florida's storied extreme metal tradition.
Heavy metal band from Paris, France, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of history, Chien Jaune are veterans of the Parisian heavy metal scene.
Chifre Negro is a black metal band from São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, formed in 2015. The band operates independently within the Brazilian extreme metal underground and is listed as active on the Metal Archives. Their name translates to "Black Horn" in Portuguese.
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