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Death metal and deathcore band from Bradford, England, formed in 2018. They deliver crushing extremity from West Yorkshire.
New London, Connecticut doom/stoner duo Cinder Mage craft slow, hypnotic riff worship drenched in fuzz and reverb, conjuring occult imagery through heavy, ritualistic song structures. Their music moves like lava — deliberate, unstoppable, and scorching.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Piraeus, Greece, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness from the Athens port district.
Cinderella's Tom Keifer names the solo and touring identity of the singer, guitarist, and songwriter best known for fronting the Philadelphia-area hard rock band Cinderella. Keifer's musical history starts with the bluesy, raspy-voiced side of 1980s heavy rock: Night Songs gave Cinderella a glam-metal breakthrough, but Long Cold Winter and Heartbreak Station revealed deeper roots in slide guitar, Stonesy swagger, country-blues phrasing, and arena-sized ballads. His solo work with #keiferband, beginning with The Way Life Goes and continuing through Rise, keeps that foundation while sounding less tied to the original glam era. The songs lean on weathered vocals, hard-rock guitars, piano accents, gospel-tinged backing voices, and a storytelling approach shaped by survival, vocal injury, and reinvention. Live, the project connects Cinderella staples with newer material, so the line between legacy act and current band is deliberately porous. Keifer's value to hard rock is not only nostalgia; it is the way his voice and writing keep blues grit inside loud, hook-driven songs without making either side feel ornamental for contemporary hard-rock audiences.
Atmospheric black metal and folk metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend cinematic atmospheres with folk instrumentation and raw black metal intensity.
Death metal act from Bonorva in Sassari province, Sardinia, formed in 2018. Cinerarium — named after a vessel for cremation ashes — delivers funereal death metal from the Mediterranean island.
Black-death metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel dark, ashen atmospheres through a blend of black and death metal.
Melodic black metal project from Nitra, formed in 2022. Cineres — Latin for 'ashes' — channels atmospheric, melody-driven black metal from western Slovakia.
Cinical is a groove metal band from Mendoza, Argentina, founded by brothers Vaka and Bruno Allegretti alongside Warren Marino and Uriel Memoli. Their album Resurgir was produced by Andrés Giménez of Argentine metal legends A.N.I.M.A.L., giving the record a heavy, mid-tempo groove rooted in the Mendoza underground scene.
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