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A St. Louis stoner-doom two-piece, Cloud Machine have built a tireless live reputation while refining a sound that pits driving, Sabbath-influenced riffs against progressive sludge arrangements. Their 2025 LP Chill'um All, produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, marks a significant leap forward.
Groove and progressive metal band from Switzerland, formed in 2014. They blend heavy, rhythmic grooves with progressive complexity and dynamic arrangements.
An anonymous US death metal duo, Cloud of Flies release their material through Centipede Abyss and embrace a cavernous, disorienting aesthetic. Their releases traffic in murky, unsettling death metal that prioritizes atmosphere and density over accessibility.
Cloud of Shadows is a metalcore band from Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose sound is rooted in the Gothenburg melodic death metal tradition with clear influences from In Flames, Arch Enemy, and Dark Tranquillity. The band released their third album Rodeando el Abismo in 2022 and have maintained nearly continuous activity, with a fourth studio record in progress as of 2026.
Indianapolis's Cloud of Souls, the studio project of Chris Latta and Tucker Thomasson, brew classic black, doom, and epic heavy metal into a sound that evokes Bathory's Blood Fire Death meeting Saint Vitus. Their albums A Fate Decided and A Constant State of Flux demonstrate a consistently ambitious vision within the blackened doom space.
Mount Pleasant, Michigan's Cloud Rat are one of the most restless and vital grindcore bands in the US, folding black metal, doom, shoegaze, and hardcore punk into their relentlessly political and emotionally raw attack. Signed to Artoffact Records, the trio have spent over a decade releasing a staggering volume of splits, EPs, and full-lengths that refuse easy categorization.
Progressive power metal act from İzmir on the Aegean coast, formed in 2018. Cloud Theory delivers technically ambitious metal from Turkey's third-largest city.
A solo metal project out of Walnut Creek, California, Cloudbeast combines death metal's brutality with progressive and doom-influenced textures. Their demos suggest a project constantly in motion, willing to pull from thrash and darkness equally.
Progressive melodic death metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend progressive complexity with melodic death metal's harmonies and aggression.
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