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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Crossspitter delivers death metal that prioritizes aggression and atmosphere in equal measure, building on the genre's traditions with a raw and punishing approach. Their music focuses on visceral impact over technical showmanship.
Blackened death metal project from Norway, active since 2013. Crossthrone delivers dark, extreme metal.
Power and speed metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2010. They deliver fast, melodic metal from Greece's second-largest city.
Virginia's Crosswords in Pen brings emotional urgency to metalcore, pairing introspective lyrical themes with genre-standard heaviness. Their approach reflects the mid-Atlantic hardcore scene's influence on the metalcore sound.
Post-metal-sludge-stoner act from Faro in the Algarve, active since 2016. Crosta — Portuguese for 'crust' — delivers heavy, atmospheric post-metal from Portugal's sunny south.
Staten Island's Crotaline blends black metal's icy atmosphere with thrash metal's pummeling forward momentum, a combination that reflects New York City's historically eclectic underground scene. Venomous and aggressive, their sound evokes the serpentine predator in their name.
Progressive heavy-thrash act from Laives near Bolzano in South Tyrol, formed in 2024. Crotalo — Italian for 'rattlesnake' — blends progressive complexity with thrash aggression.
Colorado Springs' Crotalus delivers death metal with the blunt force of the high desert, favoring brutality and heaviness over technical ornamentation. Their music hits with the directness of a rattlesnake strike.
Plaistow, New Hampshire's Crotalus takes a more cerebral approach, weaving progressive metal's compositional ambition into thrash metal's energetic framework. The result is technically sharp and dynamically varied, standing out in the New England underground.
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