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Funeral doom act from Lublin, eastern Poland, active since 2011. Czarna Rozpacz — Polish for 'black despair' — crafts glacially slow, sorrowful funeral doom from the Lublin underground.
Bismarck, Arkansas doom and stoner metal band conjuring fuzz-soaked heaviness from the rural South. Czarus leans into the slow, meditative power of stoner doom with riffs built for maximum amplifier worship.
Black metal project from Szczecin in northwestern Poland, formed in 2019. Czernina — named after the Polish blood soup — channels dark folk horror through black metal.
Post-metal death-sludge act from Warsaw, active since 2014. Czerń — Polish for 'blackness' — merges atmospheric post-metal with crushing death and sludge elements.
Polish black metal project from Silesia, formed in 2018. Czort — a Slavic devil figure — channels blasphemous black metal from the industrial heartland.
Death-groove act from Żmigród in Lower Silesia, active since 2010. Czoug delivers heavy, rhythmically-driven extreme metal from the Polish countryside.
Cárcere is a thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2018. The independent band released their debut EP "Crimes de Guerra" in December 2018, a five-track slab of aggressive Brazilian thrash rooted in the classic traditions of the genre.
Atmospheric black metal project from Geneva, Switzerland, creating music rooted in deep emotions, nature, and folklore. Across albums like The Last Rain and Devoured By The Oak, Can Bardd channels howling mountains and misty forests into intense, heartfelt black metal with folk metal accents.
Cães de Guarda — Portuguese for Guard Dogs — operate out of Brasília, the planned modernist capital whose grid of superquadras and government ministries has long sat in awkward tension with the abrasive underground that fills its satellite cities and rock dives. The band's recorded activity stretches from 2016 forward, placing them squarely in the current generation of Distrito Federal extreme acts that have kept the local thrash and crossover tradition alive in the wake of older DF lifers like D.F.C. (Distrito Federal Caos), formed in 1993 and still the touchstone for the city's hardcore-thrash crossover, and Violator, the Brasília-bred outfit that became one of the most internationally visible names of the post-millennium Brazilian thrash revival. Cães de Guarda's death-tinged thrash places them in a slightly grittier corner of that ecosystem — less neo-classic Bay Area homage, more the kind of teeth-bared, politically suspicious dog-eat-dog attack that the band name openly telegraphs. Brasília's scene runs on small DIY festivals, underground sessions, and venues across the satellite cities of Taguatinga, Ceilândia, and Gama, and Cães de Guarda have surfaced on multi-band underground bills like the Sessions series that local promoters use to cycle DF bands through tight, sweaty rooms. The capital's metal community has always had to invent its own infrastructure — there is no Belo Horizonte-style mythology or São Paulo-sized industry to lean on — and bands here tend to read as functional units built for live work and self-released tapes rather than label careers. Cães de Guarda fit that mold: a decade of output, a regional reputation, and a name that doubles as a thesis statement about who exactly the watchdogs are in a city built on government work.
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