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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Progressive heavy metal band from Marseille, France, active since 2013. They blend progressive complexity with heavy metal power from the Mediterranean port city.
Poughkeepsie death/black metal act C.A.I.N. — the acronym standing for "Christ Aborted in Nativity" — formed in 2000 and released material independently before splitting up.
Death metal band from Turi, Estonia, formed in 2022. They deliver crushing death metal from the Baltic nation's rural heartland.
C.F.C. (short for "Cash for Chaos") is a thrash metal and crossover band from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, that has since split up. The band played politically charged and socially critical music, addressing themes of daily struggles, society, and systemic issues in their lyrics. They operated as an independent act within the Goiânia underground metal scene.
Black and death metal band from Slavonski Brod, Croatia, formed in 2017. C.F.T.C. fuses melodic death metal hooks with black metal intensity in a provocative package.
Heavy metal band from Kirov, Russia, active since 2009. C.H.R.O.M.E has spent over fifteen years delivering traditional metal from the Vyatka region.
Eugene, Oregon's C.I.A Hippie Mind Control play a dense strain of psychedelic doom metal and have racked up multiple compilation appearances since 2019, including tracks on The Swamp Records' Crow and Poe collection.
Baltimore heavy metal and hard rock act C.I.A. were active from around 1980 and released material through Fat Daddy Records, with a track appearing on the local 98 Rock Vol. II compilation in 1982.
This U.S. C.I.A. blended heavy, power, and thrash metal and released material through Next Productions before splitting up after a short run beginning in 2021.
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