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Funeral doom metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2024. They craft glacially slow, oppressively heavy doom from the Andalusian capital.
Metalcore band from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, formed in 2018. They deliver heavy breakdowns and dynamic songwriting from the Galician capital.
Cleveland black metal act Cabra have been active since 2016, channeling themes of war, destruction, misanthropy, and anti-religion into their uncompromising sound.
Cabrakaän is a Folk/Symphonic Metal band founded in Toluca, Mexico in December 2012 by Marko Cipäktli and Pat Cuikäni, drawing on Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican folklore for their lyrical content. The band released the EP "Songs from Anahuac" in 2014 and the full-length "Cem Anahuac My Home" in 2019, followed by the album "Aztlán" in 2023.
Cabresto was a heavy metal band from Campana, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The band's lineup included vocalist Emmanuel "NIZ" Echegaray, guitarists Lucas Galarza and Juan Pablo Rodoni, bassist Mario Mansilla, and drummer Leo Graf, with several members connected to the local Campana metal scene through other acts. They released a demo showcasing a direct, traditional heavy metal approach before eventually splitting up.
Cabrocordero is an experimental sludge and stoner metal duo from Buenos Aires, built around bass and drums in a format that recalls Big Business in its stripped-down but crushing heaviness. Their 2011 full-length Namastie Qoh — nine tracks and over fifty minutes of fuzzed-out riffs and noise experiments — earned recognition from international metal press as a standout in South American heavy music. The band has cited a philosophy of musical transmission, describing their compositions as a kind of channel for sonic energy rather than conventional songwriting.
Black metal project from Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic, active since 2015. Cabron crafts raw black metal from the Ural region of Russia.
Grindcore act from Jena, Germany, active since 2006. They channel chaotic, abrasive extremity through short, intense bursts of grinding fury from the Thuringian university town.
Los Angeles pagan black metal project Cacaodemon emerged in 2023, adding a nature-rooted spiritual dimension to the Southern California extreme metal underground.
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