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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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A raw black metal and dark ambient project from Roy, Washington, Cadaver Rite operates in the harshest corners of the underground, pairing abrasive black metal with cold, ceremonial ambient passages.
Death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing death metal from the heart of Yorkshire.
Black-death metal band from Lempaala, Finland, formed in 2019. They channel vampiric darkness through a fusion of black and death metal.
A death metal band from San Diego, California, Cadavered is a recent entry into the city's underground scene, offering straight-forward, punishing death metal in the classic mold.
Gothic black metal artist from Biella, Italy, formed in 2002 by the former vocalist of Opera IX. Cadaveria has built a distinctive solo career blending theatrical darkness with black metal ferocity over two decades.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Brescia, Italy, active since 2004. Cadaveric Crematorium delivers relentless blasting and guttural punishment from Lombardy.
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cadaveric Depravity deals in the punishing low-end assault of brutal death metal, built around guttural vocals, blast beats, and technical riffwork.
Death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver a punishing blend of filthy death metal and grinding blasts from the Finnish capital.
Cadaveric Infection is an extreme metal band from Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in June 2009. The band began as a brutal death metal act before shifting toward a black/death metal style in later years, with lyrical themes centered on carnage, anti-Christianity, and Satanism. They are signed to Suicide Apology Records and remain active within the Brazilian underground metal scene.
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