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Catamount explores progressive metal territory with complex song structures, shifting time signatures, and interlocking guitar and bass arrangements that reflect Chicago's fertile prog and jazz-influenced music scene. Their compositions reward close listening, favoring atmosphere and technicality over brute force.
Speed and thrash metal band from Rothenthurm, Switzerland, formed in 2017. They channel the raw intensity and breakneck tempos of the classic speed metal era into a modern Swiss thrash attack.
Cataplasma is a thrash/death metal band from Los Ángeles in Chile's Biobío region, originally formed in the early 2000s under the name Carga before settling on their current name. Drawing influence from Chilean legend Dorso as well as international acts like Slayer and Sepultura, the band recorded their debut demo Gore Demencia in 2007 and have remained active in the regional underground metal circuit.
Catapult-Collision is a young Modesto outfit playing heavy, slow-burning doom metal built on crushing low-tuned riffs and a suffocating sense of dread. Even as a recent formation, their approach reaches back to the genre's foundational bleakness.
Los Angeles avant-doom outfit blending post-rock, sludge metal, and keyboard-driven atmosphere, prioritizing organ and synth over guitars to create a uniquely sorrowful, minimalist doom sound.
Stoner metal band from Mjölby in Östergötland, active since 2004. Catapult the Smoke has delivered two decades of heavy, fuzzed-out stoner grooves from central Sweden.
Progressive thrash act from Nakhodka, a port city in Russia's Far East near Vladivostok, formed in 2017. Catapultah delivers technically-ambitious thrash from the Pacific coast.
Black metal project from Nitra in western Slovakia, formed in 2018. Cataract Nocturhale channels dark, nocturnal black metal from the historic Nitra valley.
Cataract Stare is a San Diego oddity pairing the hyper-blasted ferocity of grindcore with the bombastic melody and theatrical energy of power metal, resulting in a chaotic yet surprisingly catchy sound. Short song lengths and velocity are weaponized against pompous epic structures.
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