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Safe House (2017)
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A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Paper Tiger (2025)
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Bellingham's Cavurn move through death/doom at a glacial pace, letting riffs corrode and collapse under their own weight while gutturals push through the murk like something decomposing at depth.
Portland's Cavusum deal in an experimental strain of black metal pushing past genre orthodoxy into more dissonant, texturally strange territory, reflecting Portland's tradition of deconstructing extreme metal forms.
Houston's Cavyrns blend doom metal's heavy, slow-moving gravity with progressive metal's compositional ambition, building songs that evolve deliberately through dynamics and tonal shifts.
Groove-thrash act from Katowice in Upper Silesia, formed in 2020. Cayenne brings spicy, riff-driven aggression to the Silesian metal heartland.
Cazador Nocturno is a heavy metal band from San José, Costa Rica, formed in 2000. The band released their debut full-length Al fin del tiempo in 2019, followed by the EP Pecador in 2022, a recording tracked at Apex Studios in Escazú with mixing and mastering handled at Lúcuma Studios in Cartago. Their music draws on traditional heavy metal songwriting developed over more than two decades on the San José scene.
Black-doom act from Istanbul, formed in 2023. Cazu merges atmospheric black metal with doom pacing from the Bosphorus city.
Raw black metal project originating from Hampshire/Sussex, now based in Manchester, England, active since 2009. Caina craft avant-garde, emotionally intense black metal that pushes the genre's boundaries.
Thrash metal band from Southend-on-Sea, England, active since 2010. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Essex coast.
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