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Victim of the New Disease (2018)
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Walk The Sky (2019)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Black metal act from Trondheim, active since 2008. Celestial Bloodshed delivered violent, uncompromising Norwegian black metal tied to the notorious Trondheim scene.
Celestial Corrosion blends the morbid atmosphere of death metal with the slow, oppressive weight of doom, creating a suffocating sound well-suited to Dallas's heavy underground. Their music moves between glacial tempos and mid-paced death metal aggression.
Gothic doom-black metal band from Tartu, Estonia, active since 2002. They weave gothic darkness and doom weight through a black metal framework from Estonia's university city.
Depressive black metal project from the UK, formed in 2024. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal.
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Celestial Demise plays melodic, anthem-driven power metal with soaring vocals, harmony-rich guitar arrangements, and an epic sensibility drawn from the European power metal tradition transplanted to Boston. Their approach favors grandiose song structures and polished, dramatic performances.
Gothic and symphonic metal band from Seligenstadt, Germany. They blend orchestral grandeur and gothic atmospheres into a darkly melodic metal sound.
Celestial Emissary is a brutal death metal project from Missouri. Their releases include the demo "Altar of Despair" and the album "Convergence," working in the dense, guttural style of underground brutal death metal.
Celestial Exile from Bylas blends the down-tuned brutality of death metal with the atmospheric heaviness and breakdowns of deathcore, rooted in the Native American community of the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona. Their sound carries an outsider intensity shaped by geographic and cultural isolation.
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