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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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To Serve Man (2002)
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Cemetary is a thrash metal band from Santa Clara, California, channeling the aggressive Bay Area tradition of bands like early Exodus and Testament, with tight rhythm work, barked vocals, and relentless forward momentum.
Symphonic black metal project from Tomsk, Siberia, formed in 2020. Cemeterial blends orchestral darkness with black metal from the old Siberian university city.
Cemeterial Aura is a raw black metal project from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the lo-fi, primitive aesthetic of raw black metal — hypnotic tremolo riffing, cold production, and a deliberately abrasive, anti-polished presentation.
Cemeterium is a black metal band from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, active since 2004. The band works in a depressive and doom-inflected style, exploring themes of death, hopelessness, and anti-religion across a catalog that includes the albums The Fall, the End, As Death Consumes the Earth, Delirium, and Ruin. Their Bandcamp page lists releases under the DSBM and doom metal tags alongside black metal.
Black metal project from Uppsala, formed in 2018. Cemeterius channels dark, atmospheric black metal from the historic Swedish university city.
Cemeterum is a death metal band from Ohio steeped in the morbid, old-school tradition, favoring heavy downtuned riffing and murky production over technical showmanship, with a sound that leans toward the death-doom fringe of early death metal.
Tampa's Cemetery emerged from the same Florida death metal tradition that built the genre's founding mythology — thick, swampy riffs, cavernous production, and a death-is-everywhere aesthetic.
Cemetery Cove is a black metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah, crafting cold and atmospheric black metal with tremolo-picked guitar lines and expansive arrangements that draw from both Scandinavian second-wave black metal and the American atmospheric underground.
Cemetery Dave is a doom and stoner metal act from Boston, Massachusetts, blending the slow, heavy riff worship of traditional doom with the fuzz-soaked psychedelia of stoner rock, evoking Sabbathian oppression with a hazy, retro-tinted groove.
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