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Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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To Serve Man (2002)
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Atmospheric black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. Cepheide craft vast, immersive atmospheric black metal that has earned recognition in the French and international underground.
Experimental death metal band from Reading, England, formed in 2014. They push death metal boundaries through unconventional approaches.
Atmospheric black metal project from the seaside town of Katwijk aan Zee, South Holland, active since 2012. Cepheus — named after the celestial constellation — channels cosmic atmospheres through expansive black metal.
Death metal band from Grand Rapids, Ohio, delivering raw and direct death metal in the American underground tradition.
Death-doom metal band from Herborn, Germany, formed in 2024. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the Hessian Lahn-Dill region.
Raw black metal project from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cer delivers stripped-down, lo-fi black metal from the Dutch heartland.
Death-grind act from Ankara, formed in 2025. Cerahat — Turkish for 'pus' — delivers visceral extremity from the Turkish capital.
Death metal act from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, active since 2015. Cerber — Russian spelling of Cerberus — delivers hellish death metal from the Russian Far East.
Riverside, New Jersey band working in death-doom, combining the crushing weight of doom metal with the brutality of death metal for a slow, dense, and suffocating sound.
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