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Outer Space (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Raw black metal project originating from Czechia, now based in Langasjo, Sweden, formed in 2024. They craft primitive, stripped-down black metal rooted in lo-fi aesthetics and uncompromising rawness.
Black metal project from Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan, active since 2015. Chevauchée — a medieval French term for a destructive mounted raid — channels warlike black metal.
Atascadero, California's Chewed to Stubs traffics in brutal death metal executed with grinding intensity and no decorative excess. The Central Coast band channels pure sonic punishment into concise, devastating tracks.
Grindcore band from Bristol, England, active since 1996. With three decades of activity, Chewing Glass Collective are veterans of the Bristol grind underground.
Madison, Wisconsin's Chewing Teeth grinds through the volatile junction of death metal and grindcore with relentless, hyperactive energy. The band thrives in brevity, packing maximum hostility into minimum runtime.
South Dakota grindcore unit Chiaria brings the genre's chaotic velocity to an unlikely corner of the American plains. Their existence in the rural Midwest makes them a singular presence in a scene dominated by coastal cities.
Baltimore's Chiaroscuro pursues a melodic death metal sound rooted in the Gothenburg tradition while infusing it with the East Coast underground's rougher edge. The contrast of melody and brutality is central to their identity.
Seattle's Chiaroscuro applies progressive metal's ambitious architecture to the Pacific Northwest's introspective musical tradition. The band builds layered, dynamic compositions with attention to atmosphere and technical detail.
Black metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2022. They channel chiaroscuro darkness through atmospheric black metal from France's second city.
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