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Brutal death-grindcore band from Strasbourg, France, active since 2013. They deliver punishing, abrasive extremity from the Alsatian capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Aschaffenburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver chaotic, abrasive extremity from the Franconian edge of Bavaria.
Cloak formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013, founded by Scott Taysom and Sean Bruneau as a reaction to what they saw as a lack of dark, dangerous heavy music in the local scene. Signed to Season of Mist and later Metal Blade Records, the band combines traditional heavy metal structures with black metal atmospherics, black and roll energy, and gothic rock mood, citing Dissection, Deep Purple, and Fields of the Nephilim as core influences. Their third album Black Flame Eternal appeared in 2023.
Swedish heavy metal act active since 2009, delivering classic riff-driven energy with a traditional metal sensibility. Their enduring commitment to the craft speaks to heavy metal's timeless appeal.
Los Angeles heavy metal outfit Cloak Creature bring a lurking, shadowy energy to the LA metal scene, drawing on classic heavy metal tradition filtered through the city's expansive underground. Their music is riff-driven and deliberate, favoring menace over flash.
Vancouver, WA's Cloak of Displacement inhabit the slow, suffocating intersection of black metal and drone, constructing vast, formless pieces built on dissonance and sustained tension. Their work is meditative and unsettling in equal measure.
Nashville's Cloaked produce raw, primitive black metal with a deep commitment to the genre's most unadorned and hostile traditions. Their recordings are deliberately lo-fi and confrontational, rejecting any polish in favor of pure darkness.
Cloakroom formed in Indiana in June 2012, developing a sound that drew equally from shoegaze's textured reverb, 1990s slowcore melancholy, and hardcore's physical weight, with reference points including Hum and Red House Painters. Their debut Further Out appeared in 2015, and the band went on to release Time Well (2017) and Dissolution Wave (2022) on Relapse Records. Their 2025 album Last Leg of the Human Table continued their exploration of heavy, introspective guitar music.
Melodic death-groove metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2012. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with heavy grooves from northern Finland.
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