Cemetery Lust is a black/thrash metal band from Portland, Oregon, combining the raw savagery of first-wave black metal with the speed and riff aggression of classic thrash in the tradition of Venom, Midnight, and Toxic Holocaust — mean-spirited, filth-forward, and built for speed.

Cemetery Moon is a black metal band from Danbury, Connecticut, crafting cold and melodic black metal with stark tremolo work and lo-fi rawness drawn from the grimmer, more atmospheric side of the Scandinavian second-wave tradition.

Cemetery Piss is a black metal band from Baltimore, Maryland, with a deliberately crude, anti-polished aesthetic rooted in the punk-inflected underground tradition of bands like Bone Awl — raw, confrontational, and stripped down to the most primitive black metal essentials.

Cemetery Trip is a black metal band from Nottingham, New Hampshire, playing atmospheric and introspective black metal with lo-fi production and nature-influenced compositions that align with the American USBM tradition of solitude and environmental darkness.

Cenotaph is a thrash metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, delivering Bay Area-influenced thrash built on crunching riff patterns and melodic soloing, with a career reflecting a consistent commitment to classic American thrash values.

Centralia is a black metal band from Freehold, New Jersey, named after the famously burning Pennsylvania ghost town and playing atmospheric black metal that evokes industrial desolation and subterranean dread.

Quincy, Massachusetts atmospheric black metal act weaving cold, expansive textures into a raw black metal framework, drawing on the ambient and nature-oriented wing of the genre.

Cleveland, Ohio act spanning black metal, death metal, and thrash, drawing on all three traditions to create a raw and aggressive hybrid sound.

Black metal act from Battle Ground, Washington, founded in 1996 by brothers Jake and Nick Superchi, blending symphonic orchestration and dark ambient textures into their "American Deathphonic Black Metal" style; their concept album Salem 1692 and releases on labels like Moribund Records brought them recognition in the American black metal underground.