Celestial Theory is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Mercedes, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. They fuse death metal's brutality with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility and orchestral arrangements to create layered, cinematic compositions.

Celestial Wizard from Denver blends the occult heaviness of death metal with the anthemic grandeur of power metal and traditional heavy metal, producing a theatrical and heavy sound with equal parts brutality and melody. Colorado's high-altitude isolation lends the material a cosmic, expansive quality.

Cell Intruder is a death metal band from Louisville, Kentucky, trading in the churning, downtuned riff structures and guttural vocal delivery of old-school American death metal, with a murky, mid-paced approach that favors atmosphere and groove over speed.

Cellar Fluids is a death metal and grindcore band from Savannah, Georgia, blending the gore-obsessed intensity of grind with the downtuned riff structures of death metal for a caustic and deliberately unpolished sound.

Cellar Vessel is a progressive death metal band from Bozeman, Montana, combining the technical complexity and unconventional song structures of progressive metal with the crushing aggression and guttural extremity of death metal.

CellarWitch is a Portland, Oregon band operating at the intersection of black metal and brutal death metal, fusing icy tremolo aggression with pulverizing low-end brutality and a chaotic, dissonant approach that resists clean genre categorization.

Cemetarian is a death metal band from Houston, Texas, working in the filthy, cavernous tradition of bands like Incantation and Autopsy, favoring thick production and lurching, morbid riff patterns rooted in early-1990s death metal aesthetics.

Cemetary is a heavy metal band from Center Line, Michigan, playing traditional metal with a no-frills Midwest sensibility rooted in classic hard rock and heavy metal, built around clean vocals and mid-tempo riffing.

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 Earth is a death metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, rooted in the old-school tradition with thick riffs, deliberate pacing, and a production aesthetic that recalls the murk of early 1990s American death metal.

Cemetery Filth is a death metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, known for channeling the cavernous and bestial approach of Incantation and Grave — suffocating riffs, deep guttural vocals drenched in reverb, and a deliberately sepulchral atmosphere.

Cemetery Frost is a death-doom band from New Orleans, Louisiana, fusing the glacial tempos and crushing weight of doom metal with the guttural density of old-school death metal, producing a slow-motion devastation amplified by the swampy heaviness of the New Orleans underground.

Cemetery Reign is a death metal band from New Mexico, delivering straightforward, riff-centric old-school death metal with a direct and aggressive approach, brutal rhythmic pounding, and guttural vocal delivery from one of the more isolated outposts of the American underground.

Cemetery Rot is a death metal band from Bakersfield, California, drawing from the Swedish and Finnish old-school traditions with a heavy reliance on buzzsaw guitar tone, gut-punch riffing, and the morbid energy of early Dismember and Entombed.