New Jersey's Cavity Injector smash death metal and grindcore together in characteristic East Coast bursts of blastbeats, surgical riff brutality, and vocals pitched between guttural roar and grinding shriek.

Reading, Pennsylvania's Cavum pursue straightforward, grimly melodic black metal drawing on the European second-wave tradition — tremolo-driven riffs, blasting drums, and vocals smeared in reverb.

Bellingham's Cavurn move through death/doom at a glacial pace, letting riffs corrode and collapse under their own weight while gutturals push through the murk like something decomposing at depth.

Brutal Death Metal from Houston, Texas / Seattle, Washington / Phoenix, Arizona (early); Houston, Texas (later).

Celestial Bifurcation is a brutal death metal band from Washington state. They deliver dense, technical riffing and extreme low-end heaviness paired with blast-driven drumming.

Celestial Corrosion blends the morbid atmosphere of death metal with the slow, oppressive weight of doom, creating a suffocating sound well-suited to Dallas's heavy underground. Their music moves between glacial tempos and mid-paced death metal aggression.

Celestial Emissary is a brutal death metal project from Missouri. Their releases include the demo "Altar of Despair" and the album "Convergence," working in the dense, guttural style of underground brutal death metal.

Celestial Exile from Bylas blends the down-tuned brutality of death metal with the atmospheric heaviness and breakdowns of deathcore, rooted in the Native American community of the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona. Their sound carries an outsider intensity shaped by geographic and cultural isolation.

Portland's Celestial Serpent combine black and death metal into a dense, riff-heavy assault emphasizing darkness and malevolence over technical showboating.

Celestial Sovereignty is a progressive black/death metal band from Modesto, California. They blend the sinister atmosphere of black metal, the brutality of death metal, and the compositional complexity of progressive metal into multi-layered compositions.

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.