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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Thrash metal band from Athens, Ohio, playing aggressive, riff-driven thrash in the American tradition.
Los Angeles, California band blending melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the riff aggression of thrash, resulting in a melodically charged and technically driven sound.
Cleveland, Ohio act spanning black metal, death metal, and thrash, drawing on all three traditions to create a raw and aggressive hybrid sound.
Groove death/thrash from San Marcos. Has opened for Anthrax, The Black Dahlia Murder, Devildriver, Cattle Decapitation, and Suffocation.
Ceremonial Slaughter is a thrash metal band from Austin, Texas, delivering aggressive, riff-driven attack rooted in the classic Bay Area and Teutonic traditions. Their sound emphasizes speed and ferocity with a raw, uncompromising edge.
Cereviscera is a Chicago, Illinois band fusing technical death metal with progressive and thrash influences, constructing intricate, shifting compositions that reward close listening. Their songwriting balances cerebral complexity with raw metallic force.
Cerna Krev is a Seattle, Washington act merging black and thrash metal into a savage, relentless sound influenced by Eastern European and South American underground traditions. The band's name means "black blood" in Czech, reflecting their rawness and intensity.
Certain Death is a thrash metal band from Newberg, Oregon, delivering straightforward, aggressive thrash informed by the classic American underground of the 1980s. Their no-frills approach centers on tight riffing and punishing tempos.
Cetragore is a Quincy, Massachusetts death/thrash metal band combining the speed and riff intensity of thrash with the brutality and aggression of death metal. Their tight, energetic playing reflects the strong New England underground metal tradition.
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