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Death Atlas (2019)
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Evidence (2023)
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Denver's Cavernous combine death and doom into slow, churning dirges built around crushing downtuned riffs, drawing on the death-doom lineage running from diSEMBOWELMENT through Evoken.
Minneapolis's Cavernous Maw bring a brutal, pit-focused death metal attack rooted in dense riffwork and uncompromising low-end punishment.
Shasta, California's Caverns practice raw, lo-fi black metal leaning heavily into the primitive, underground aesthetic with sparse, tape-hiss-drenched recordings and bleak melodic sensibility.
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.
Little Rock's Cavort Usurp mix black metal's raw intensity with hardcore's direct aggression and thrash metal's riff-forward energy, creating a crossover-adjacent sound that feels combative and street-level.
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.
Portland's Cavusum deal in an experimental strain of black metal pushing past genre orthodoxy into more dissonant, texturally strange territory, reflecting Portland's tradition of deconstructing extreme metal forms.
Houston's Cavyrns blend doom metal's heavy, slow-moving gravity with progressive metal's compositional ambition, building songs that evolve deliberately through dynamics and tonal shifts.
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