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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Madness (2017)
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Cellgraft is a grindcore band from Tampa, Florida, known for tight, blastbeat-driven ferocity and biting socially charged lyrics, operating in the precise and unrelenting tradition of American technical grindcore.
Celtica is a heavy metal band from New York, working in a melodic traditional style rooted in classic 1980s American and European heavy metal, with hook-forward songwriting built around clean vocals and crunching mid-tempo riffs.
Cement Head is a doom and progressive metal band from Boulder, Colorado, combining the slow, heavy riff cycles of traditional doom with progressive arrangements and dynamic range drawn from classic heavy metal.
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.
Cemetary is a thrash metal band from Santa Clara, California, channeling the aggressive Bay Area tradition of bands like early Exodus and Testament, with tight rhythm work, barked vocals, and relentless forward momentum.
Cemeterial Aura is a raw black metal project from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the lo-fi, primitive aesthetic of raw black metal — hypnotic tremolo riffing, cold production, and a deliberately abrasive, anti-polished presentation.
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.
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