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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Huntington Beach extreme metal collective fusing black metal, death metal, grindcore, and sludge into a chaotic, genre-defying hybrid that resists easy categorization.
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.
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.
Cerulean is a Tucson-area act blending black and death metal into a harsh, extreme sound that draws from both genres' most punishing tendencies. Their material combines blackened dissonance with death metal brutality.
Cetus is a Ventura, California band merging black and death metal extremity into a ferocious, uncompromising sound drawing on both genres' most aggressive elements. Their work captures the raw, underground energy of the California extreme metal scene.
Chaahk is a black metal band from Riverside, California, drawing thematic inspiration from Mesoamerican mythology — specifically the Maya rain and storm deity for whom they are named. Their sound channels raw aggression through a lens of ancient, pre-Columbian darkness.
San Francisco, California act Chainsaw Zombie weave together black metal, death metal, and doom metal into a dark, mid-paced assault drawing from the Bay Area's extreme metal history. The death-doom elements slow their attack and add a sepulchral heaviness.
California raw black metal project Chalice of Eden operate in the lo-fi, primitive tradition of raw black metal, prioritizing atmosphere and nihilistic intensity over production polish. Their music is harsh and stripped down, indebted to the second-wave Scandinavian style.
Searles Valley, California black metal project Chamber of Mirrors craft cold, atmospheric black metal from the Mojave Desert region, channeling isolation and desolation into harsh, tremolo-driven compositions. Their remote origins lend the music a bleak and solitary character.
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