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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Los Angeles, California death metal band playing in the tradition of the West Coast death metal underground with a dark and aggressive approach.
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.
Chained Existence is a death metal band from Fort Bragg, California, delivering brutal, riff-heavy material rooted in the American death metal underground. Their sound draws on the visceral aggression and punishing downtuned riffing central to the genre.
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.
Santa Barbara, California melodic death metal band Chao Lux combine the melodic sensibility of Gothenburg-influenced death metal with more aggressive death metal intensity. Their music features clean melodic hooks alongside harsher riffing and growled vocals.
Chaos Dimension is a technical death metal band from Corona, California that incorporates groove metal elements into complex, riff-heavy compositions. The band delivers brutal, mind-bending death metal that emphasizes technical precision alongside raw heaviness.
Lancaster, California's Chernobyl Weenie Roast crashes deathcore's breakdown-heavy chug into death metal's technical brutality with a defiantly irreverent name masking a very serious sonic attack. The band leans into the most punishing elements of both styles.
Atascadero, California's Chewed to Stubs traffics in brutal death metal executed with grinding intensity and no decorative excess. The Central Coast band channels pure sonic punishment into concise, devastating tracks.
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