    Cold as Life | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1988 | Beatdown Hardcore / Hardcore Punk | 2 | 2 | 32 | — | Suffer 2017 |
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    coldrain | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 2007 | Alternative Rock / Metalcore | 9 | 6 | 131 | — | OPTIMIZE = OPTDEMISE 2026 |
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 Coma Regalia | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2010 | Emo | 1 | 0 | 11 | — | Desolate Hands Move the Hour 2018 |
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    Comeback Kid | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | 2001 | Hardcore Punk / Heavy Metal | 8 | 2 | 104 | — | Trouble EP 2024 |
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  concealer. | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Emoviolence / Metalcore | 1 | 1 | 14 | — | This Room Could Be Heaven 2026 |
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   Concrete Winds | 🇫🇮 Finland | — | 2019 | Black Metal / Death Metal | 3 | 0 | 28 | — | Concrete Winds 2024 |
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    Contrastic | 🇨🇿 Czechia | — | 1993 | Death Metal / Grindcore | 2 | 3 | 42 | 5.0 / 5.0 | Mamun 2020 |
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    Converge | 🇺🇸 United States | Active | 1990 | Hardcore Punk / Metalcore | 13 | 0 | 155 | 5.0 / 5.0 | Hum of Hurt 2026 |
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    Convulse | 🇫🇮 Finland | — | 1988 | Death Metal / Melodic Death Metal | 5 | 2 | 46 | — | Deathstar 2020 |
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    Convulsing | 🇦🇺 Australia | — | — | Death Metal / Black Metal | 4 | 0 | 24 | — | Perdurance 2024 |
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 Copremesis | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2001 | — | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Buried Zine Presents: WORMED and Copremesis 2022 |
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    Coroner | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | — | 1983 | Thrash Metal / Technical Thrash Metal | 6 | 2 | 67 | — | Ex Nucleo (The Remastered Extraction) 2026 |
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 Corporal Raid | 🇮🇹 Italy | — | 2001 | Death Metal / Goregrind | 1 | 0 | 19 | — | United States of Goregrind 2005 |
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 Corpsessed | 🇫🇮 Finland | — | 2007 | Death Metal | 1 | 0 | 7 | — | Kuolema parantaa kaikki haavat 2015 |
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 Corpus Offal | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2024 | — | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Corpus Offal / Undergang 2026 |
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    Cosmic Putrefaction | 🇮🇹 Italy | — | 2018 | Death Metal / Black Metal | 4 | 0 | 30 | — | Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains 2024 |
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    Counterparts | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | 2007 | Metalcore / Melodic Hardcore | 7 | 3 | 89 | 4.8 / 5.0 | Heaven Let Them Die 2024 |
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    Cradle of Filth | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 1991 | Black Metal / Symphonic Black Metal | 15 | 3 | 222 | — | The Screaming of the Valkyries 2025 |
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 Crawl | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Black Metal | 1 | 0 | 2 | — | Crawl / Lvthn 2018 |
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 Crebain | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2003 | Black Metal | 1 | 0 | 12 | — | Crebain / Leviathan 2004 |
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    Creeping Death | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2015 | Death Metal / Thrash Metal | 2 | 3 | 33 | — | Boundless Domain 2023 |
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 Crepitation | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2005 | — | 1 | 0 | 15 | — | North‐West Slam‐Fest 2007 |
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 Critical Defiance | 🇨🇱 Chile | — | 2013 | Death Metal / Heavy Metal | 1 | 0 | 6 | — | Parkcrest / Critical Defiance 2015 |
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 Crom | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1992 | Grindcore / Powerviolence | 0 | 1 | 7 | — | Agoraphobic Nosebleed / Crom 2009 |
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| C Cromm | 🇦🇹 Austria | — | 1994 | — | 1 | 0 | 16 | — | Creation of a Dark Age 1994 |
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    Crossfaith | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 2006 | Metalcore / Post-Hardcore | 6 | 4 | 87 | — | AЯK 2024 |
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    Crowbar | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1990 | Sludge Metal / Doom Metal | 13 | 0 | 136 | — | Zero and Below 2022 |
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    Crown Magnetar | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2017 | Deathcore / Death Metal | 4 | 2 | 50 | 3.5 / 5.0 | The Hollowing of Godflesh 2026 |
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    Crown the Empire | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2010 | Metalcore / Post-Hardcore | 5 | 1 | 62 | — | DOGMA 2023 |
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    Cruel Force | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | 2008 | Thrash Metal / Heavy Metal | 4 | 0 | 36 | — | Haneda 2026 |
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 CRYPT CITY | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 2009 | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | EarthQuaker Devices Presents: Boris | Relaxer | Crypt City | Lisa Bella Donna 2019 |
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    Cryptic Shift | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2013 | Progressive Metal / Technical Death Metal | 2 | 3 | 22 | — | Overspace & Supertime 2026 |
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    Cryptopsy | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | 1992 | Technical Death Metal / Death Metal | 9 | 0 | 81 | 3.0 / 5.0 | An Insatiable Violence 2025 |
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 Cryptosis | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | — | 2020 | Technical Thrash Metal | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Transmissions of Chaos 2021 |
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    Crystal Lake | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 2002 | Metalcore / Nu Metal | 8 | 3 | 98 | — | The Weight of Sound 2026 |
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    Cult of Luna | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1998 | Post-Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal | 10 | 0 | 84 | — | The Long Road North 2022 |
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    Currents | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2012 | Metalcore / Progressive Metal | 3 | 5 | 67 | — | Worlds Away 2026 |
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| C Cutting Pink With Knives | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2004 | Grindcore | 0 | 1 | 14 | — | Rolo Tomassi / Cutting Pink With Knives 2007 |
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    Cynic | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1987 | Progressive Metal / Jazz Fusion | 4 | 3 | 57 | 5.0 / 5.0 | Ascension Codes 2021 |
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 Damaged Goods | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Beatdown Hardcore / Metalcore | 0 | 1 | 6 | — | Knocked Loose / Damaged Goods 2015 |
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    Dance Gavin Dance | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2005 | Post-Hardcore / Swancore | 11 | 1 | 146 | 4.3 / 5.0 | Pantheon 2025 |
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    Dark Fortress | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | 1994 | Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal | 8 | 1 | 90 | — | Spectres From the Old World 2020 |
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    Dark Funeral | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1993 | Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal | 7 | 0 | 68 | — | We Are the Apocalypse 2022 |
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    Dark Moor | 🇪🇸 Spain | — | 1993 | Power Metal / Symphonic Metal | 11 | 2 | 141 | — | Origins 2018 |
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    Dark Tranquillity | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1989 | Melodic Death Metal / Death Metal | 13 | 4 | 159 | 4.5 / 5.0 | Endtime Signals 2024 |
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    Darkest Hour | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1995 | Melodic Death Metal / Melodic Metalcore | 11 | 7 | 140 | — | Perpetual | Terminal 2024 |
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    Darko US | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2020 | Deathcore / Metalcore | 5 | 3 | 85 | — | CUCKOO 2026 |
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    Darkthrone | 🇳🇴 Norway | — | 1986 | Black Metal / Heavy Metal | 23 | 0 | 182 | 3.4 / 5.0 | Pre‐Historic Metal 2026 |
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 Dave Edwardson | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Avant-Garde Metal / Black Metal | 1 | 0 | 5 | — | Loüm 2017 |
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 Dawncore | 🇭🇺 Hungary | — | 1993 | — | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Where Heroes Go to Die 2002 |
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