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Coven (band)
Coven is an American occult rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, fronted by Jinx Dawson. Its 1969 debut Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls introduced devil horns, inverted crosses, and "Hail Satan!" to rock, predating Black Sabbath.
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth: English extreme metal band formed 1991 in Suffolk, led by Dani Filth. Fourteen albums from The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994) to The Screaming of the Valkyries (2025); Grammy-nominated for Nymphetamine.
Crazy Town
Crazy Town, American rap-rock/nu-metal band from Los Angeles formed in 1995 by Bret 'Epic' Mazur and Seth 'Shifty Shellshock' Binzer; known for the 2001 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single 'Butterfly' sampling RHCP's 'Pretty Little Ditty' and the platinum debut The Gift of Game.
Crimson Glory
Crimson Glory is an American progressive heavy metal band formed in 1983 in Sarasota, Florida, known for its silver masks, the 1988 album Transcendence, and pioneers of American progressive metal.
Cro-Mags
Cro-Mags: New York hardcore band formed 1981, led by Harley Flanagan; debut The Age of Quarrel (1986) and Best Wishes (1989) founded NYHC and crossover thrash; Flanagan won the name in a 2019 lawsuit.
Crowbar (American band)
Crowbar is an American sludge metal band formed in 1990 in New Orleans, Louisiana, built on slow, heavily downtuned riffs around founding member Kirk Windstein.
Crown Magnetar
Crown Magnetar: American deathcore band from Colorado on Unique Leader Records, blending brutal and technical death metal; albums Everything Bleeds (2023) and The Hollowing of Godflesh (2026), EPs Alone In Death and Punishment.
Crown the Empire
Crown the Empire (Crown The Empire) is an American metalcore band formed in 2010 in Dallas, Texas, on Rise Records, known for concept albums The Fallout and The Resistance and now a duo of Andy Leo and Brandon Hoover.
Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy is a Canadian brutal and technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1988 and best known for its landmark 1996 album None So Vile.
Cryptosis
Cryptosis, formerly the old-school thrash band Distillator, is a Dutch progressive thrash metal trio from Enschede, Netherlands, formed in 2020 and signed to Century Media Records.
Cult of Luna
Cult of Luna is a Swedish atmospheric sludge and post-metal band from Umeå, formed in 1999, known for long, slow-building songs and albums including Salvation and Vertikal.
Currents
Currents is an American melodic metalcore band formed in Connecticut in 2011, fronted by Brian Wille and signed to SharpTone Records, which broke through with the 2020 album The Way It Ends.
Cynic (band)
Cynic is an American progressive metal band formed in Miami in 1987, led by Paul Masvidal. Known for the landmark 1993 album Focus, which fused technical death metal with jazz fusion, plus Traced in Air, Kindly Bent to Free Us, and Ascension Codes.
Damageplan
Damageplan, originally named New Found Power, was a short-lived Dallas groove metal band formed in 2003 by Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul after Pantera; its only album New Found Power (2004) reached number 38, and the band ended after Darrell was shot on stage in Columbus, Ohio in December 2004.
Danzig (band)
Danzig: American gothic heavy metal band formed 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey, by Glenn Danzig (ex-Misfits, Samhain) for Def American; known for "Mother," Danzig III, and Danzig Sings Elvis.
Dark Angel (band)
Dark Angel is an American thrash metal band from Downey, California, formed as Shellshock in 1981. Known for Darkness Descends (1986) and Time Does Not Heal (1991), it returned in 2025 with Extinction Level Event.
Dark Divine (band)
Dark Divine is an American metalcore band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 2021, also called a spooky hard rock band. Known for horror themes, the Halloweentown EP, and albums Deadly Fun (2023) and Undead Melody (2026) on Thriller Records; distinct from Like Moths to Flames' 2017 album of the same name.
Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral: Swedish black metal band formed 1993 in Stockholm by Lord Ahriman and Blackmoon; seven albums from The Secrets of the Black Arts (1996) to We Are the Apocalypse (2022), Satanist themes, clean production, Century Media label.
Dark Moor
Dark Moor, Spanish symphonic power metal band from Madrid founded by Enrik García in 1993; known for The Hall of the Olden Dreams, The Gates of Oblivion, the Elisa C. Martín and Alfred Romero vocal eras, and 2026 lineup changes.
Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity, formerly Septic Broiler, is a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in Billdal near Gothenburg in 1989, one of the Gothenburg sound's three pioneers with At the Gates and In Flames; The Gallery (1995) is its landmark album, and Endtime Signals (2024) its latest.
Darko US
Darko US, an American experimental deathcore duo formed in 2020 by Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, ex-Lorna Shore) and Josh "Baby J" Miller (Emmure), releases electronic-infused deathcore including Darko, Oni, Starfire, Oni 2, and the Dethmask EPs, all independent; distinct from other acts named Darko.
Darkthrone
Darkthrone: Norwegian black metal duo from Kolbotn (Fenriz and Nocturno Culto), formed 1986 as Black Death; the unholy trinity of 1992-1994 albums founded second-wave black metal; no live shows since 1996.
dArtagnan
dArtagnan is a German folk rock band from Nuremberg, formed in 2015, whose "Musketier-Rock" with bagpipes and mandolin has produced three German top 5 albums and a Wacken appearance.
Dead Poet Society
Dead Poet Society is an American alternative rock band formed in 2013 at Berklee College of Music in Boston and now based in Los Angeles, known for fretless guitars.
Deafheaven
Deafheaven, an American blackgaze band formed in San Francisco in 2010 by George Clarke and Kerry McCoy, blends black metal with shoegaze and post-rock on albums from Sunbather (2013) to Lonely People With Power (2025).
Death (metal band)
Death (metal band), American death metal pioneers also called Mantas, founded by Chuck Schuldiner in Florida in 1983; seven albums 1987-1998, from Scream Bloody Gore to The Sound of Perseverance; Schuldiner died December 2001.
Death Angel
Death Angel is an American thrash metal band formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose debut The Ultra-Violence appeared in 1987 before a 2001 reunion.
Decapitated (band)
Decapitated is a Polish death metal band formed in 1996 in Krosno by teenage brothers Wacław "Vogg" and Witold Kiełtyka, known for albums like Winds of Creation.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
The Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is an annual two-day festival pairing extreme metal bands with craft breweries, organized by Decibel Magazine in Philadelphia since 2017.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard: English hard rock band formed 1977 in Sheffield within the NWOBHM, known for Pyromania (1983) and Hysteria (1987), over 110 million albums sold, 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.