Death metal band from Cambridge, England, formed in 2019. Celestial Sanctuary have built a strong reputation in the UK death metal underground with their old-school, crushing approach.

Technical death metal act from Norway, formed in 2023. Celestial Scourge brings punishing, technically demanding death metal to the Norwegian extreme scene.

Death-doom-stoner act from Nijmegen, with renewed Bandcamp activity since 2020 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Celestial Season is a veteran Dutch doom act, pioneering atmospheric death-doom in the Netherlands.

Melodic death-power metal band from Aix-en-Provence, France. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with power metal hooks from the Provençal heartland.

Melodic death metal band from Kotka, Finland, formed in 2017. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.

Symphonic death metal act from Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border in Russia's Far East, active since 2016. Cellborn merges orchestral elements with death metal from one of the most remote metal scenes on Earth.

Melodic death metal act from Prešov in eastern Slovakia, formed in 2022. Cellearius delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Šariš region.

Celtic Frost formed in Zürich, Switzerland in June 1984 when guitarist Thomas Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Eric Ain dissolved their previous band Hellhammer and rebuilt with more ambitious musical goals. Their first two records, Morbid Tales (1984) and To Mega Therion (1985), were foundational texts for extreme metal, directly influencing the development of black, death, and doom metal. After a long hiatus, the band reformed and released the critically acclaimed Monotheist in 2006 before disbanding permanently in 2008 when Fischer departed to form Triptykon.

Melodic death-power-thrash act from Udine in Friuli, formed in 2020. Celtic Hills blends folk-tinged melodies with aggressive extreme metal in a genre-crossing approach.