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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Morbus Mysticus is a black metal band from Finland, formed in 2023. They channel dark, mystical black metal from the depths of the Finnish scene.
Morcaint is a atmospheric black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Morcolac is a black metal project from Pavia in Lombardy, formed in 2021. Named after the Romanian werewolf-like creature, the project channels Eastern European folklore into Italian black metal.
Mord is a black metal act from Bystřice pod Hostýnem, Czech Republic, active since 2013. Their sound channels raw, uncompromising black metal ferocity from the Moravian highlands, a region with deep roots in the Czech extreme metal underground.
A black metal project from Oberkirch in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, Mordak has been crafting dark compositions since 2019. The project channels the ancient, foreboding atmosphere of the Schwarzwald into cold black metal.
Ypsilanti, Michigan's Mordake deal in raw black metal stripped to its most primitive and abrasive essentials, operating since 2015 within the American underground's lo-fi black metal tradition. Their sound prioritizes atmosphere through harshness rather than polish, keeping the music deliberately ugly and confrontational.
Mordakon is a black and death metal band from London, England, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal from the UK capital's underground.
San Jose's Mordant Rapture occupy a technically demanding intersection of symphonic, black, and death metal, weaving orchestral arrangements into dense, precise extreme metal compositions since 2018. Their technical ambition and multi-layered approach set them apart from the Bay Area underground's more straightforward acts.
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