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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Morhaat is a black metal act from the industrial Ural city of Magnitogorsk, active since 2019. The band channels the city's steel-forging heritage into cold, aggressive black metal.
Morhemia is a black metal project from the Czech Republic, active since 2010. Their sound draws from the raw, atmospheric traditions of black metal, channeling the genre's cold intensity through the Czech underground.
A Polish black metal project, Morhogg has been crafting dark compositions since 2015. The project delivers atmospheric black metal.
Parkersburg, West Virginia's Mori Solis play melodic black metal with a dramatic, sweeping sensibility since 2022, blending fierce aggression with melody-forward riffing in a state not widely known for extreme metal output.
Moriar is a black metal project from the Alpine town of Feltre in the Belluno province, formed in 2024. The project crafts atmospheric black metal from the dramatic mountain landscape of the Dolomites.
Phoenix's Moribund Dawn have pursued melodic black metal since 2021, fusing scorching intensity with sweeping melodic lines in the sunbaked desert environment that increasingly serves as fertile ground for extreme metal in Arizona.
Moribund Mysticism is a black metal project from Bern, Switzerland, self-described as creating "black metal of the digital age." Their releases "Crop Circle Black Metal" and "Dead Thought" channel atmospheric darkness and existential isolation into a contemporary take on the genre that trades traditional tropes for introspective, digitally-informed textures.
Moribund Oblivion is a black metal band from Böblingen, Germany, formed in 2002. With over two decades of activity, they remain a persistent force in the German black metal underground.
Chattanooga black metal act Moribundus Christus have trafficked in raw, uncompromising blasphemy since 2017, bringing an earnest and stripped-back orthodoxy to the genre from a Southern city with a small but committed underground scene.
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