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Minneapolis death metal band Mortic formed in 2017, adding to Minnesota's long tradition of underground extreme metal with a focused, no-frills approach to the genre's core tenets.
Minneapolis's Morticia formed in 2022 and blend heavy metal's melodic sensibility with deathrock's gothic atmosphere, occupying a moody, darkly theatrical corner of the Twin Cities heavy music scene.
Las Vegas's Mortician are a long-running brutal death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2002, known for machine-gun drumming, pulverizing down-tuned guitars, and horror-obsessed lyrical themes drawn from cult films and splatter fiction.
Clifton Park, New York death metal act Morticide formed in 2022, contributing to upstate New York's underground extreme metal community with direct, no-frills death metal aggression.
Morticula Rex is a death/doom metal band from Sicily, Italy, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mortiferian is a death metal band from Medellín, Colombia, active since 2008. The band released their debut demo self-titled in 2008 and their first full-length, Casus Morte, in 2013, followed by a return to activity in 2023 with new singles and the 2025 EP Litaniae Funeris Abyssi. Their music explores themes of death, anti-religion, and occultism.
Mortiferik is a one-man funeral doom project built around the bleakest end of the death/doom spectrum, drawing on the suffocating pace and crushing despair of the genre's key forebears. The project released the "Empire of Sadness Returns" EP and appeared on the "Doomed Serenades" Brazilian doom compilation, marking it as a committed voice in the country's underground doom scene.
A death metal outfit from Queens, New York City, formed in 2021, Mortiferoth channels the borough's dense urban grimness into punishing, no-frills extreme metal with a raw, street-level aggression.
Hailing from Olympia, Washington, Mortiferum deal in a suffocating blend of death and doom metal built on cavernous low-end, glacially slow passages, and sepulchral atmosphere — one of the Pacific Northwest's most oppressive acts since their 2017 formation.
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