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Connecticut's Mortifica, active since 2012 out of Meriden, wield technical death metal with precision and brutality, weaving intricate fretwork and volatile time signatures through relentless death metal heaviness.
Formed in 2012 in Oxnard, California, Mortificado operate at the crossroads of black and death metal, fusing the venomous spite of black metal aesthetics with death metal's pulverizing low-end attack.
Out of Normal, Illinois, Mortificare have been delivering straightforward, uncompromising death metal since 2012 — a Midwest act rooted in the tradition of gut-punch riffing and guttural vocals without genre embellishment.
Detroit's Mortification, formed in 2003, fuse death and thrash metal in the gritty tradition of the Motor City's blue-collar heavy music scene, combining thrash's velocity and riff aggression with death metal's punishing vocal and rhythmic brutality.
Relentless Black Metal from San Antonio.
Based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and active since 2022, this incarnation of Mortified pursues straight-ahead death metal rooted in the Southern California tradition of punishing extremity and underground dedication.
A melodic death metal act from the small Bohemian town of Sušice, Mortifilia has been crafting harmonized extremity since 2012. The band brings Gothenburg-style metal to the Šumava forest region.
Mortify is a doom/death metal band from Au, Switzerland, formed in 2017. Their sound combines the crushing weight of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity, channeling the genre's classic slow-burn heaviness through a Swiss lens.
Mortify is an old-school death metal band from Concepción, Chile, drawing on both classic and progressive influences within the genre. The band released their debut album Mortuary Remains in 2017, followed by their second full-length Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow in 2022.
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