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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Formed in Seattle in 2023, Mudslide channels the Pacific Northwest's hard rock heritage into aggressive thrash metal, bridging the gap between driving riff-rock and the sharper attack of the genre's classic era.
Mudslider is a progressive thrash, heavy, and death metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2025. They blend progressive ambition with the aggression of thrash, heavy, and death metal.
A San Francisco death-doom project born in 2025, Mudslinger buries melody beneath layers of grinding low-end, pairing cavernous death metal brutality with the suffocating crawl of doom.
Chicago death metal act MudTomb emerged in 2023 with a sound as uncompromising as its name suggests — dense, putrid, and rooted in the old-school underground ethos that the city's scene has quietly nurtured for decades.
A groove, death, and thrash metal band from Namur, Belgium, active from 2010 to 2017 as an independent act. Their lyrical focus on gore, accident, and violence placed them within the abrasive end of the Belgian extreme metal underground, combining the rhythmic punch of groove metal with death metal aggression.
Camas, Washington's Muerte has spent over a decade weaving melodic death metal hooks into metalcore aggression, delivering a sound that carries genuine heaviness without sacrificing songwriting craft.
Muerte por Mil Cortes is a death metal band from Elche, Spain, formed in 2010. Their name meaning "death by a thousand cuts" sets the tone for their brutal, relentless death metal approach.
Muertissima is a death metal act from Paris, active since 2021. The superlative Spanish-inflected name, meaning 'most dead,' channels extreme mortality into aggressive death metal from the French capital.
Mufa is a São Paulo extreme metal act that draws equally from death metal brutality and hardcore aggression, keeping a stable lineup since 2011 while channeling outrage at social rot into relentlessly violent music. Their 2015 debut full-length "Brutality Show", recorded at Magma Studio, showcases their genre-defying blend with tracks like "NarcoViolence" and "Disposable Human Race".
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