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Cleveland, Ohio's Mutilation Barbecue serve up crude, foul-tempered death metal with the grimy sensibility the name implies, keeping things filthy and uncompromising since their 2021 formation.
Brooklyn's Mutilation Rites have carved a reputation since 2011 for their ferocious black/death hybrid — corrosive tremolo riffing and blast-beat fury filtered through New York City's underground extremity.
Buffalo, New York's Mutilation Station blend melodic black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality, drawing on the region's frigid winters to inform their dissonant, layered approach since 2022.
Mutilators is a melodic black and death metal band from Ingolstadt, Germany, active since 2009. They blend the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian black-death with aggressive German underground intensity.
Toledo, Ohio death metal act Mutilatred have been grinding out meat-and-potatoes death metal since 2014, favoring down-tuned brutality and blunt force over technical ornamentation.
Medford, Oregon's Mutilatrix are a fresh 2025 arrival in the slam and brutal death metal underground, stacking bowel-churning low-end slams atop the surgical gore-driven extremity the genre demands.
Leesburg, Virginia's Mvrdvrkvltvr pursue a blackened death metal assault since 2020, their deliberately obscured name matching the dense, misanthropic fog they generate across their underground output.
MX Project is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Portugal, formed in 2025. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
My Andromeda is a melodic doom/death metal band from Ust-Labinsk, Russia, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
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