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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
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Monolithe is a funeral doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003, having evolved toward melodic death and doom metal. Their pioneering approach to expansive, monolithic doom compositions has made them one of France's most respected extreme doom acts.
An Oregon death metal outfit just getting started in 2026, Monolithic Terror deal in brutal, no-frills death metal aggression, carrying the Pacific Northwest underground's deep roots in extreme metal into the current decade.
Monoptera is a blackened progressive thrash and death metal band from Bedfordshire, England, formed in 2024. They blend blackened aggression with progressive complexity across thrash and death metal.
Orlando's Monotheist have been blending progressive and death metal since 2012, channeling Florida's extreme metal pedigree through a technical, compositionally ambitious lens that rewards close listening.
Monox is a groove and death metal band from Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 2015. They blend groove metal's rhythmic power with death metal's ferocity from the Croatian coast.
A traditional heavy metal band from Kansas City, Missouri, Monster have been playing with energy and directness since 2010, keeping alive the no-frills heavy metal spirit in a Midwestern scene that tends to reward persistence.
Monstera is a death and thrash metal band from Sillamäe, Estonia, formed in 2016. They forge aggressive extreme metal drawing from both death and thrash metal traditions.
Monsterbrau is a death metal and grindcore act from Roanne in the Loire department, active since 2018. The band pairs death metal heaviness with grindcore's compact fury, delivering short, punishing bursts of extremity.
Monstrath play old-school death metal with a heavy debt to Obituary and the brutal American 80s tradition, built on thick riffs and guttural delivery. The band signed to Swedish label Downfall Records and released the single "Child of God" in 2017, followed by the full-length The World Serves to Evil in 2018.
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