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Morbid Executioner is a death metal act from Stockholm, formed in 2023. The band delivers the kind of lethal, aggressive death metal their executioner name demands.
San Diego death metal band with roots going back to 2011, representing the city's long-running appetite for crushing, riff-driven brutality. Their name and decade-plus lifespan signal a project committed to the old-school death metal tradition rather than any modern reinvention.
Morbid Grave is a death metal band from Denmark, formed in 2021. They channel old-school death metal's filth and fury through crushing, tomb-echoing compositions.
A death metal act from Uppsala, Morbid Illusion has been delivering dark, crushing compositions since 2015. The band channels the deceptive imagery of their name into suffocating death metal.
Longview, Texas act formed in 2014, stacking technical death metal intricacy on top of a deathcore framework for a sound that is simultaneously punishing and precisely executed. They represent the East Texas underground's willingness to push extremity beyond genre borders.
Morbid Perversion channel the spirit of Brazilian extremity — Sarcófago, Sex-trash, Holocausto — through a bestial black/death metal attack soaked in sadism and anti-religious perversion. Founded by guitarist/vocalist Sexxxtrash and drummer Lunatic, the band spent a decade releasing tapes and 7" vinyl before collecting that material on the 2021 retrospective Morbid Skills of Evil (A Decade of Desecration), followed by Infamous Dogmas of Sacrifice in 2023.
Morbid Prophecy blend melodic black and death metal in the vein of Scandinavian acts, as evidenced by their recorded cover of Rotting Christ's "Among Two Storms." Their 2018 EP Thou Shalt Die, released through Narcoleptica Productions, showcased five tracks of sweeping, riff-driven extremity that positioned the band as one of the more melodically ambitious acts in the local underground.
South Carolina death metal and grindcore project that surfaced in 2025, blending the gut-punch brevity of grind with the relentless brutality of death metal. An extremely new entry into the underground, their Bandcamp presence signals a raw and confrontational approach.
New York death/thrash metal project formed in 2023, drawing on the punishing intersection of old-school death metal and thrash ferocity. The Tolkien-referencing name hints at a classic-minded approach to a genre combination that never goes out of style.
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