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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New Jersey black metal and punk hybrid Moroi formed in 2020, channeling the raw, stripped-down ferocity of black metal's punk roots with a confrontational urgency that keeps the music more physical than cerebral.
Philadelphia's Moros play crushing sludge and doom metal since 2015, drawing on the Greek deity of fate their name invokes to deliver slow, suffocating heaviness from a city with one of the Northeast's most vibrant heavy underground communities.
Morose Death is a death metal act from the Silesian mountain town of Kłodzko, formed in 2021. The band delivers mournful, crushing death metal from the Kłodzko Valley.
Raleigh death metal act Morose Vitality have been grinding since 2013 with a focus on straightforward, riff-driven brutality rooted in the classic death metal tradition. Their work carries the blunt momentum of a band that values conviction over complexity.
Morost is a progressive death metal act from Ljubljana, active since 2014. The band delivers technically ambitious compositions from the Slovenian capital.
Middletown, New York death metal veterans Morpheus Descends are one of the genre's more obscure cult bands, delivering crushing, down-tuned riffs rooted in the early-90s death metal template. Their revival activity since 2015 keeps that old-school brutality alive for a new generation of fans.
Morphia is a atmospheric death/doom metal band from Epe, the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Morphogenetic Malformation is a brutal death metal band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2014. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Morrath is a thrash/death metal band from Leszno, Poland, formed in 2021. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
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