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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Morrigan is a thrash/death metal band from Klabava, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. Named after the Irish war goddess, their sound merges the speed and precision of thrash with death metal's crushing brutality.
Morrighon is a metal band from Paramaribo, Suriname, playing a blend of speed metal and melodic death metal with industrial and thrash influences. The five-piece group released their debut album Silence of Creatures in 2015, recorded and mastered at Rockland Studio in Paramaribo, making them one of the few metal acts to emerge from Suriname.
A melodic black-death metal band from Ninove, East Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2004 and named after the Irish goddess of war. Their discography spans from the demo 'Forgotten Embrace' through the full-length 'Before Light / After Dark' (2014), by which point the band had evolved from a doom-death foundation into a more progressive and melodic sound over a decade of activity.
Mors Ex Mundi is a death metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2024. They channel brutal death metal fury with a freshly forged approach to extreme heaviness.
Mors Silens is a melodic death and black metal band from Mezőberény, Hungary, formed in 2018. They blend melodic death metal with black metal from the Hungarian plains.
Mors Ultima is a thrash and death metal band from Bompas, France, formed in 2024. Their Latin name meaning "final death" captures the relentless extremity of their thrash-death assault.
Hailing from the Ruhr Valley industrial city of Essen, Morsch delivers death metal steeped in urban grit and mechanical aggression. Formed in 2017, the band's name, meaning 'rotten' in German, signals their commitment to putrid, old-school extremity.
Bolesno Grinje is a death metal and grindcore act from the Istrian city of Pula, active since 2002. One of the longer-running extreme acts in Croatia's underground, the band delivers visceral grindcore from the Adriatic peninsula.
Morsus is a death metal act from the Västmanland town of Surahammar, formed in 2025. The band delivers biting, aggressive death metal from central Sweden.
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