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This San Antonio death metal outfit has been active since 2015, adding to the city's historically rich extreme metal legacy with straightforward, meat-and-bones death metal.
A brutal death metal and grindcore act from Kazan, Mortalized has been delivering punishing extremity since 2018. The band channels the Volga-Ural region's underground intensity into blast-driven compositions.
Mortally Infected is a brutal death metal band from Bratislava, Slovakia, formed in 2008. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
River City, Florida's Mortar play heavy metal with a punk-informed edge, a 2024 act whose raw, no-nonsense approach connects the aggression of punk with the riff-driven simplicity of traditional heavy metal.
A melodic death metal act from the small town of Säkylä in southwestern Finland, Mortare brings sweeping harmonies and aggressive rhythms to the Scandinavian melodeath tradition. Active since 2013, the band channels rural Finnish solitude into emotionally resonant compositions.
Based in Styria, Mortary blend death, doom, and melodic death metal into a slow-burning, atmospheric style. The band has released material through Bandcamp, carving out a niche in the Austrian underground with a sound that bridges the funeral pacing of doom with the melodic sensibilities of the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
Mortaryon is a black and death metal band from East Anglia, England, formed in 2019. They forge extreme metal from the flatlands of eastern England.
Mortavik is a death and doom metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2021. They craft crushing doom-death from the Lancashire seaside town.
Morte Profana is a death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2023. They forge profane death metal darkness from the Finnish capital.
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