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Mordor Ruido is a grindcore and crust punk band from Madrid, Spain, born in 1991 as a grind-crust outfit with metal influences. Their extensive catalog of live recordings and studio releases documents over three decades of underground crust-grind fury.
MoreGore is a grindcore and death metal act from the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, active since 2009. One of the region's veteran extreme acts, the band has delivered over fifteen years of visceral, blast-driven compositions.
Moretools emerged from the Brasília underground with a self-titled debut that fuses death metal, grindcore, thrash, and hardcore into a relentlessly aggressive whole. The band has shared stages with Krisiun, Onslaught, and Torture Squad, and appeared at major festivals including Porão do Rock.
Los Angeles death metal and grindcore outfit Morgue Breath have been blending the putrid sensibilities of both genres since 2019, applying grindcore's velocity and brevity to death metal's more crushing sonic palette. The LA underground's appetite for extreme crossover sounds gives them fertile ground.
Ohio's Morgue Dweller emerged in 2022 at the intersection of death metal and goregrind, specializing in the kind of grotesque, fast, and filthy material that both genres' most devoted fans demand. Their goregrind influence adds a particularly absurdist horror-movie dimension to the death metal foundation.
Chicago's Morgue Supplier have been channeling the city's storied extreme music history since 2022, fusing death metal brutality with grindcore's concise and chaotic energy into a relentlessly volatile catalog.
Greenville, South Carolina's Morgue Walker bring a chaotic convergence of blackened death metal and grindcore to bear since 2021, favoring short, violent blasts that move between grinding ferocity and corrosive black metal atmosphere.
Out of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, Morguewhore have been shredding the line between grindcore and thrash metal since 2016, delivering frantic, abrasive bursts where speed and aggression take precedence over polish.
Seattle sludge and doom duo Morose lean into the Pacific Northwest's penchant for weight and misery, stacking corrosive low-end with slow, punishing tempos. Formed in 2016, they channel the city's rain-soaked gloom into music that crawls under your skin and refuses to let go.
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