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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Cleveland, Ohio's Muciferous are a 2024 goregrind and death metal project that leans hard into biological horror, piling up suffocating riffs and blastbeats in the tradition of the most viscerally repulsive extreme metal the underground has to offer.
Albany, New York's Mucopus are one of the more enduring acts in brutal death metal and grindcore, combining sub-basement tuned brutality with grind's sheer velocity since 1998 in a relentless assault that has defined their city's extreme underground presence.
Muculords is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Rimini, Italy, formed in 2005. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Mucupurulent is a death metal and grind 'n' roll band from Öhringen, Germany, formed in 2025. They fuse death metal brutality with grinding intensity and rock 'n' roll swagger.
A death metal and grindcore act from the Mediterranean port city of Toulon, Mucus grinds out visceral extremity since 2018. The band's deliberately repulsive name matches their commitment to the most abrasive end of extreme music.
Muggeseggel is a death metal and grindcore band from the Markgräflerland region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2022. Their distinctive hook is performing in regional dialect, and despite their recent formation they have already released a self-titled album (2023), a split with Digest! (2025), and 'Lällekönig' (2025).
Mugrind is a grind/punk band from Barcelona, Spain, operating under the motto 'Dirty Drunk & Grind.' Their releases 'Beautiful Hell Community' and 'Spoko Evillution Porko Dio' deliver a raw, aggressive collision of grindcore and punk from Barcelona's underground scene.
Muilutus is a grindcore and sludge metal act from the Helsinki-Espoo metropolitan area, merging the speed of grindcore with the crushing weight of sludge since 2016. The band's Finnish name signals their commitment to local linguistic identity within extreme music.
New Orleans death metal and grindcore outfit Mule Skinner have been trading in visceral, short-fused extremity since 2014, carrying on the Crescent City's storied tradition of bands that find brutality lurking just beneath the surface.
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