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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.
A grindcore and death metal act from Móstoles on the outskirts of Madrid, Mortaja — Spanish for 'shroud' — grinds out short, punishing bursts of extremity. Active since 2017, the band maintains the low-fidelity fury of classic grindcore.
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.
Las Vegas's Mortician are a long-running brutal death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2002, known for machine-gun drumming, pulverizing down-tuned guitars, and horror-obsessed lyrical themes drawn from cult films and splatter fiction.
Baltimore's Mortuaria, formed in 2025, fuse death metal's crushing density with grindcore's explosive brevity, emerging from Maryland's storied extreme metal underground with a debut that wastes no time on subtlety.
Templeton, California grindcore act Mortuary Moonshine, formed in 2023, bring short, fast, and chaotic blasts of noise to the Central Coast underground, combining grindcore's trademark speed and aggression with a name that hints at backwoods grime.
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