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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.
Kaiserslautern's Mull is a goregrind project dedicated to the most repulsive end of extreme music, grinding out short, visceral bursts of noise since 2022. The act revels in the low-fidelity traditions of the genre, favoring blast beats and guttural vocals.
Salt Lake City goregrind and death metal outfit Multicyst formed in 2023, channeling the most grotesque end of the grindcore spectrum with a gore-fixated intensity that stands out sharply against Utah's more conservative cultural backdrop.
Mumakil is a deathgrind juggernaut from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2004 and signed to Relapse Records. Across releases like "Behold the Failure" (2009) and the 24-track "Flies Will Starve" (2013), they deliver relentless blasting fury that established them as one of Europe's premier grindcore acts.
A death metal and grindcore act from the small Tver Oblast town of Kimry, Mumblegore has been delivering visceral compositions since 2017. Named after the mumblecore film movement filtered through horror, the band brings extreme music to a decidedly unlikely setting.
Ottumwa, Iowa death/grind band Mummifier has been keeping the flag flying for Midwest extremity since 2009, delivering punishing blasts and down-tuned brutality from one of the more unlikely addresses in American metal geography.
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