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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Charlotte, North Carolina's Moraia have been fusing groove metal's hard-hitting rhythmic punch with progressive metal's structural ambition since 2022, carving out a niche in the Southeast's developing heavy underground.
Moral Sense is a thrash and groove metal band from Southampton, England, formed in 2011. They blend thrash metal's aggression with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Mordrake is a band from Bristol, England, formed in 2014, having evolved from melodic death and groove metal into melodic blackened death metal. Their stylistic deepening reflects an increasing embrace of black metal's atmospheric intensity.
Morganha is a thrash/groove metal band from Gubbio (Perugia), Italy, formed in 2025. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
A death/groove metal act from Bergen, Morgrim has been delivering rhythmically charged aggression since 2007. The band channels the fjord city's musical heritage into heavy, groove-laden death metal.
Mormegil is a melodic death and groove metal band from Grimsby, England, formed in 2018. Named after the Tolkien sword, they deliver powerful melodic death-groove metal.
Mortal Remains are a groove and thrash metal band out of Queens, New York City, fusing the head-down punch of groove metal with thrash aggression rooted in the NYC underground.
Mortal Talking is a death and groove metal band from Erfurt, Germany, formed in 2024. They combine death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic punch and headbanging momentum.
Sioux City, Iowa's Morthereon blend melodic death metal's hook-driven intensity with the mid-paced heaviness of groove metal, carving a distinctive space for themselves in the Midwestern extreme underground since 2017.
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