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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Ventura, California's Monotremata have been crafting experimental industrial metal since 2006, incorporating dissonant textures and mechanical rhythms into music that sits at the uncomfortable edge between aggression and abstraction.
Moonfire is a black metal and industrial project from Osnabrück, Germany, formed in 2019. They fuse the rawness of black metal with cold industrial textures and mechanical aggression.
One of the longer-running black metal acts in Southern California, Santa Ana's Mordor have maintained their dark vision since 1994 — an impressive run for the Los Angeles area underground. Their name, drawn from Tolkien's realm of shadow, anchors them in the mythological and fantastical tradition of early European black metal.
Mortiis is a darkwave/dungeon synth, electronic/industrial rock band from Notodden, Norway, formed in 1996. They forge a mechanized sound blending industrial textures with metal aggression.
Philadelphia's Mose Giganticus have been in continuous mutation since 2006, beginning in synth-punk and industrial metal before shifting toward a heavier progressive sludge sound — a band that has always valued sonic restlessness over genre consistency.
Murtuma is an industrial black and doom metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2024. They merge industrial coldness with black and doom metal's oppressive darkness.
Mytox is a industrial metal band from Veenendaal, the Netherlands, formed in 2021. They forge a mechanized sound blending industrial textures with metal aggression.
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