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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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Chicago's Monolith have been at the intersection of progressive and thrash metal since 1993, one of the longer-tenured acts in the city's underground, built on technical riffing and ambitious song structures.
Hailing from Lake County, Indiana, this progressive metal act has been active since 1993, pursuing complex arrangements and shifting time signatures with the patience and density the name implies.
Based in Farmingdale, New York, Monolith Zero formed in 2020 and pursue progressive metal with an emphasis on layered composition and dynamic shifts, channeling Long Island's quiet suburbs into expansive instrumental architecture.
Monoptera is a blackened progressive thrash and death metal band from Bedfordshire, England, formed in 2024. They blend blackened aggression with progressive complexity across thrash and death metal.
Orlando's Monotheist have been blending progressive and death metal since 2012, channeling Florida's extreme metal pedigree through a technical, compositionally ambitious lens that rewards close listening.
Boulder, Colorado's Mons Absconditus — Latin for 'the hidden mountain' — have been crafting atmospheric and progressive black metal since 2015, weaving cerebral song structures through the kind of high-altitude grandeur that defines their home terrain.
A New Jersey solo project launched in 2020, Monster Mike occupies the fertile space between heavy metal and progressive metal, favoring ambitious arrangements and technical flourish alongside traditional metal muscle.
Philadelphia's Monsters Eat People formed in 2018 and pursue a progressive/post-metal blend characterized by sprawling song structures, dynamic contrasts, and the atmospheric density that the Philly underground has cultivated for decades.
Monstrvm is a progressive death metal act from Bielsko-Biała in southern Poland, formed in 2025. The band delivers technically ambitious death metal with the archaic spelling of their monstrous name.
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