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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Portland raw black metal project Morosity strips the genre down to its most hostile and primitive elements, embracing lo-fi production and venomous aggression since forming in 2011. They represent the DIY, under-the-radar ethos that has long defined Portland's underground metal community.
A raw black metal project from Kyiv, Morrokk has been crafting primitive, lo-fi compositions since 2016. The project channels the Ukrainian capital's underground intensity into stripped-down black metal aggression.
Mortal Vail is an Illinois raw black metal project launched in 2021, dealing in deliberately lo-fi, abrasive black metal that prioritizes atmosphere and hostility over polish.
Montana's Morte Hominis is a raw black metal project formed in 2021, producing harsh, primitive recordings that capitalize on the region's isolation to deliver suitably bleak and abrasive extremity.
Morte Lune is a raw black metal and dark ambient project from Cumbria, England, active since 2009. They blend lo-fi black metal with dark ambient atmospheres from the Lake District region.
A one-woman raw black metal project by Null (Iarly Patricio), Mortem Solis deals in occultism and solitude through a deliberately lo-fi, old-school aesthetic that drew notice from the international underground press. The cassette demo "Lamentos do Alvorecer" was released in 2023 through Anti You Rec, Apokalipse Kotidiano, and Fat Zombie.
Mortespermia deal in aggressively lo-fi, necro black metal that draws heavily from the second-wave aesthetic — raw production, occult and left-hand-path lyrical themes, and an uncompromising underground ethos. Their 2016 cassette demo xXx Raw xXx, pressed to 66 copies on Depressive Illusions Records, was followed by the 2019 split O Miasma Misantropo das Covas on Kult of Bloody Rites, placing them firmly within the global raw black metal tape-trading underground.
Mortido is a raw black metal project from Yekaterinburg, active since 2015. Named after Freud's death drive concept, the project channels psychological self-destruction into primitive, lo-fi black metal.
A raw black metal project active since 2003, Mortification traffic in the most primitive and caustic strain of the genre, stripping production to bare wire and leaning hard into the lo-fi, venomous spirit of underground black metal.
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