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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Boston's Morbid Blood take the blackened thrash template — vicious riffing, raw production, first-wave black metal aesthetics slammed into thrash's speed — and have been honing that caustic sound since their 2013 formation.
Morbid Butcher is a death metal and grindcore band from Finsterwalde, Germany, formed in 1998, navigating numerous lineup changes across two decades of underground extremity. Their debut Extreme Mischmasch Terror captures their raw, chaotic blend of death, grind, and punk.
Vineland, New Jersey's Morbid Cross have been delivering straight-ahead thrash metal since 2019, keeping the genre's no-frills riff-first approach alive in a state with a long history of underground thrash activity.
Ferocious Thrash Metal from Alice.
Morbid Devourment are a death/thrash trio from Brasília who consciously root their sound in the primitive filth of early-80s metal, citing Venom, Hellhammer, and Bulldozer as touchstones. Their 2025 debut EP Deathstrike Rebellion packs nine songs into eighteen minutes of raw, occult-themed extremity, following earlier singles that established the band's violent aesthetic.
San Diego black/thrash metal band active since 2014, blending the venomous attack of first-wave black metal with the driving velocity of thrash. Their sound draws on the sun-scorched ferocity that San Diego's underground scene has quietly cultivated.
Morbid Evil is a thrash/black/death metal band from Reggio Emilia, Italy, formed in 2022. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Morbid Holocaust is a black metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, operating primarily as a one-man project under the name Holocausto. The band released their debut album Atmospheric Armageddon in 2017, recorded at Calaka Records in Valparaíso, and the full-length Conexiones in 2023, the latter tracked between 2021 and 2023 at IIgniter Studios in Limache; they also contributed to the five-band split En el Caos de la Oscuridad alongside Morgue, Kalkü, Beelzebuth, and Ausencia in 2023.
Morbid Joke is a provocative crossover thrash and grindcore outfit from Rauma, Finland, self-described as 'True Finnish Anti-Music' driven by total disgust towards modern music. Their catalog includes releases like 'Fuck The Mainstream, Here's Morbid Joke' and 'The Disgusting Perversions Of The Bourgeoisie,' delivering intentionally abrasive and confrontational sonic assaults.
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