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A thrash metal act from Rennes with black and death metal influences, Morkelvyz has been delivering aggressive, multi-faceted extremity since 2013. The band weaves together the speed of thrash with the darkness of black metal and the heaviness of death metal.
Morlord is a blackened death/thrash metal band from Bydgoszcz, Poland, formed in 2023. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Philadelphia's Moros play crushing sludge and doom metal since 2015, drawing on the Greek deity of fate their name invokes to deliver slow, suffocating heaviness from a city with one of the Northeast's most vibrant heavy underground communities.
A thrash metal act from Uppsala, Morphetik has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2020. The band channels shape-shifting intensity into dynamic thrash from the university city.
Morpheus Gift is a power and thrash metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2015. Their debut concept album Defiance Divine explores themes of resistance and divine conflict through atmospheric, melodic thrash metal compositions.
Morrath is a thrash/death metal band from Leszno, Poland, formed in 2021. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Morrigan is a thrash/death metal band from Klabava, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. Named after the Irish war goddess, their sound merges the speed and precision of thrash with death metal's crushing brutality.
Mors Ultima is a thrash and death metal band from Bompas, France, formed in 2024. Their Latin name meaning "final death" captures the relentless extremity of their thrash-death assault.
San Antonio crossover thrash band Morta, formed in 2021, channel the pit-ready aggression of hardcore punk into a thrash metal framework that keeps the energy volatile and the tempos punishing. They're part of a healthy wave of Texas acts reclaiming the crossover sound with serious conviction.
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