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Mortal Peril is a thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2012, with four releases spanning from Of Black Days and Cruel Alliances to 2020's Digital Idol. Their sound fuses classic thrash and heavy metal with socially conscious lyrics addressing war and human conflict.
Mortal Remains are a groove and thrash metal band out of Queens, New York City, fusing the head-down punch of groove metal with thrash aggression rooted in the NYC underground.
Mortal Scepter is a blackened thrash metal band from Dunkirk, France, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's relentless aggression from the northern French coast.
A Vienna-based thrash metal band with roots going back more than a decade, Mortal Strike released the album For the Loud and the Aggressive and earned a slot at Eindhoven Metal Meeting in 2017, gaining international exposure for their unapologetic, five-piece thrash assault. The band has since welcomed a new vocalist while keeping their no-compromise approach intact.
Long Beach, California's Mortal Terror traffic in high-octane speed and thrash metal, channeling the raw kinetic energy of old-school Bay Area and Southern California thrash into a modern framework.
MortalDread emerged from the same orbit as the earlier Goiás underground project Selbstmord, carrying on a tradition of aggressive, uncompromising thrash metal from the center-west of the country. The band released material independently before splitting up, leaving behind a document of the city's underground metal activity.
This Ohio speed and thrash metal band formed in 2021, drawing from classic speed metal's frenetic tempos and the hard-edged attack of early thrash for a driving, old-school sensibility.
Out of Andover, Massachusetts, Mortalis combine death and thrash metal into a bludgeoning hybrid, carrying on a strong New England tradition of aggressive, technically minded extreme metal.
Mortality is a black metal band from Farmington, New Mexico, active since 2015 and operating in the sparse, remote desert Southwest underground with a sound as unforgiving as the landscape.
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