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Little Rock, Arkansas heavy and thrash metal act Mortalus formed in 2018, bringing classic metal grit to a Southern scene not always associated with the genre's harder-edged traditions.
River City, Florida's Mortar play heavy metal with a punk-informed edge, a 2024 act whose raw, no-nonsense approach connects the aggression of punk with the riff-driven simplicity of traditional heavy metal.
Crystal Lake, Illinois thrash metal band Mortar deal in straight-faced, aggressive thrash rooted in the Midwest's workmanlike underground scene.
Operating out of Rondônia's small but tight-knit metal community, Morte Lenta plays raw, no-frills thrash with roots in Destruction, Slayer, and early Sepultura. The band released a demo in 2016 and has continued building a catalog rooted in the stripped-down, aggressive side of the genre.
A heavy/thrash metal act from the industrial corridor between Kamp-Lintfort and Duisburg, Morte Sicuro fuses aggressive thrash tempos with traditional heavy metal structure. Formed in 2013, they bring a bilingual edge to the Ruhr area underground.
Morte Silmoris is a thrash metal act from the small western Hungarian town of Répcelak, active since 2019. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the rural tranquility of the Kisalföld region.
Morteferum is a death/thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2017. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
One of the oldest extreme metal bands in Paraná, Morthal trace their origins to 1987 and are often cited as the pioneer of the death/thrash style in the state, performing shows as far as Brasília and Asunción in the mid-1990s and releasing a split LP with Tumulto in 1992 that drew national attention in the underground press. After roughly 18 years of inactivity, the band reformed with vocalist Nilton Bobato and guitarist Zepa Costa among its ranks, picking up where their gritty, war-themed death/thrash left off.
Morthifera is a thrash metal band formed in 2010 in González Catán, Greater Buenos Aires, by drummer Cristian Romero along with guitarist Sergio Noriega. The band built their name on socially charged, working-class-rooted thrash, releasing the EP Régimen de Sangre in 2011, the full-length Basurero Humano through Icarus Music in 2016, and the independently released Apócrifo in 2019.
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