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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New York death/thrash metal project formed in 2023, drawing on the punishing intersection of old-school death metal and thrash ferocity. The Tolkien-referencing name hints at a classic-minded approach to a genre combination that never goes out of style.
Springfield, Missouri thrash metal band that has been operating since 2017, bringing hard-hitting, riff-driven thrash to the Missouri underground. Their straightforward thrash approach in a city not typically associated with the genre makes them a notable outlier in the Midwest metal scene.
Blistering Thrash Metal from Plano.
Morbid Visions is a heavy/thrash metal and hard rock act from Avesta in Dalarna, active since 2022. The band channels the dark hallucinations of their name into aggressive, riff-driven compositions.
A thrash metal act from the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, Morbidvirus emerged in 2025 with a pandemic-era name. The band delivers contagious, aggressive thrash from the Podolian heartland.
Morbo Chacaleitor is a death/thrash metal band from San Felipe, Chile. The band released two albums in quick succession: Crónicas Macabras in October 2019 and Inconsciente Asesino in September 2020, the latter a six-track record featuring Spanish-language tracks rooted in violent and urban themes.
Morbusdown is a thrash metal and metalcore band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. They fuse thrash metal's velocity with metalcore's intensity, creating a hard-hitting modern extreme sound.
Mordant is a heavy/thrash metal act from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, one of the longer-running acts in the East Midlands metal underground since 2005. The band delivers aggressive, old-school metal with the tenacity that comes from two decades of persistence.
Mordax is a death and thrash metal band from Ribe, Denmark, formed in 2015. They forge an aggressive crossover of death and thrash metal rooted in relentless extremity.
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