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Mon'strum is an avant-garde death metal act from the tiny Groningen village of Eenrum, formed in 2025. The band pushes death metal into experimental territory from the rural Dutch north.
Monachopsis is a technical and melodic death metal band from Leicester, England, formed in 2018. They craft intricate melodic death metal with technical precision.
Monachus is a atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2005. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Monad is a death metal act from Glasgow, active since 2017 and contributing to Scotland's diverse extreme metal landscape. The band delivers aggressive, technically proficient death metal from the country's largest city.
A funeral death-doom metal band from Belgium signed to Aesthetic Death, formed in 2011 by a five-piece lineup committed to a sound they described as crushing and heavy, deliberately removed from the romantic side of the genre. Their debut cassette 'Intellectus Iudicat Veritatem' sold out fifty copies in six days, and their follow-up full-length 'IVIIV' (2017) delivered fifty minutes of devastating slow riffs and melancholic atmosphere across four extended compositions.
Buffalo, New York's Monarch play straight-ahead thrash and heavy metal rooted in the classic American tradition, carrying on the city's working-class metal legacy since their formation in 2014.
Richmond, Virginia's Monarch operate in the sludge and doom space, turning out the kind of slow, feedback-drenched heaviness that fits naturally in a city with a long history of underground heavy music, active since 2014.
Hailing from Torrance in the South Bay of Los Angeles, this Monarch have been playing thrash metal since 2014, delivering the riff-forward intensity and aggression the genre demands.
A New York-based death/doom outfit active since 2014, this incarnation of Monarch traces the slow, cavernous edge where death metal's brutality bleeds into doom's suffocating weight.
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