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Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (2022)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Out of the Lehigh Valley in New Jersey, Monoceros have been playing progressive heavy metal and hard rock since 2004, bringing a melodic, technically ambitious approach to song craft over two decades of activity.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Monochromatic Residua pursue technical death metal with intricate, precision-driven arrangements, channeling the city's underground metal tradition into complex, unrelenting brutality since 2018.
Monodron is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal act from Oslo, formed in 2021. The band crafts expansive, mind-altering compositions that merge psychedelic textures with crushing doom weight.
Based in Mission, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, Monodyssey bring a heavy sludge metal sound to a region not typically associated with the genre, grinding out thick, abrasive riffs since forming in 2022.
Grinding Progressive Sludge Metal from Denton.
From the small city of Hutchinson, Minnesota, Monogon blend classic heavy metal sensibility with the cold, atmospheric edge of black metal, forging a distinctive sound in an unlikely corner of the Midwest since 2018.
Monograf is a post-metal/rock band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2011. They craft atmospheric, dynamic post-metal compositions.
Chicago's Monolith have been at the intersection of progressive and thrash metal since 1993, one of the longer-tenured acts in the city's underground, built on technical riffing and ambitious song structures.
San Jose's Monolith play heavy and thrash metal forged in the Bay Area tradition since 1993, carrying on a lineage of technically sharp, aggressive metal from one of the genre's most historically significant regions.
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