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Monster Coyote were a power trio who built a following in the South American stoner/sludge underground with their debut album The Howling (2012) and the follow-up Neckbreaker (2015), the latter earning positive notices beyond the region. Active until around 2018, the band performed at major Brazilian festivals including Festival DoSol and toured across South America before splitting up.
A goregrind act out of Los Angeles, Monster Creamer formed in 2025 and lean into the deliberately absurd, grotesque end of grindcore, delivering blastbeat-heavy noise with all the restraint the genre demands — which is none.
Oakland's Monster God have been churning out doom and sludge metal since 2017, harnessing the Bay Area's legacy of slow, heavy punishment — massive riffs dragged through distortion and misery in equal measure.
Formed in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1989 by vocalist and guitarist Dave Wyndorf, Monster Magnet helped establish the template for stoner rock with their debut Spine of God (1991) and Superjudge (1993). Their 1998 album Powertrip crossed into mainstream success, earning a gold certification and placing the single Negasonic Teenage Warhead on heavy MTV rotation. Wyndorf remains the sole consistent member across eleven studio albums, and the band is widely credited as one of the genre's founding acts.
Monster Mash channel the early German speed/thrash scene — citing Vectom, early Blind Guardian, and Iron Angel as touchstones — with high-energy performances anchored by the versatile vocalist Lion. The band surfaced with the demo He Gambled with Satan and Lost, a three-song statement that mixes traditional and extreme thrash with tight cohesion.
A New Jersey solo project launched in 2020, Monster Mike occupies the fertile space between heavy metal and progressive metal, favoring ambitious arrangements and technical flourish alongside traditional metal muscle.
Groove metal out of Yonkers, New York since 2007, Monster X bring downtuned, mid-tempo heaviness to a Hudson Valley city with blue-collar grit built into the sound — infectious rhythm, thick riffs, and a hard-hitting attitude.
Monstera is a death and thrash metal band from Sillamäe, Estonia, formed in 2016. They forge aggressive extreme metal drawing from both death and thrash metal traditions.
Monsterbrau is a death metal and grindcore act from Roanne in the Loire department, active since 2018. The band pairs death metal heaviness with grindcore's compact fury, delivering short, punishing bursts of extremity.
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