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Named for the vengeful narrator of Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado,' Irvine's Montresor have been delivering heavy and power metal since 2011 — ambitious, melodic, and steeped in classic metal storytelling from Southern California.
A black metal act from the Volga city of Tolyatti, Montségur takes its name from the Cathar fortress besieged during the Albigensian Crusade. Active since 2013, the band channels medieval heresy themes into atmospheric black metal.
Montuln is a melodic black metal band from Concepción, Chile whose music draws on Mapuche imagery and indigenous themes from southern Chile. The band debuted with Espiritu Ancestral (2012), a seven-track release featuring song titles in Mapudungún, and followed it eight years later with Arquetipo (2020), released on CD through Australis Records.
A Buffalo, New York heavy metal band formed in 2021, Monument began in the city's storied tradition of hard, guitar-driven music and have since evolved toward a harder rock sensibility while retaining their metal roots.
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin's Monument formed in 2021 and play crossover thrash with small-town urgency — fast, stripped-down, and indebted equally to hardcore punk's aggression and thrash metal's technical edge.
Oklahoma City's Monument started out in power metal territory before shifting into a more aggressive death/thrash hybrid, reflecting the kind of restless evolution that has defined the band across their existence since 2021.
Monument of Misanthropy are a technical brutal death metal band from Vienna, Austria, founded in 2010 by scene veteran George 'Misanthrope' Wilfinger and currently signed to Transcending Obscurity Records. The band has built a reputation for concept albums rooted in true-crime subject matter: 'Unterweger' explores the crimes of Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, while 'Vile Postmortem Irrumatio' (2024) centers on Ed Kemper. Their approach combines extreme brutality with meticulous technical construction.
A New England drone/funeral doom project active since 2005, Monument of Urns specialize in extreme slowness and oppressive atmosphere — long-form compositions where texture and tonal weight matter more than conventional song structure.
Denver's Monumental Discharge formed in 2020 and specialize in slam and brutal death metal, delivering the genre's characteristically downtuned, bowel-shaking low end and guttural vocals against a backdrop of Mile High city extremity.
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