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Morbid Atrophy is a death, black, and thrash metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2011. They forge aggressive extreme metal spanning death, black, and thrash traditions.
Boston's Morbid Blood take the blackened thrash template — vicious riffing, raw production, first-wave black metal aesthetics slammed into thrash's speed — and have been honing that caustic sound since their 2013 formation.
Morbid Blood Kult is a black and death metal band from the Essen-Bochum area of Germany, formed in 2013, fusing war metal fury with black-death aggression. Their releases Bestial Ritual and War Spitting Gods deliver unrelenting extremity through limited underground releases on AlphaGoat Records.
Morbid Butcher is a death metal and grindcore band from Finsterwalde, Germany, formed in 1998, navigating numerous lineup changes across two decades of underground extremity. Their debut Extreme Mischmasch Terror captures their raw, chaotic blend of death, grind, and punk.
Vineland, New Jersey's Morbid Cross have been delivering straight-ahead thrash metal since 2019, keeping the genre's no-frills riff-first approach alive in a state with a long history of underground thrash activity.
Morbid Cult is a black metal band from Metz, France, formed in 2014. They channel dark, ritualistic black metal from the Lorraine region.
Merrick, New York's Morbid Curiosity began with death metal and grindcore before expanding into alternative metal and hardcore territory — a restless band formed in 2020 that resists settling into any single extreme subgenre.
Ferocious Thrash Metal from Alice.
Washington state black metal act formed in 2016, channeling raw aggression through a grim, uncompromising approach to the genre. Their Bandcamp output reflects an underground sensibility rooted in the Pacific Northwest's isolated atmosphere.
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