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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Moragoth Thanuu is a black metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2021. They channel dark, aggressive black metal from southwest England.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Moraia have been fusing groove metal's hard-hitting rhythmic punch with progressive metal's structural ambition since 2022, carving out a niche in the Southeast's developing heavy underground.
Moraines is a band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2008, having evolved from post-metal into progressive and post-rock. Their creative arc traces a journey from heavy atmospherics toward more expansive progressive territory.
Morak is a gothic/black metal project from Trento in the Dolomites, formed in 2024. The project merges the dark romanticism of gothic metal with the aggression of black metal from the Alpine frontier.
Moral Corruption is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Agrinion, Greece, formed in 2017. They blend melodic death metal with metalcore from western Greece.
A Chicago death metal act founded in 2013, Moral Decay pursue the genre's classic brutal sensibility in a city with a deep underground metal tradition, prioritizing heaviness and aggression over technical flash.
New Bedford, Massachusetts's Moral Decay blend death metal's gravity with grindcore's blunt-force speed and brevity, a combination that's been a fixture of the New England underground since their 2013 formation.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Moral Decay occupy the heavy/thrash overlap, delivering the driving riff-forward attack and punishing tempos of the classic thrash era with a modern heavy metal edge since 2013.
Nashville's Moral Decay pull death metal, thrash, and punk into the same grimy room — a hard-charging collision that's been a staple of the city's underground since 2013, channeling aggression across genre lines.
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