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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Maryland metalcore and death metal hybrid project formed in 2022, blending the hook-driven intensity of metalcore with genuine death metal brutality rather than mere aesthetic borrowing. Their Bandcamp handle — morbideityhc — signals a hardcore-informed sensibility running underneath the heaviness.
Standing Rock, New Mexico raw black metal project born in 2020, channeling the lo-fi fury and isolation of the rawer black metal underground from an unusual and geographically remote vantage point. Their location in Standing Rock adds a stark, desert-bound bleakness to the genre's already nihilistic core.
Chicago death metal band formed in 2024, entering one of the Midwest's most historically rich extreme metal cities with a project built firmly on the genre's foundational values. A brand-new act in a city that produced landmark death metal in the early 1990s, they carry that legacy forward.
Morbidium is a brutal death metal band from Dolný Kubín, Slovakia, formed in 2023. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
A black metal project from the small Alsatian village of Barembach, Morbidlands channels the dark forests of the Vosges mountains into atmospheric extremity since 2022. The project merges nature-inspired ambience with raw black metal aggression.
A grindcore and death metal act from Stockton-on-Tees in the northeast, Morbidlord has been grinding out visceral extremity since 2021. The band channels the industrial spirit of Teesside into short, punishing bursts of noise.
Morbidoom trace their roots back to 1993, making them one of the older black metal outfits from the interior of Minas Gerais. The band documented their early phase through the demo tapes Seven Swords of Lucifer (1995) and Ares... The Call of War (1999), drawing on warrior mythology and occult themes before going dormant and eventually returning to activity around 2015.
A thrash metal act from the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, Morbidvirus emerged in 2025 with a pandemic-era name. The band delivers contagious, aggressive thrash from the Podolian heartland.
Morbific is a filthy death metal trio from the small eastern Finnish town of Kitee, channeling the putrid spirit of Autopsy, Funebre, and Undergang into festering, cavernous compositions. Since their 2020 debut, they have rapidly become one of Finland's most celebrated underground death metal acts, releasing three full-lengths of grotesque, old-school extremity through labels like Memento Mori and Pulverised Records.
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