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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Morhaat is a black metal act from the industrial Ural city of Magnitogorsk, active since 2019. The band channels the city's steel-forging heritage into cold, aggressive black metal.
Morhana is a folk metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2022. They weave folk traditions into heavy metal compositions.
Morhelm is a progressive metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2025. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Morhemia is a black metal project from the Czech Republic, active since 2010. Their sound draws from the raw, atmospheric traditions of black metal, channeling the genre's cold intensity through the Czech underground.
A Polish black metal project, Morhogg has been crafting dark compositions since 2015. The project delivers atmospheric black metal.
A death metal act from the industrial city of Dunaújváros on the Danube, MorHord has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2018. The band channels the steel-town grit of their surroundings into crushing death metal.
Morhörr is a thrash metal act from Bratislava, active since 2020. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the Slovak capital.
Parkersburg, West Virginia's Mori Solis play melodic black metal with a dramatic, sweeping sensibility since 2022, blending fierce aggression with melody-forward riffing in a state not widely known for extreme metal output.
Long-running Salinas, California act Moria have been bridging deathcore and death metal since 2004, outlasting countless scene trends to remain a fixture of the Central Valley underground with a brutal, technically grounded sound.
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