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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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Pelham, Massachusetts' Moriah operate at the intersection of progressive, power, and traditional heavy metal, bringing a sophisticated compositional approach to big melodic structures and soaring arrangements since 2016.
Stuttgart's Morial delivers uncompromising death metal marked by churning riffs and oppressive atmosphere. Operating since 2005, the band represents the sustained underground death metal current running through Baden-Württemberg.
Moriar is a black metal project from the Alpine town of Feltre in the Belluno province, formed in 2024. The project crafts atmospheric black metal from the dramatic mountain landscape of the Dolomites.
Phoenix's Moribund Dawn have pursued melodic black metal since 2021, fusing scorching intensity with sweeping melodic lines in the sunbaked desert environment that increasingly serves as fertile ground for extreme metal in Arizona.
Moribund Mysticism is a black metal project from Bern, Switzerland, self-described as creating "black metal of the digital age." Their releases "Crop Circle Black Metal" and "Dead Thought" channel atmospheric darkness and existential isolation into a contemporary take on the genre that trades traditional tropes for introspective, digitally-informed textures.
Moribund Oblivion is a black metal band from Böblingen, Germany, formed in 2002. With over two decades of activity, they remain a persistent force in the German black metal underground.
Moribund Scum is a thrash metal band from Braunschweig, Germany, formed in 2013, blending d-beat, crust punk, and stenchcore into their thrash metal assault. Their catalog spans from 2013's Redneck Execution Demotape through 2025's First Cold Days In Hell, addressing themes of antifascism and social critique.
Moribundo is a doom and death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2020. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in misery and oppressive heaviness.
Chattanooga black metal act Moribundus Christus have trafficked in raw, uncompromising blasphemy since 2017, bringing an earnest and stripped-back orthodoxy to the genre from a Southern city with a small but committed underground scene.
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