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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Morphist is a heavy metal band from St. Gallen, Switzerland, active since 2011. Their sound draws from traditional heavy metal foundations with a straightforward, riff-driven approach rooted in the classic European metal tradition.
Morphogenetic Malformation is a brutal death metal band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2014. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Morpholith is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2018. They channel crushing heaviness from the volcanic island.
Oregon symphonic black and gothic metal project Morphos Malediction, formed in 2022, weaves orchestral grandeur and gothic atmosphere into a black metal foundation. The result is cinematic and darkly ornate, drawing equally from European symphonic traditions and American underground extremity.
A heavy metal act from Radom, Morr has roots reaching back to 1991, making them one of central Poland's longest-running metal bands. The band has delivered over three decades of traditional heavy metal.
Morrath is a thrash/death metal band from Leszno, Poland, formed in 2021. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Morri fuses blackened thrash with the abrasive energy of crust punk, drawing on the raw aggression shared between those worlds. Their 2019 EP "Não Existe Vida," recorded at LF Studio in Realengo, announced a band with no interest in polish — just velocity, hostility, and grime.
Morrigan is a thrash/death metal band from Klabava, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. Named after the Irish war goddess, their sound merges the speed and precision of thrash with death metal's crushing brutality.
Morrighon is a metal band from Paramaribo, Suriname, playing a blend of speed metal and melodic death metal with industrial and thrash influences. The five-piece group released their debut album Silence of Creatures in 2015, recorded and mastered at Rockland Studio in Paramaribo, making them one of the few metal acts to emerge from Suriname.
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