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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)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Hood River, Oregon's Mortal Plague began with melodic death metal roots before evolving into symphonic black/death territory, weaving orchestral grandeur into their dense, multi-layered extremity.
Mortal Pleasures is a death metal act from Istanbul, formed in 2022. The band channels the paradox of deadly pleasure into aggressive, dark compositions from Turkey's cultural capital.
Mortal Possession is a brutal death metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Mortal Remains are a groove and thrash metal band out of Queens, New York City, fusing the head-down punch of groove metal with thrash aggression rooted in the NYC underground.
Mortal Scepter is a blackened thrash metal band from Dunkirk, France, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's relentless aggression from the northern French coast.
Mortal Silence is a one-man metal project from Kherson, Ukraine, operated under the moniker 'Parazit.' The project's discography includes releases like 'Dark Dungeon + Ep Winter Night,' 'Scars,' and 'The Past Is Killing Me,' channeling dark, introspective themes through solo underground metal.
An avant-garde death metal side project from Vratsa, Bulgaria, conceived by guitarist Georgi Velev and featuring members with backgrounds in bands including Fermented Flesh and Squad of Death. Their releases — 'Biological Weapon' EP, the album 'Beyond the Human Cell', and a live album — explore experimental approaches within the Bulgarian extreme metal underground.
Mortal Soil is a heavy metal band from Alavus, Finland, formed in 2021. They channel classic heavy metal power from the Ostrobothnian flatlands.
A Vienna-based thrash metal band with roots going back more than a decade, Mortal Strike released the album For the Loud and the Aggressive and earned a slot at Eindhoven Metal Meeting in 2017, gaining international exposure for their unapologetic, five-piece thrash assault. The band has since welcomed a new vocalist while keeping their no-compromise approach intact.
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