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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Mortal Man are a heavy and doom metal band from Wilmington, North Carolina, delivering slow-burning riffs with a classic heaviness that owes as much to traditional metal as it does to the crawling tempos of doom.
Mortal Maze channels speed and thrash metal from the Castilian city of Segovia, delivering the kind of razor-sharp riffing and relentless tempo that defined the 1980s thrash explosion. Formed in 2018, the band builds on the legacy of both Bay Area and Teutonic thrash.
Mortal Nihilism is a Florida-based black metal act formed in 2021, channeling a cold and misanthropic worldview through raw, unadorned black metal aggression.
Mortal Peril is a thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2012, with four releases spanning from Of Black Days and Cruel Alliances to 2020's Digital Idol. Their sound fuses classic thrash and heavy metal with socially conscious lyrics addressing war and human conflict.
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 Remains from the Tri-Cities region of Washington State operate in the brutal death metal vein, bringing dense, punishing riffs and guttural extremity to the Pacific Northwest underground.
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