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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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A black metal act from Oslo, Mortiferuz has been delivering dark compositions since 2017. The band contributes to the Norwegian capital's ever-expanding black metal scene.
Connecticut's Mortifica, active since 2012 out of Meriden, wield technical death metal with precision and brutality, weaving intricate fretwork and volatile time signatures through relentless death metal heaviness.
Formed in 2012 in Oxnard, California, Mortificado operate at the crossroads of black and death metal, fusing the venomous spite of black metal aesthetics with death metal's pulverizing low-end attack.
Out of Normal, Illinois, Mortificare have been delivering straightforward, uncompromising death metal since 2012 — a Midwest act rooted in the tradition of gut-punch riffing and guttural vocals without genre embellishment.
A raw black metal project active since 2003, Mortification traffic in the most primitive and caustic strain of the genre, stripping production to bare wire and leaning hard into the lo-fi, venomous spirit of underground black metal.
Minneapolis thrashers Mortificator have been ripping through the Twin Cities underground since 2014, carrying the torch of old-school thrash metal with tight, aggressive riffing and a no-nonsense approach to speed and heaviness.
Mortificy is a brutal death metal band from the Amazon region with a discography spanning two decades, including the albums "Brutal Instinct of Retalliation" (2003), "Unholy Triumph" (2006), and "Burn and Suffer" (2012). Their sound is dense and relentless, rooted in the aggressive traditions of Amazonian extreme metal with anti-religious lyrical themes.
Relentless Black Metal from San Antonio.
Based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and active since 2022, this incarnation of Mortified pursues straight-ahead death metal rooted in the Southern California tradition of punishing extremity and underground dedication.
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