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Mortticia is one of the leading NWOTHM acts to emerge from the south, blending classic 1980s heavy metal architecture with progressive and power metal sensibilities, drawing comparisons to Queensrÿche and Angra. The band released their debut EP "A Light in the Black" in 2020 — later issued on CD by Pest Records — and made a notable live statement when they opened for Angra in Porto Alegre in 2022.
MortU is a melodic black/death metal band from Slovenia, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Jacksonville, Arkansas duo Mortua Sordes deal in blackened doom metal since their 2023 formation, pairing the bleak, dragging weight of doom with the corrosive venom of black metal — a particularly desolate sound for a relatively young Southern act.
Mortuaire is a French black metal project formed in 2020, with a name meaning 'mortuary.' The project delivers funereal black metal.
Mortualia is a depressive black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2011. They craft deeply bleak, emotionally devastating depressive black metal compositions.
Mortualium is a melodic black metal band from Albufeira, Portugal, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Baltimore's Mortuaria, formed in 2025, fuse death metal's crushing density with grindcore's explosive brevity, emerging from Maryland's storied extreme metal underground with a debut that wastes no time on subtlety.
Mortuario is a thrash metal band from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, active since 2004 under the Under Records label. The band built its catalog through a series of demos in the 2000s and early 2010s before releasing their debut full-length, Devastación, in 2025. Their sound draws on old-school thrash traditions with lyrical themes of death, destruction, and metal itself.
A black metal act from Kassel in Hesse, Mortuarium has been crafting dark compositions since 2016. The band channels the funerary imagery of their name into cold, atmospheric black metal.
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