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Mortid is a gothic metal/rock band from Kaluga, Russia, formed in 2015. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal layered with emotional depth.
Mortido is a raw black metal project from Yekaterinburg, active since 2015. Named after Freud's death drive concept, the project channels psychological self-destruction into primitive, lo-fi black metal.
Mortier is a doom and sludge metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2020. Their French name meaning "mortar" captures the crushing, grinding weight of their doom-sludge.
Active since 1999 and anchored in Minas Gerais, Mortifer Rage — built around the core of vocalist/bassist Carlos Pira, guitarists Robert Aender and R. Amon, and drummer Angelo Petterson — play punishing brutal death metal with a career spanning EPs like Field of Flagellation and full-lengths including Fall of Gods (2017). Their 2024 album Plagues Requiem, recorded at Maçonaria do Áudio in Nova Lima and released through Demoncratic Records, confronts themes of human manipulation and historical atrocity with the band's characteristic density and aggression.
Mortifera is a black metal project from the small town of Rust in Baden-Württemberg, crafting atmospheric and misanthropic soundscapes since 2014. The project favors a solitary creative vision and raw, unpolished recording aesthetic.
Mortiferia is a symphonic folk metal band from Skien, Norway, formed in 2017. They weave folk traditions into heavy metal compositions.
Mortiferian is a death metal band from Medellín, Colombia, active since 2008. The band released their debut demo self-titled in 2008 and their first full-length, Casus Morte, in 2013, followed by a return to activity in 2023 with new singles and the 2025 EP Litaniae Funeris Abyssi. Their music explores themes of death, anti-religion, and occultism.
Mortiferik is a one-man funeral doom project built around the bleakest end of the death/doom spectrum, drawing on the suffocating pace and crushing despair of the genre's key forebears. The project released the "Empire of Sadness Returns" EP and appeared on the "Doomed Serenades" Brazilian doom compilation, marking it as a committed voice in the country's underground doom scene.
Morthifera is a thrash metal band formed in 2010 in González Catán, Greater Buenos Aires, by drummer Cristian Romero along with guitarist Sergio Noriega. The band built their name on socially charged, working-class-rooted thrash, releasing the EP Régimen de Sangre in 2011, the full-length Basurero Humano through Icarus Music in 2016, and the independently released Apócrifo in 2019.
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