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Nashville death metal act Mortius, active since 2018, represent the Tennessee capital's underground heavy music community with a direct, meat-and-bones approach to the genre that favors crushing riffs and guttural intensity.
Mortivast is a black metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2025. They channel cold, northern black metal from above the 65th parallel.
Mortivius is a progressive metal band from Barnsley, England, formed in 2021. They craft intricate progressive metal from South Yorkshire.
Mortiço is a one-man black metal project helmed by Andrew Gargula, who recorded the debut album Cumming in your Guts at Home Estúdio Mortal Ways in Rio Claro between January and May 2021. The same year Gargula released a split titled Tempos de Cavalaria alongside Far From Everything, keeping the project active in the tape and digital underground from its first months of existence.
Mortjuri is a melodic death/black metal band from Jena, Germany, formed in 2002. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A black metal act from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Mortnoir has been crafting dark compositions since 2013. The band channels the vast Siberian taiga into atmospheric black metal.
Seattle's Morto-Naught, formed in 2021, push blackened death metal into unconventional territory through experimental composition and unorthodox structures, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's tradition of avant-garde extremity to carve out genuinely strange sonic ground.
Mortom plays a hard-hitting blend of thrash and groove metal from the city that gave the world Sepultura and Sarcófago, drawing naturally from that rich legacy of heaviness. The band released their self-titled debut EP in December 2020, a five-track statement packed with driving riffs and the kind of thick, mid-paced groove that defines the Minas Gerais metal tradition.
A brutal death metal project from the southern Estonian town of Otepää, Mortophilia emerged in 2025 with a commitment to the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum. The project brings extreme metal to a region better known for its cross-country skiing than its blast beats.
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