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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.
Razor-sharp Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Cameron Park, California's Mortuary bring classic thrash metal intensity to the Northern California foothills since 2021, channeling old-school speed, riff precision, and a no-frills attitude toward headbanging extremity.
Kingston, Pennsylvania's Mortuary have ground out death metal in the Northeast underground since 2021, carrying the working-class heaviness of the Wyoming Valley into brutally direct extreme metal.
Turnersville, New Jersey's Mortuary operate at the intersection of speed and thrash metal, pushing the genre's most velocity-obsessed tendencies with tightly wound riffing and an old-school urgency rooted in the Garden State underground since 2021.
Fort Worth's Mortuary, formed in 2021, combine death and thrash metal in the Texas tradition of unsparing heaviness, blending the Metroplex's deep-rooted metal scene with a crossover attack that hits hard from both angles.
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