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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Oakland death metal band Muldrotha, named for the MTG character and formed in 2019, brings Bay Area aggression to the genre with a grim, relentless approach that channels the East Bay's long lineage of extreme underground acts.
New Orleans death metal and grindcore outfit Mule Skinner have been trading in visceral, short-fused extremity since 2014, carrying on the Crescent City's storied tradition of bands that find brutality lurking just beneath the surface.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Mule Thrower arrived in 2021 with a sludge-doom sound as stubborn and heavy as their name implies — slow, punishing, and built on the kind of oppressive riffing that demands physical submission.
Kaiserslautern's Mull is a goregrind project dedicated to the most repulsive end of extreme music, grinding out short, visceral bursts of noise since 2022. The act revels in the low-fidelity traditions of the genre, favoring blast beats and guttural vocals.
Mulmeyun is a Santiago-based extreme metal project blending symphonic, black, and gothic doom elements, with the project's first release, the two-track EP A Tale of Love, appearing in September 2018. The band uses a Vocaloid voice bank as vocalist, an unusual choice within the Chilean metal underground, and has released a steady stream of material including Struggle (2020) and An Ancient Calling (2021). Thematically, the project frames suffering and sacrifice as necessary responses to modern nihilism and existential despair.
Salt Lake City goregrind and death metal outfit Multicyst formed in 2023, channeling the most grotesque end of the grindcore spectrum with a gore-fixated intensity that stands out sharply against Utah's more conservative cultural backdrop.
A heavy metal act from the Småland city of Kalmar, Multitude formed in 2024. The band delivers classic-style metal from the Baltic coast.
Muluc is a black metal, ambient, and drone project from Jihlava, Czech Republic, active since 2012. Their sound occupies the atmospheric fringe where black metal dissolves into ambient drift and hypnotic drone, creating immersive sonic landscapes from the Moravian underground.
A death metal act from Kyiv, Mulyfication has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2022. The band channels the Ukrainian capital's underground intensity into crushing death metal.
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