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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Mundus is a black metal band from the UK, formed in 2023. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal.
Municion is a black/thrash metal band from Santa Fe, Argentina who built a live reputation sharing stages with international acts including Aura Noir, Mystifier, and Tsjuder. The band released the EP "Black, Speed & Evil" in 2015 through Execracion Distro before issuing their debut full-length "Fukk Off In Hell" in 2021 via Alkolik Holocaust Records.
Richmond, Virginia's Municipal Waste are one of the defining acts of the 21st-century crossover thrash revival, fusing the manic energy of hardcore punk with razor-sharp thrash riffing and an irreverent, party-metal attitude that made them scene icons.
Grand Rapids black metal project Munin draws on Norse mythology — its name taken from one of Odin's ravens — to anchor an atmospheric, ambient-inflected sound that has grown steadily since the band's formation in 2016.
Chicago heavy/power metal act Munition formed in 2023 with an approach rooted in old-school metal tradition — anthem-ready riffs, soaring vocals, and the kind of chest-out directness that the genre's classic era was built on.
Munkill is an extreme metal band from San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, whose founding members include vocalist/guitarist Demogorgon Malignum, bassist Malice Misanthropic, and drummer Sebastian Ortega. Their debut album "Suicide Or Homicide" was recorded at Insight Producciones and released in September 2012, followed by "Ambition and Destruction" in 2020, recorded in quarantine and mixed by Agustin Ortega at Demogorgon Malignum Producciones.
Munruthel is a symphonic black/folk metal, ambient band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 1997. They layer orchestral grandeur over fierce black metal foundations.
Hesperia, California death metal project Munsterman launched in 2025, emerging from the high desert with a straightforward brutality that strips the genre back to its ugliest, most unadorned foundations.
Black Speed Knight is a black/speed metal act with Croatian origins who later relocated to Moscow. Active since 2020, the project fuses the raw velocity of speed metal with black metal's tremolo-driven ferocity.
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