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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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Hailing from Auburn, New York, Murder in Rue Morgue have been delivering metalcore since 2016, drawing on the genre's twin pillars of crushing breakdowns and melodic hooks. The Poe-referencing name hints at a theatrical sensibility lurking beneath the aggression.
A black metal project from the Pomeranian port city of Elbląg, Murder in the Halls of Heaven formed in 2025. The project channels sacrilegious violence into atmospheric black metal.
Minneapolis death metal act Murder in the House of God traffic in blasphemous brutality, taking the anti-religious aggression embedded in classic death metal and giving it a suitably grim Midwestern weight. Formed in 2015, they're a fixture of Minnesota's underground extreme scene.
Murder Inc. was a thrash metal band from Beroun, Czech Republic, active from 2014 to 2022 with six releases of Czech-language thrash incorporating black and death metal elements. Their final album "Sám Sobě Soudcem" (2022) closed out a prolific run before the band disbanded with the parting message: "We're dead, start your own band!!"
Murder Inn is a thrash/black/death metal band from Norrköping, Sweden, formed in 2017. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Lexington, North Carolina's Murder Maiden work within gothic metal's moodier traditions, weaving atmosphere and darkness into brooding, heavy compositions since 2019. Their approach favors emotional weight and shadowy aesthetics over pure aggression.
York, Pennsylvania death metal act Murder Method have been delivering straight-ahead brutality since 2019, with no-frills aggression rooted in the classic death metal tradition. Pennsylvania's industrial landscape seems to inform the blunt-force approach.
Butte Valley, California death metal act Murder of Crows emerged in 2019 with a rural isolation that bleeds into their sound — remote, uncompromising, and stripped of any metropolitan polish. Their approach stays rooted in death metal fundamentals without chasing trends.
Madison, Wisconsin's Murder of Crows (not to be confused with their California namesake) meld doom metal's oppressive weight with stoner fuzz and crust punk's rawness, arriving at something low, slow, and corroded. Active since 2019, they're part of Madison's fertile heavy underground.
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