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Mute Ocean is a atmospheric black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2014. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
St. Louis, Missouri's Mute Prophet have been pursuing orchestral symphonic metal with a rock-informed edge since 2011, blending sweeping cinematic arrangements with heavy guitar work in a city not typically associated with the subgenre. Their approach brings Gothic grandeur to the Midwest's overlooked metal underground.
Pearsall, Texas's Mute TX formed in 2022 playing groove and heavy metal from a small ranching town in South Texas, channeling working-class grit into a sound built on down-tuned riffs and hard-driving rhythms. Their presence demonstrates that Texas metal has roots in places far beyond the major metro areas.
Muted is a London-based thrash metal act active since 2009, delivering precise, riff-driven aggression from the capital. The ironic name belies the volume and intensity of their thrash assault.
Muteny is a blackened thrash metal act from Sundsvall in northern Sweden, formed in 2024. The band channels mutinous rebellion into aggressive, genre-crossing extremity.
Mutiara Damansara is a post-black metal and shoegaze band from Rennes, France, formed in 2022. They blend wall-of-sound post-black metal with shimmering shoegaze textures.
Santa Ana, California's Mutilacion have been delivering Spanish-named death metal brutality since 2012, their work reflecting the large and historically deep Latino metal community in the greater Los Angeles basin. They play the genre straight — no frills, relentless, and rooted in Orange County's underground.
San Jose, California's Mutilador have been active since 2012, operating out of the South Bay with a death metal sound that pulls from the genre's most uncompromising traditions. Their label arm, Mutilador Records, suggests a deep involvement in organizing and releasing music across the Bay Area's extreme metal community.
Mutilagia is a five-piece slamming brutal death metal band from southern Argentina whose lineup includes Marcos Corbalan on vocals, Sergio Romero and Ignacio Sanabria on guitars, Nicolás Guaquin on bass, and Angel Levin on drums. Their debut album "Non-Human Atrocities" was recorded at Ataraxia Studio in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego and released in September 2022, with a follow-up single featuring guest vocalist Matthias Joyce (Rottenness) arriving in 2026.
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