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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Murskaaja is a progressive thrash metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2017. Their Finnish name meaning "crusher" matches their blend of progressive ambition with thrash metal's crushing force.
Murtanera is a death metal and metalcore band from Ahaus, Germany, formed in 2014. They blend the intensity of death metal with metalcore's structural aggression and breakdown-driven dynamics.
Murtuma is an industrial black and doom metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2024. They merge industrial coldness with black and doom metal's oppressive darkness.
Murustrictus is a black metal act from Aberdeen, active since 2012 and crafting cold, aggressive compositions from the Scottish northeast. The Latin-inflected name signals an academic edge to their misanthropic black metal.
A Slovak black metal project, Muruth has been crafting dark compositions since 2016. The project delivers atmospheric black metal.
Murw is a atmospheric black metal band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 2009. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Wilmington, Delaware's Murzer X arrived in 2019 with a groove metal approach built on thick, syncopated riffs and a hard-hitting rhythmic foundation. Their sound sits in the tradition of mid-90s groove metal, updated for a contemporary audience in the small-but-active Delaware metal scene.
Muscaria is a heavy and thrash metal band from Oviedo, Spain, formed in 2013. They combine heavy metal's foundations with thrash metal's aggressive intensity from the Asturias region.
Musha is a psychedelic doom and stoner metal project from Cyprus, formed in 2020. Their sound explores the heavier, more lysergic end of the doom spectrum, layering thick fuzz and hypnotic repetition into a trance-inducing sonic weight.
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