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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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A New York-based death/doom outfit active since 2014, this incarnation of Monarch traces the slow, cavernous edge where death metal's brutality bleeds into doom's suffocating weight.
Kenosha, Wisconsin's Monarch Dethroned combine the downtuned savagery of deathcore with the technical brutality of death metal, building a punishing sound since their 2016 formation.
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San Diego's Mongrel have been fusing the brutality of death metal with the confrontational directness of hardcore since 2010, playing aggressive, no-nonsense music that pulls no punches.
Portland, Oregon's Monke emerged in 2020 with a black/death hybrid sound that draws on the Pacific Northwest's prolific extreme metal underground, balancing atmospheric menace with visceral, full-throttle extremity.
Out of the Lehigh Valley in New Jersey, Monoceros have been playing progressive heavy metal and hard rock since 2004, bringing a melodic, technically ambitious approach to song craft over two decades of activity.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Monochromatic Residua pursue technical death metal with intricate, precision-driven arrangements, channeling the city's underground metal tradition into complex, unrelenting brutality since 2018.
Chicago's Monolith have been at the intersection of progressive and thrash metal since 1993, one of the longer-tenured acts in the city's underground, built on technical riffing and ambitious song structures.
Kingsport, Tennessee's Monolith have been playing death metal since 1993, representing the Appalachian region's quieter but persistent contribution to extreme metal's American underground.
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