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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Little Rock, Arkansas heavy and thrash metal act Mortalus formed in 2018, bringing classic metal grit to a Southern scene not always associated with the genre's harder-edged traditions.
River City, Florida's Mortar play heavy metal with a punk-informed edge, a 2024 act whose raw, no-nonsense approach connects the aggression of punk with the riff-driven simplicity of traditional heavy metal.
Crystal Lake, Illinois thrash metal band Mortar deal in straight-faced, aggressive thrash rooted in the Midwest's workmanlike underground scene.
Schererville, Indiana's Morthona have been mixing death and thrash metal since 2016, rooted in the classic crossover between the two genres that defined much of the late-1980s underground.
Detroit's Mortification, formed in 2003, fuse death and thrash metal in the gritty tradition of the Motor City's blue-collar heavy music scene, combining thrash's velocity and riff aggression with death metal's punishing vocal and rhythmic brutality.
Minneapolis thrashers Mortificator have been ripping through the Twin Cities underground since 2014, carrying the torch of old-school thrash metal with tight, aggressive riffing and a no-nonsense approach to speed and heaviness.
Razor-sharp Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Cameron Park, California's Mortuary bring classic thrash metal intensity to the Northern California foothills since 2021, channeling old-school speed, riff precision, and a no-frills attitude toward headbanging extremity.
Turnersville, New Jersey's Mortuary operate at the intersection of speed and thrash metal, pushing the genre's most velocity-obsessed tendencies with tightly wound riffing and an old-school urgency rooted in the Garden State underground since 2021.
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