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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Madness (2017)
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Southern California black metal project Morietur emerged in 2020 with a grimly atmospheric sound that leans into the isolation and misanthropy central to the genre, carrying the region's strong underground black metal tradition into the current decade.
Atlanta's Morionor have been a patient presence in the melodic black metal underground since 2005, building a catalog that rewards listeners willing to seek out Georgia's underexplored extreme metal history.
Oakland's Morir merge black metal's corrosive atmosphere with the grinding physicality of sludge metal and hardcore punk, formed in 2018 and operating in the Bay Area's restlessly genre-crossing underground heavy music community.
Scranton, Pennsylvania's Morkander have been fusing black and doom metal since 2014, generating slow-building, oppressive heaviness from the industrial decay of a northeastern city that lends itself naturally to bleak, heavy music.
Toledo, Ohio's Morkast play progressive death metal with a sharp focus on structure and technical craft since 2019, part of a broader wave of Midwest bands injecting cerebral ambition into the extremity of death metal.
Minneapolis atmospheric and melodic black metal act Morke have charted an evolution since 2016 — beginning in expansive, amorphous atmospherics and gradually sharpening into a more melodically driven sound rooted in the frozen Scandinavian template.
Frenchburg, Kentucky's Morkkriger bring raw black metal to Appalachian isolation since 2016, crafting bleak and primitive music from a rural corner of the American South where black metal's spirit of solitude finds a natural home.
California black metal project MorkSkogen have been conjuring dark, forest-dwelling atmosphere since 2017, channeling the Norwegian woodland mystique of the genre's origins through a distinctly American underground black metal lens.
Lafayette, Indiana's Mormont traffic in stoner and sludge metal since 2018, layering fuzz-heavy riffs and narcotic groove into a sound that suits long midwestern highways and the slow, deliberate weight the genre demands.
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