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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Evidence (2023)
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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.
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania's Mortanius have been developing their progressive power metal since 2014, combining soaring melodic ambition with the technical depth and shifting structures of progressive metal.
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.
San Diego stoner metal act Mortar formed in 2024, leaning into the fuzz-heavy, groove-laden side of heavy music that the Southern California desert rock and stoner metal scene has long cultivated.
This Ohio band operate in the dirty crossover territory between sludge metal and crust punk, piling on thick, down-tuned riffs with the filthy, grinding ethos of the crust underground.
Crystal Lake, Illinois thrash metal band Mortar deal in straight-faced, aggressive thrash rooted in the Midwest's workmanlike underground scene.
Montana's Morte Hominis is a raw black metal project formed in 2021, producing harsh, primitive recordings that capitalize on the region's isolation to deliver suitably bleak and abrasive extremity.
Eugene, Oregon's Morte Sinata have been active in the black metal underground since 2011, bringing a Pacific Northwest sensibility to classic black metal forms with a consistently underground orientation.
Brooklyn-based black metal outfit Mortem Cultum formed in 2018, adding to New York City's dense extreme metal underground with a sound rooted in the orthodox, ritualistic side of the genre.
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