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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A avant-garde black metal act from Mińsk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Misanthropic Rage has been pushing black metal's boundaries since 2016. The band channels misanthropic fury into experimental, genre-defying compositions.
An avant-garde and progressive death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, rooted in the earlier project ITSI, where guitarist and chief composer Tony and harsh vocalist Milko originally collaborated. Their album 'Where Do You Come From' showcases their approach of layering extreme drumming and technical guitars against melodic female vocals and harsh male vocals over atmospheric electronic textures, with themes centered on introspection, fear, and enlightenment.
Molekh is an avant-garde black metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2018. They push black metal into experimental, boundary-crossing territory.
Mon'strum is an avant-garde death metal act from the tiny Groningen village of Eenrum, formed in 2025. The band pushes death metal into experimental territory from the rural Dutch north.
Mondstille are a melodic black metal band from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2004 and notable for their prominent use of violin and cello alongside standard metal instrumentation. The band released two albums — 'Am Ende...' (2008) and 'Seelenwund' (2012) — with reviewers highlighting their integration of classical string arrangements as a genuinely distinctive feature rather than a cosmetic addition. Their themes revolve around nature, melancholy, and inner landscapes.
Monte Penumbra is a doom/avant-garde black metal band from Portugal, formed in 2013. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
Mourning Mist is a avant-garde black metal (early); doom metal (later) band from Perugia, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
Breeding the Shadows is a black, gothic, and doom metal act from Athens, formed in 2020. The band merges the dark romanticism of gothic metal with the aggression of black metal and the crushing weight of doom.
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