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Cleveland's Mystic Underworld formed in 2020 and blend black metal with ambient elements, pairing harsh, atmospheric black metal passages with spacious, drone-informed interludes that give their sound a meditative, underworld-descending quality.
Mystical Forces is a black metal and ambient project from the UK, formed in 2022. They blend black metal darkness with ambient atmospheres.
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.
Operating out of Battle Ground, Washington since 2006, Mysticism Black have spent nearly two decades cultivating a dense, Pacific Northwest strain of black metal — cold, fog-heavy, and rooted in the isolated forests and overcast skies of the region.
Mysticisme is a black metal project from Strasbourg in Alsace, active since 2014. The project channels the mystical traditions of the Rhine borderland into contemplative, atmospheric black metal.
Mystification is a black and death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2024. They channel dark extremity through the convergence of black and death metal.
Mystification is a brutal death/black metal band from León, Guanajuato, Mexico, formed in 2023. The band has released a series of singles beginning with Declassified Truth in 2024, followed by Ancient Gods and The Great Attractor in 2025. Their lyrical themes center on extraterrestrial intelligence, UFO declassification, and unexplained phenomena.
Formed in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1989, Mystifier are one of the foundational acts of the Brazilian black metal underground. Their debut full-length Wicca (1992) and its follow-up Göetia (1993) established a ferocious and malignant sound steeped in occultism and anti-Christian themes, earning them widespread recognition in the international underground. After an eighteen-year gap between studio albums, Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia (2019) on Season of Mist marked a powerful return.
A New York black metal project active since 2020, Mystiker work within the raw, underground black metal tradition — bleak, stripped of pretension, and committed to the grimly ascetic aesthetic that defines the more orthodox end of the American scene.
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