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Burial Stone is a funeral doom metal project from the small town of Mór in western Hungary, crafting glacially slow, devastating compositions since 2018. The project channels the crushing weight of grief into some of Hungary's most oppressive doom.
Melankoli is a atmospheric black metal/ambient band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Melding Plague is an industrial black metal band from Finland, formed in 2016. They merge industrial music's mechanical coldness with black metal's atmospheric fury.
Melencoliam formed in Uberlândia in 1999 and released the cassette demo "O Infinito Vale da Escuridão" (2001), a recording whose lyrics drew heavily from Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost as conceptual touchstones for Satanic black metal. Their full-length "Areloc, O Reino Do Demônio" followed in 2003, cementing a sound rooted in the rawer traditions of the Brazilian black metal underground.
A folk/black metal project from the Tuscan city of Pistoia, Melethor emerged in 2025 blending traditional folk elements with black metal aggression. The project channels the ancient traditions of central Italy into atmospheric, nature-inspired compositions.
Melets is a black metal project from Venice, active since 2013. The project crafts atmospheric black metal from the sinking city, channeling the aquatic decay and gothic architecture into cold, haunting compositions.
Melinoe is a black metal project from Oberhausen, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the Greek chthonic nymph of ghosts and madness, their sound channels the atmospheric darkness and spectral intensity of black metal.
Brooklyn's Melissa emerged in 2021 dragging black metal through the borough's gutter — all corroded riffs, spat-out vocals, and punk scorn welded onto a raw, lo-fi chassis. The New York City underground has long been fertile ground for this kind of corrosive collision, and Melissa leans into it without apology, favoring atmosphere built from filth rather than grandeur. Their black metal/punk hybrid feels less like genre tourism and more like a natural product of a city that has never had time for pretense.
Melkor is a black metal band from Mainz, Germany, active since 2004. Named after Tolkien's primordial dark lord, their two decades of output mark them as a committed force in the Rhineland-Palatinate black metal underground.
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