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Memories of Ashes is a depressive black metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2022. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Memories Remnant is a doom/black metal/ambient band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
Memory of Rose is a raw depressive black metal band from Cornwall, England, formed in 2023. They channel bleak, lo-fi DSBM from the far southwest of England.
From Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mendacium have been forging blackened death metal since 2017 in one of the American Southwest's more isolated metal scenes, and that geographic remove is audible in the music — a rawness and arid hostility that mirrors the high desert terrain. Their death/black hybrid leans into the darkness native to both genres, blending the blasting intensity of death metal with black metal's corrosive, atmospheric venom. Few cities produce extreme metal quite like Albuquerque does, and Mendacium stand as one of the scene's sharper exports.
Mendigo is a black metal and ambient project from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2014. They fuse raw black metal darkness with ambient soundscapes and atmospheric depth.
Meneapneontes is a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They channel dark black metal from the cradle of Western civilization.
Menegroth is a melodic thrash and black metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2016, taking their Tolkien-derived name from the Thousand Caves of Thingol's realm. Their sound weaves melodic sensibility through a foundation of thrash and black metal aggression, blending sharp riffwork with atmospheric passages.
Menetekel is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2025. Named after the biblical "writing on the wall" prophecy of doom, their sound channels ominous, atmospheric black metal.
Menschenbrecher is a black/death metal band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2016. Their name, meaning "human breaker" in German, signals the visceral intensity of their approach to extreme metal, documented across their demo and the release "Wahn."
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