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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."
Mental Flamethrower is an ambient and black metal project from Lohja, Finland, formed in 2016. They blend ambient soundscapes with black metal's dark atmospheric foundations.
A depressive/post-black metal act from Warsaw, Mental Sorrow has been crafting mournful compositions since 2020. The project channels psychological anguish into expansive, emotionally devastating black metal.
Boston's Mentalist occupy a peculiar and rewarding niche — black metal bent through experimental sensibilities that resist easy categorization, formed in 2019 in a city better known for hardcore and prog than for the corrosive. Their music uses black metal's core vocabulary of blast beats and tremolo-picked dissonance as a launching pad for stranger structural decisions, subverting the genre's orthodoxies from within. In a city with a strong tradition of intellectual extremity, Mentalist fit right in while standing apart from most of their contemporaries.
Mentis Morbo is a black metal band from France, formed in 2015. Their Latin name meaning "disease of the mind" captures the psychologically intense nature of their black metal.
Menzoberranzan is a black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2017. Named after the dark elf city from Dungeons & Dragons, they deliver dark, subterranean black metal.
Mephir is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2016. Their sound channels the atmospheric darkness and ferocity of black metal from the northern German lowlands.
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