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Methos is a black and death metal band from Le Breuil, France, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Cleveland's Methuselah bring a primal black metal vision to a city that has produced some of America's most uncompromising underground music. Formed in 2021 and operating under a name that evokes ancient, almost geological time, they traffic in the cold and misanthropic aesthetics at the core of the genre — raw production, tremolo-picked ferocity, and an atmosphere that suggests ritual rather than entertainment. They add a black metal edge to Cleveland's already dark and storied heavy music history.
Metsän Alttari is a folk and black metal band from Kerava, Finland, formed in 2024. Their Finnish name meaning "Forest Altar" captures their blend of nature-inspired folk elements with raw black metal.
Metus is an avant-garde black metal project from Porto Empedocle in Sicily, active since 2007. The project pushes beyond orthodox black metal into experimental territory, befitting the birthplace of the ancient philosopher Empedocles.
Meuh is a black metal band from Metz, France, formed in 2020. They channel dark black metal from the Lorraine region with an unconventional artistic sensibility.
A heavy and stoner metal act from the central Greek city of Larissa, Burndrops delivers fuzz-drenched grooves since 2022. The band channels the Thessalian plain's heat into thick, sun-baked riffs.
Mezexis is a Chilean black metal band that plays raw, stripped-down black metal characterized by simple riffs, basic drums, and rough reverb-drenched vocals. The band released their debut Demo I in 2022 as a self-released cassette, a two-track recording clocking in at just over seven minutes.
Mezzerschmitt is an industrial black metal act from Oslo, active since 2011. The band fuses the cold aggression of black metal with industrial textures, creating a mechanistic, hostile soundscape.
Mgła is one of Poland's most internationally acclaimed and influential black metal acts, formed in Kraków in 2000. The project, whose name means 'fog,' delivers relentlessly driving, hypnotic black metal characterized by Mikołaj Żentara's distinctive vocal style and M.'s trance-like guitar work, with albums like 'Exercises in Futility' and 'Age of Excuse' earning near-universal critical praise.
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