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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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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.
MH OV is an atmospheric black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. They craft expansive atmospheric black metal from the Greek capital.
Mharasiidr is a raw black metal project from Mikhaylovsk in the Stavropol region, formed in 2022. The project delivers primitive, lo-fi black metal from southern Russia.
A symphonic black/death metal act from Bari in Puglia, Mharbh has been layering orchestral grandeur over extreme metal aggression since 2018. The band channels the dramatic architecture of southern Italy into expansive, cinematic compositions.
Mhorn is a blackened death metal project from an undisclosed French location, active since 2020. The project blends the atmospheric intensity of black metal with death metal's crushing rhythmic foundation.
Miasmania is a German black metal project formed in 2022, operating from an undisclosed location. The project delivers pestilent black metal atmosphere.
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