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Middenheim is a melodic black metal band from London and Peterborough, England, formed in 2020. Named after the Warhammer Fantasy city, they blend melodic black metal with fantasy themes.
Midgaard is a depressive black metal and dark ambient project from Benevento in Campania, active since 2021. The project channels the despair and isolation of its name's Norse mythology into bleak, atmospheric compositions.
El Sobrante, California's Midian formed in 2015 at the confluence of black metal and ambient music, building soundscapes that use darkness as texture rather than just assault. The Bay Area project moves between corrosive black metal aggression and spacious, ominous atmosphere, creating music that rewards patient listening as much as it punishes the faint-hearted.
Immersive Atmospheric Black / Folk Metal from Keller.
A black metal act from Oslo, Midnattsvrede — meaning 'midnight fury' — has been crafting dark compositions since 2014. The project channels nocturnal rage into cold, aggressive Norwegian black metal.
A one-person old-school death/black metal project helmed by Terror Holocausto, who handles all instruments and vocals drawing from 90s North American and Brazilian extremity. The debut EP "Before Coffins, Hells and Nightmares" (2021), released through Cianeto Discos, was recorded at Terror Holocausto's own home studio in Bahia and captures a raw, cavernous sound rooted firmly in the early death/black tradition.
Midnight Rites is a melodic/blackened death metal band from Linköping, Sweden, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Midnight Scream is a black, death, and gothic metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. They blend multiple dark metal styles into dramatic compositions.
A black metal project from Lviv, Midnight Silence has been crafting nocturnal compositions since 2021. The project channels the quiet darkness of the western Ukrainian night into cold, contemplative black metal.
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