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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Misanthropic Winter deals in cold, desolate black metal that mirrors the coastal isolation of its Rio Grande do Sul origins. The project's 2018 release Effigy of Frost introduced the band's bleak aesthetic, driven by Frosturnal's guitar and vocal work against a backdrop of wintry, misanthropic themes.
Misanthropium is a black/doom/gothic metal, ambient band from Serbia, formed in 2017. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
Denver's Misanthropy arrived in 2024 with a coldly hostile black metal vision rooted in harsh tremolo riffing and a deeply atmospheric sense of negation, adding to Colorado's quietly fertile black metal underground.
New York's Misanthropæ operate in the volatile space between black metal's frost-bitten fury and grindcore's demolition-speed blasting, delivering a confrontational blackened grindcore attack of crushing brevity and abrasive noise since forming in 2021.
Misanthur is a black metal project from Częstochowa, the pilgrimage city of southern Poland, active since 2016. The project channels misanthropic contempt into atmospheric black metal from an unexpectedly devotional setting.
Misantrok is a black metal band from Montilla, Spain, formed in 2011. They forge misanthropic black metal from the depths of the Córdoba province.
Misantrop is a black metal project from Prague, Czech Republic, active since 2011. Their sound channels the misanthropic fury and atmospheric darkness that defines the genre's most uncompromising wing, delivered through the lens of the Czech black metal underground.
Misantropía is a thrash/black metal band from Villa Alemana in the Valparaíso region of Chile. The band's lyrical themes center on misanthropy, anti-Christianity, mythology, and darkness, operating as an independent, unsigned act within the Chilean extreme metal underground.
Misas Negras is a black and death metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2014. They channel dark, ritualistic extreme metal from the Canary Islands.
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