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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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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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Miseria is a black and death metal band from Lübbenau, Germany, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal rooted in the darkness where black and death metal collide.
Misertus is an atmospheric and post-black metal band from Macclesfield, England, formed in 2019. They craft expansive post-black metal compositions with atmospheric depth.
Washington State's Misery have been delivering raw, primitive black metal since 2003, leaning into the genre's bleak atmospheric qualities with a stark sound that prioritizes oppressive atmosphere over technical elaboration.
A black metal act from Saint Petersburg, Misery Spell has been crafting dark, cursed compositions since 2019. The band channels the enchantment of suffering into atmospheric black metal.
Mismatched is a blackened death/groove metal band from Poznań, Poland, formed in 2018. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Mismod is a black metal and punk band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2023. They fuse raw black metal hostility with punk's rebellious energy and DIY ethos.
Misonoia is a melodic black and death metal band from France, formed in 2025. They blend melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's visceral aggression.
Manville, Rhode Island's Misotheist deal in ice-cold, antagonistic black metal shaped by a deeply anti-religious worldview, operating since 2012 within New England's characteristically bleak and self-contained underground with a sound that prizes hostility and atmosphere above all else.
Toronto-based Misothronos weave together melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication, black metal's atmospheric hostility, and thrash metal's kinetic energy into a dynamic, multi-layered extreme metal sound that defies clean genre categorization since forming in 2018.
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