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My Cold Embrace is a melodic and progressive death metal band from Kassel, Germany, active since 1998, mixing fast melodic death metal with brutal thrash, crust, and hardcore attitude. Their extensive catalog spans from 2008's Hausgeist through 2025's Yōkai, evolving across nearly three decades of underground persistence.
My Dark Passenger is a melodic black and death metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2019. They fuse melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's visceral power.
A melodic death metal act from the northern Russian city of Vologda, My Darkest Fury has been delivering harmonized aggression since 2010. The band channels the dark fury of their name into Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
A symphonic/melodic death metal and metalcore act from the Slavonian city of Osijek, BlackDivision has been delivering orchestral-tinged extremity since 2014. The band channels eastern Croatia's spirit into grandiose, multi-layered compositions.
My Deathability is a melodic blackened death metal band from Novosibirsk, Russia, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
My Dementia is a doom/death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2015. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
My Dominion is a death metal band from Essen in Germany's Ruhr Area, active since at least 2008. Their discography spans from the 'Ruhr Area Metal' demo through the full-length 'Consumed' (2014) to the 2025 album 'Extinction,' with a steady output of singles and a live bootleg along the way.
My Dying Bride is a legendary doom and gothic metal band from Bradford, England, pioneers of the UK's death-doom and gothic doom scene. Their emotionally devastating sound blending doom's crushing weight with gothic beauty has made them one of the most influential bands in extreme metal.
My Elegy is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Bruchsal, Germany, formed in 2025. They combine melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies with metalcore's structural intensity.
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