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My First Knife is a death metal and grindcore act from Budapest, one of the longer-running extreme acts in the Hungarian underground since 2005. The band delivers visceral, grinding extremity with the darkly humorous edge suggested by their name.
My Funeral is a death/thrash metal act from Jyväskylä in central Finland, delivering aggressive extremity since 2010. The band pairs relentless thrash tempos with death metal brutality in a style indebted to the late 1980s thrash-death crossover.
A three-piece funeral doom outfit recorded at GoreZone Studios in Belém, My Funeral Dream released the EP A Beleza De Um Funeral and the album Introspectivo in early 2017, both sung in Portuguese. Their sound leans heavily on suffocating tempos and cavernous vocals, placing them firmly in the tradition of European funeral doom while maintaining a distinctly raw, underground Brazilian aesthetic.
A blackened death metal act from London, My God emerged in 2020 with a sound that merges the atmospheric intensity of black metal with death metal's crushing weight. The band operates within the capital's diverse extreme metal underground.
My Hidden Sin is a melodic death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2013. They craft emotive melodic death metal from the French capital.
My Indifference to Silence is a doom/death metal band from Podolsk, Russia, formed in 2012. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
A melodic death/gothic metal act from the Donetsk Oblast city of Kramatorsk, My Last Hope has been crafting emotionally charged compositions since 2020. The band channels the region's turbulent reality into poignant, melodic metal.
Active in Banja Luka since March 2009, My Last Suicide play melodic death metal with a strong melodic sensibility, recording their debut album Mission F.U.B.A.R. at Studio Cirith Ungol in roughly ten days. The five-piece has maintained a consistent presence in the Bosnian metal scene, appearing on the Bosnian Metal Compilation Vol. 2 and performing at regional festivals.
Albuquerque, New Mexico's My Makeshift Grave have developed a melodic death metal sound since 2019 that balances Scandinavian-influenced melody with a desert Southwest directness, landing somewhere between grime and grace.
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