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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.
Lowell, Massachusetts act My Missing Half have worked a melodic death metal and metalcore hybrid since 2014, combining throat-shredding aggression with structured riffing and the emotionally forward songwriting common to New England's metalcore scene.
My Nothing is a thrash/death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
My Own Fear is a thrash and death metal band from Val d'Oise, France, formed in 2014. They forge aggressive extreme metal from the northern Paris suburbs.
Rock Island, Illinois death metal band My Pal Trigger have been a fixture of the Midwestern underground since 2011, their sardonically casual name belying a grinding, unrelenting death metal attack.
My Silent Wake is a gothic, death, and doom metal band from Weston-super-Mare, England, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, they craft emotionally rich gothic doom-death.
Brutal Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Dallas.
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