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A one-man industrial deathgrind project, MySilentGod released Mundo Herege in 2019 — an 18-track assault of mechanized brutality with anti-religious Portuguese-language lyrics spanning tracks like Jesus Ateu and Demônio. The project fuses the abrasive density of grindcore with industrial texture, occupying a confrontational niche in the broader extreme metal underground.
A death metal band out of Gainesville, Florida — home to one of the country's most storied underground metal communities — Mysophilia have been trading in grisly, filth-obsessed brutality since 2012, with a sound rooted firmly in the gory end of the American death metal spectrum.
Mysore is a melodic death and groove metal band from the Salo-Turku area of Finland, formed in 2018. They fuse melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic drive.
Ripping Melodic Black / Death Metal from Houston.
Mysteria Mortis is a pagan/folk metal (early); melodic death metal/metalcore (later) band from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia, formed in 2014. They deliver powerful melodic death metal with harmonic sweep and emotive songwriting.
A black metal act from the Peloponnesian port city of Patras, Bohemian Grove emerged in 2014 with a name referencing the secretive elite gathering. The band channels conspiracy-tinged themes into atmospheric black metal.
Mysterious Eclipse is a death/black metal band from Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia, formed in 1998. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Mysterium is a melodic death, gothic, and doom metal band from Friedrichsthal, Germany, formed in 2000, fascinated by myths, mysteries, and the unexplainable. Their releases Soulwards and The Glowering Facades Of Night shift between dreamy and aggressive extremes, blending bleak atmospheres with dramatic intensity.
Mystery of Death is a death metal act from the Ivanovo region, formed in 2023. The band channels mortality's enigma into aggressive, questioning death metal.
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