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A progressive metal act from the northwestern Greek city of Ioannina, Brain Scorcher has been crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2015. The band channels the dramatic landscape of Epirus into complex, layered metal.
Mystic Charm is a death/doom metal band from Zwolle, the Netherlands, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mystical Death is a technical/progressive death metal act from Amsterdam, formed in 2024. The band pushes death metal into complex, ambitious territory from the Dutch capital.
MysticalGate is a progressive/doom metal (early); progressive/death metal (later) band from Voronezh, Russia, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mystification is a black and death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2024. They channel dark extremity through the convergence of black and death metal.
Formed in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1989, Mystifier are one of the foundational acts of the Brazilian black metal underground. Their debut full-length Wicca (1992) and its follow-up Göetia (1993) established a ferocious and malignant sound steeped in occultism and anti-Christian themes, earning them widespread recognition in the international underground. After an eighteen-year gap between studio albums, Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia (2019) on Season of Mist marked a powerful return.
Formed in Salvador, Bahia in 1989 by Beelzeebubth, Lucifuge Rofocale, Behemoth, and Meugninousouan, Mystifier are one of the foundational names in the Brazilian extreme underground, blending primitive black metal brutality with a dark, ceremonial atmosphere and restrained synth use. Their run of records — Wicca (1992), Göetia (1993), The World Is So Good That Who Made It Does Not Live Here (1996), and Profanus (2001) — established them as the most significant black metal band from the northeast of the country.
Cleveland, Ohio's Mystik formed in 2018 and blend power and thrash metal into a high-energy combination — the melodic ambition and vocal hooks of power metal fused with the speed and aggression of thrash, giving their music a driving, hook-laden intensity.
A melodic death metal act from Sheffield, Myth of a Life has been blending Scandinavian-style harmonies with British metal grit since 2014. The band channels the Steel City's industrial legacy into emotionally charged melodic death metal.
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