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Mytnorr is a death metal band from Stralsund, Germany, formed in 2014. They forge brutal death metal from the Baltic coast of northeastern Germany.
Márk Meszlényi is a technical and brutal death metal artist from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2021. He crafts technically demanding death metal with surgical precision.
Mädätys is a doom and death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2022. Their Finnish name meaning "rot" or "decay" captures the putrid heaviness of their doom-death compositions.
San Francisco death metal act Mæntra have pursued a blunt and undecorated approach to the genre since forming in 2019, operating out of the Bay Area's long-established extreme metal underground. The project strips away melodic ornamentation in favor of direct, grinding heaviness.
Médian is a melodic black and death metal band from Troyes, France, formed in 2020. They blend melodic black metal with death metal from the Champagne region.
Mórbida Exhumación is a death metal band from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego — one of the southernmost active metal acts in the world. The band released the EP Liberando el Dolor in 2020, followed by the full-length Alteracion Morbosa de la Personalidad in October 2021, a ten-track record with lyrics drawing on horror and gore themes.
Richmond, Virginia's Mörder are a black metal act rooted in the city's historically active underground scene, active since 2018. Operating under a German-language name meaning murderer, the band channels aggression and darkness through black metal's archetypal sonic vocabulary.
Mörser is a grindcore, powerviolence, death metal, and hardcore act from Bremen, one of Germany's most respected extreme music institutions since 1997. The band delivers punishing, genre-blurring extremity with nearly three decades of relentless activity.
A raw black metal cult drawing directly from the second wave Scandinavian tradition, Mørkalv features members with roots in other extreme underground acts including Necroholocaust and Blood Sorcery. Their 2023 debut album "An Ancient Cult to the Aesir" delivers eight tracks built on Nordic themes, cold-blooded riffs, and an organic, deliberately rudimentary production that suits the band's uncompromising aesthetic.
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