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Mental Distortion is a death/doom metal band from Flensburg, Germany, active since 2018. Their sound combines death metal's aggression with doom's crushing weight, emerging from Germany's northernmost major city near the Danish border.
Mental Distortion is a Buenos Aires death metal band that began performing as No Class at the iconic Cemento venue before adopting their current name. They released their debut album "Mentally Distorted" in 1997 on Sopa Fria Discos, and later added the EPs "Death Is Your Fate" and "Faces of Death" to their catalog.
Philadelphia's Mental Funeral carry one of the most storied names in the death/doom subgenre, and the band — newly active as of 2025 — approaches the weight of that legacy with appropriately glacial heaviness. Their death/doom metal fuses the crushing desolation of funeral doom's tempos with death metal's most sepulchral vocal textures and chord structures, building an atmosphere of profound, suffocating grief. Philadelphia has a long history of dark and extreme music, and Mental Funeral plant their flag in the genre's most lugubrious, mournful corner.
Mental Illness is a progressive/death metal act from Norway, active since 2015. The band channels psychological turmoil into technically ambitious, emotionally intense compositions.
Mental Killing Spree is a death metal band from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, whose 2013 album "Centrifuge of Man" delivers ten tracks of old-school brutal death metal with socially conscious, philosophically-charged lyrics. Their artwork by Björn Gooßes of Killustrations places them alongside acts like Aborted and Facebreaker in the death metal visual canon.
Mental Torment is a death/funeral doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2013. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Mentally Ill is a melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Frankfurt, Germany, active since 2015. Their sound bridges the aggression of Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with thrash and metalcore elements from one of Germany's largest cities.
Menticide is a thrash/death metal act from Tampere, formed in 2025 and representing the latest generation of Finland's thrash metal resurgence. The band combines the speed and precision of thrash with the brutality of death metal.
Mentrugara is a death metal act from Silesia, active since 2018. The band delivers aggressive extremity from Poland's most densely populated and industrially concentrated region.
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