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Mercyless Death is a thrash/death metal band from Sassari, Italy, formed in 2006. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Merdam Boten is a black/death metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2016. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Portland's Merde have been delivering no-frills death metal since 2018, operating within a scene more often associated with crust and punk but carving out space for the genre's most direct and punishing instincts. Their name — French for filth — sets the tone: this is death metal stripped of pretense, leaning into ugliness as an aesthetic principle rather than an accident.
Merdok is a death/thrash metal band from Perm, Russia, formed in 2022. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Merged in Abyss is a black/death metal band from Prešov, Slovakia, formed in 2018. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Merger Remnant is a atmospheric black/death metal band from Falun, Sweden, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Wisconsin's Merging with Machines have been pursuing a cold, mechanized vision of death metal since 2014, grafting industrial metal's processed textures and programmatic logic onto the genre's foundation of brutality. The result is music that feels inhuman in a deliberate way — the organic violence of death metal filtered through machinery, producing something both familiar and deeply unsettling.
Meridion is a four-piece death metal band from Santiago, Chile, founded in 2017, whose music blends dark and technical death metal with themes drawn from Andean aboriginal culture, occultism, and colonial history. The band released their debut full-length Rise from the South in 2018 and followed it with the eight-track Caverns (2024) through Mexican underground label Iron, Blood and Death Corporation.
Meridion is a four-piece death metal band from Santiago, Chile, founded in 2017, whose music blends dark and technical death metal with themes drawn from Andean aboriginal culture, occultism, and colonial history. The band released their debut full-length Rise from the South in 2018 and followed it with the eight-track Caverns (2024) through Mexican underground label Iron, Blood and Death Corporation.
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