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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Apocalypse (2023)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
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Mindcontrol is a death and groove metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2022. They fuse death metal's brutality with groove metal's headbanging momentum.
Crushing Death Metal from Harlingen.
Mindfall is a melodic death metal act from Oulu, channeling the icy atmosphere of northern Finland into sweeping melodic passages and aggressive rhythms. Active since 2016, the band builds on the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with a distinctly Finnish sensibility.
A groove/melodic death metal act from the southwestern Polish town of Lubin, Mindfuck has been delivering rhythmically driven aggression since 2011. The band channels the copper mining town's industrial intensity into heavy metal.
Mindful of Pripyat is a grindcore and death metal act from Milan, formed in 2015 and named after the abandoned Ukrainian city near Chernobyl. The band channels nuclear catastrophe themes into blast-driven extremity.
Mindgrinder is a death/black metal band from Akkerhaugen, Norway, formed in 2020. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A melodic death metal act from the English Midlands, Mindlapse emerged in 2020 blending Scandinavian-influenced harmonies with British heaviness. The band bridges the melodeath tradition with the raw energy of the UK metal underground.
A young St. Joseph, Missouri outfit formed in 2024 that merges the pulverizing low-end chug of groove metal with the aggressive riffing of thrash and flashes of death metal brutality, carving out a heavyweight sound rooted in the American Midwest.
Mindloss is a melodic death/gothic metal act from Friedland in Mecklenburg, active since 2019. The band blends Scandinavian-influenced melodeath with gothic atmospherics from northeastern Germany.
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