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Mirror is a doom, death, gothic metal, and folk band from Almendralejo, Spain, formed in 2016. They weave together diverse influences spanning doom, death, gothic, and folk metal into richly textured compositions.
Mirrorthrone is a progressive/symphonic black/death metal band from Lausanne/Montreux, Switzerland, formed in 2015. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Atlanta's Mirthless fuse progressive death metal architecture with deathcore muscle, bringing technical song construction and shifting dynamics to a brutally heavy foundation that has made them one of Georgia's more compositionally ambitious extreme acts since 2017.
Misa Negra is a death metal band from Buenos Aires whose current lineup features Martin Madariaga and Mauro Mainero on guitars, Joaquin Vazquez on bass, Eduardo Turco on drums, and León Emiliano Pardo on vocals. They released their debut full-length Ceremonia in May 2018 and followed it with Umbral del Báratro in 2025, establishing themselves as one of the more active acts in the Buenos Aires death metal underground.
Misa Negra is a death metal band from Buenos Aires whose current lineup features Martin Madariaga and Mauro Mainero on guitars, Joaquin Vazquez on bass, Eduardo Turco on drums, and León Emiliano Pardo on vocals. They released their debut full-length Ceremonia in May 2018 and followed it with Umbral del Báratro in 2025, establishing themselves as one of the more active acts in the Buenos Aires death metal underground.
Misaligned is a melodic death metal act from Helsinki, emerging in 2022 with a modern take on the Scandinavian melodeath sound. The band layers clean melodic passages over aggressive rhythmic foundations, reflecting the genre's continued evolution.
North Carolina's Misandristic Mutilation emerged in 2022 with a punishing brutal death metal sound oriented around hyper-aggressive guitar work, blasting percussion, and a confrontational thematic stance that lands squarely in the uncompromising end of the genre.
Misanthrofeel is a experimental industrial metal (early); funeral doom/death metal (later) band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2009. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Blistering Death / Thrash Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
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