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Formed in 2022 in Chicago, Misfire deliver energetic, hard-hitting thrash metal that taps into the genre's classic crossover roots, carving out a spot in the city's active heavy metal underground with straightforward riff intensity and driving tempos.
Misfolded is a melodic death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, featuring the unusual dual-frontwoman lineup of Jana Kopecka and Jana Oltova. Their 2016 debut "Restless Continuum" delivers eleven tracks of intricate melodic death metal with metalcore inflections, driven by the interplay of two powerful female voices.
A death metal and hardcore act from Toruń, Misguided formed in 2024. The band delivers aggressive, confrontational compositions from the medieval university city.
A death metal act from Umeå in northern Sweden, Mishrak has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2019. The band channels the frigid atmosphere of Norrland into crushing death metal.
Misled Generation is a melodic death metal and metalcore act from Hyvinkää, active since 2020. The band channels generational disillusionment into emotionally charged, harmonized compositions.
Mismatched is a blackened death/groove metal band from Poznań, Poland, formed in 2018. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Misogynist is a grindcore/death metal act from Choťovice, Czech Republic, active since 2015. Their sound inhabits the brutal extremes of underground metal, combining grindcore's relentless velocity with death metal's guttural heaviness.
Seattle's Misogyny have been delivering technical death metal since 2011, bringing the Pacific Northwest's characteristically sharp musicianship to a style defined by complex, shifting guitar work and brutal execution rooted in the upper echelon of the American technical death scene.
Misonoia is a melodic black and death metal band from France, formed in 2025. They blend melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's visceral aggression.
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