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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Megatherium is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal act from Verona, named after the prehistoric giant ground sloth since 2015. The band delivers appropriately massive, slow-moving compositions drenched in psychedelic haze.
Megazostrodon is a death/doom metal band from Cologne, Germany, named after one of Earth's earliest mammalian ancestors. Their 2020 self-titled EP delivers two tracks of dense, crushing doom-death with massive, hovering riffs that draw from cosmic and atmospheric doom traditions.
Megelnyk is an old-school death metal band from Písek, Czech Republic, whose 2022 debut "Proklaté příběhy z Píseckých hor" weaves dark folklore and local mythology into five tracks of crushing metal. Their Czech-language lyrics draw from the supernatural legends and tragic history of the Písek mountain region.
Meifu is a psychedelic doom metal act from Florence, formed in 2022 and named after the Japanese underworld. The band layers Eastern mysticism over crushing doom foundations, creating a transcultural sonic ritual.
Melangia is a doom and death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel crushing doom-death through oppressive heaviness and atmospheric desolation.
Melem is a death and doom metal band from Bourg-en-Bresse, France, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
A heavy/power/speed metal act from Debrecen, Burning Sun has been delivering energetic, classic-style metal since 2022. The band channels the radiant intensity of their name into fast, melodic compositions rooted in the NWOBHM and speed metal traditions.
Brooklyn's Melissa emerged in 2021 dragging black metal through the borough's gutter — all corroded riffs, spat-out vocals, and punk scorn welded onto a raw, lo-fi chassis. The New York City underground has long been fertile ground for this kind of corrosive collision, and Melissa leans into it without apology, favoring atmosphere built from filth rather than grandeur. Their black metal/punk hybrid feels less like genre tourism and more like a natural product of a city that has never had time for pretense.
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