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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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New York's Misanthropæ operate in the volatile space between black metal's frost-bitten fury and grindcore's demolition-speed blasting, delivering a confrontational blackened grindcore attack of crushing brevity and abrasive noise since forming in 2021.
Misantropus is a doom metal act from Latina in southern Lazio, delivering crushing, misanthropic compositions since 2010. The band channels their contempt for humanity into glacially slow, oppressive doom.
Miserate is a doom/death metal band from Norway, formed in 2001. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Misericorde is a doom metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2022. Named after the medieval mercy dagger, they deliver crushing doom from Merseyside.
Misericordia is a gothic/doom metal band from Pays de la Loire, France, formed in 1995. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
Portland, Maine's Misery are practitioners of the most desolate strain of funeral doom, stretching compositions to glacial lengths and burying melody beneath layers of crushing weight, operating at the far, airless margins of the genre since 2003.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Misery Machine blend the mournful melody of doom metal with the heaviness of death metal in a melodic doom/death style that has earned them a dedicated following in the Appalachian region's underground since their 2022 formation.
Mislead by Beauty is a doom, gothic, and alternative metal band from the UK, formed in 2025. They blend doom and gothic metal's dark aesthetics with alternative accessibility.
A psychedelic doom metal act from the central Portuguese city of Leiria, Misleading has been crafting mind-bending compositions since 2019. The band layers hallucinatory textures over crushing doom foundations.
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