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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Mirth of the Woodcutter is a sludge, doom metal, and noise band from Cheltenham, England, formed in 2023. They forge a chaotic blend of sludge, doom, and noise.
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.
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.
Misanthropium is a black/doom/gothic metal, ambient band from Serbia, formed in 2017. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
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.
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