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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Pearsall, Texas's Mute TX formed in 2022 playing groove and heavy metal from a small ranching town in South Texas, channeling working-class grit into a sound built on down-tuned riffs and hard-driving rhythms. Their presence demonstrates that Texas metal has roots in places far beyond the major metro areas.
My Bloodline is a groove metal, hard rock, and alternative rock band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2026. They blend heavy groove metal with accessible rock influences.
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My Mythology is a blackened groove/post-metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. They craft atmospheric, dynamic post-metal compositions.
MyGrain is a melodic death and groove metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Minneapolis's Myiasis, active since 2019, merges the neck-snapping groove of groove metal with the aggression and structural intensity of metalcore, delivering a sound built on churning mid-tempo heaviness and rhythmic punch.
MYMX is a death and groove metal band from the UK, formed in 2022. They blend death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Mysore is a melodic death and groove metal band from the Salo-Turku area of Finland, formed in 2018. They fuse melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic drive.
Petaluma, California's Mythborn formed in 2016 and blend progressive and groove metal with a focus on rhythmic complexity and dynamic range — technically ambitious without losing the punchy, physicality that groove metal demands, drawing from the Bay Area's broad-minded metal heritage.
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