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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Mortualium is a melodic black metal band from Albufeira, Portugal, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Atlanta's Moss and Clay blend atmospheric black metal with genuine folk sensibility — formed in 2022, they weave earthy, melodic elements into their blackened framework, giving their music a distinctly organic and rootsy Georgia character.
A Washington state melodic black metal project formed in 2020, Muerteblanca blends icy atmosphere with melodic sensibility, drawing on the Scandinavian second-wave tradition while carving out its own cold, introspective voice.
Muggnagar is a symphonic/melodic black metal band from Bodø, Norway, formed in 2016. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Mumincunt is a melodic black/death metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2016. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Buffalo, New York's Mutilation Station blend melodic black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality, drawing on the region's frigid winters to inform their dissonant, layered approach since 2022.
Mutilators is a melodic black and death metal band from Ingolstadt, Germany, active since 2009. They blend the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian black-death with aggressive German underground intensity.
My Dark Passenger is a melodic black and death metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2019. They fuse melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's visceral power.
My Deathability is a melodic blackened death metal band from Novosibirsk, Russia, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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