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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Mental Illness is a progressive/death metal act from Norway, active since 2015. The band channels psychological turmoil into technically ambitious, emotionally intense compositions.
Mental Reflections is a progressive metal band from Bryansk, Russia, formed in 2015. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Mentality is a progressive metal band from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2017. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Menturas is a thrash and progressive metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2006. They blend thrash metal's aggression with progressive complexity.
Mercurial from Warrensburg, Missouri brings a genuinely exploratory sensibility to progressive death metal, having developed their sound since 2006 in a state not typically associated with the genre's avant-garde edge. Their music blends technical death metal's precision with progressive rock's willingness to stretch structures beyond conventional limits, producing work that rewards close listening as much as it satisfies the appetite for brutality.
Mercurocromo is a progressive metal band from Italy, formed in 2020. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition and creative depth.
Meriah is a progressive black metal act from the southern Swedish town of Karlshamn, formed in 2023. The band pushes black metal into progressive territory from the Blekinge coast.
A progressive power metal and hard rock act from the Silesian mountain town of Kamienna Góra, Merithum has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2016. The band channels the Sudeten mountain landscape into epic, melodic metal.
Merodah is a groove/progressive metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2017. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
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