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Miracle Blades is a thrash/death metal/hardcore band from Parma, Italy, formed in 2024. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Mirdyn is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Deventer, the Netherlands, formed in 2011. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Blistering Death / Thrash Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas's Misanthrope take an abrasive crossover approach, smashing death metal heaviness into the velocity of thrash and the raw, confrontational energy of hardcore for a sound that hits with the blunt force of a live wire since their 2023 formation.
Misanthrope Count Mercyful is a death/thrash metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A death/thrash metal act from Zaragoza, Misanthropy emerged in 2024 with a hostile sound blending the speed of thrash with the weight of death metal. The band adds to Aragon's steadily growing extreme metal contingent.
Misantropía is a thrash/black metal band from Villa Alemana in the Valparaíso region of Chile. The band's lyrical themes center on misanthropy, anti-Christianity, mythology, and darkness, operating as an independent, unsigned act within the Chilean extreme metal underground.
Misbegotten were a thrash metal and metalcore band from Lamprechtshausen in the Salzburg region, formed in 1993 and self-described as playing 'Austrian powercore.' The band was active for nearly two decades, released music through Noisehead Records, and played their final concert on October 15th, 2011 before formally disbanding. Their run represents one of the longer careers in the Salzburg underground metal scene.
Miscariage is a thrash metal band from Switzerland, originally formed in the early 1990s by four young metalheads from southwestern Germany worshipping their thrash idols. After disbanding in 1995, they reunited in their original lineup in 2014 when their 1994 demo received a vinyl reissue through Doomentia Records, and have since released 'Peace? Justice? Murder!' (2017) and 'Kill' (2025).
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