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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Me0d is a death and doom metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. They blend death metal's aggression with doom's glacial weight.
ME262 is a NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from London, England, formed in 2017. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal through classic, riff-driven compositions.
Mea Culpa is a Czech band from the Humpolec/Pelhřimov area, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from death metal roots into thrash metal and crossover territory. This stylistic shift reflects a restless creative energy that bridges extreme metal's heaviest and most riff-driven subgenres.
Denver's Mead Thief blend heavy doom with the muscle of classic heavy metal, evoking mile-high altitude and long, barren stretches of highway in equal measure. Since forming in 2020, the band has leaned into slow, crushing riffs anchored by a traditional songwriting sensibility that keeps the hooks in reach.
A progressive metal band from Bruges, Belgium, active in the Belgian underground metal scene. Limited documentation survives online, reflecting their status as a local independent act operating outside the mainstream.
Meadows is a progressive/sludge metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 2018. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
A symphonic/melodic death metal act from the northern Swedish town of Örnsköldsvik, Meadows End has been delivering orchestral extremity since 2018. The band layers sweeping symphonic arrangements over aggressive melodeath foundations.
Meaht is a thrash metal band from Magdeburg, Germany, active since 2017 with releases including the album "Destroy/Rebuild." Their sound delivers aggressive thrash metal from the capital of Saxony-Anhalt.
Mean Messiah is an industrial death/thrash metal trio from North Bohemia, Czech Republic, active since 2013 with a prolific output spanning seven releases from "Hell" through 2025's "Death Is On My Side." The band's core of Dan Friml, Lenka Čechová, and Matěj Meier blends machine-like industrial aggression with the riff-driven attack of death and thrash metal.
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