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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Aurora, Illinois gave birth to Melting Rot in 2025, a grindcore outfit that wastes no time and shows no mercy. Short songs, maximum punishment — their grindcore is rooted in the classic tradition of brevity as brutality, weaponizing speed and noise against any expectation of melody or restraint. Aurora sits in Chicago's orbit, and that industrial midwest grit runs through Melting Rot's aesthetic like a live wire.
Meltzer is a blackened thrash metal band from the UK, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's relentless velocity.
Meluniblis is a black/death metal band from Turkey, formed in 2023. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
The Melvins, led by the inimitable Buzz Osborne and powerhouse drummer Dale Crover, are one of the most prolific and influential bands in heavy music history, having helped birth both grunge and sludge metal from their origins in Montesano, Washington. Their early work directly influenced Nirvana, Soundgarden, and the entire Pacific Northwest heavy scene, while their restless experimentation across 30+ studio albums has touched on everything from drone metal to punk rock to noise pop. Defiantly uncommercial yet universally respected, the Melvins exist as a singular, irreducible force in underground music.
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An all-female heavy metal band whose lineup includes vocalist Verônica Voxx, guitarists Fernanda Schenker and Helena Accioly, bassist Drika Martins, and drummer Roberta Tesch. They debuted with the EP Catch Me If You Can in 2014 before releasing their full-length Saving You From Reality in 2018, a conceptually driven album rooted in classic heavy metal with bursts of symphonic texture and Voxx's commanding vocal presence at the center.
Melyxylem is a black and death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal from the Scottish northeast.
Membaris is an avant-garde black metal band from Limburg, Germany, active since 2002 with eight releases spanning from "When Darkness Reigns" through 2025's sixth LP "Black Plasma Armour." Their mature, philosophically-charged approach blends intricate bass solos and atmospheric calm with occult invocations of total black metal chaos.
Members of God is a progressive metal band from Salerno, Italy, formed in 2012. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition and creative depth.
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