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Membrance is a death metal act from Venice, active since 2017. The band delivers aggressive extremity from the Veneto, channeling the region's rich musical heritage into crushing compositions.
Membrane is a band from Vesoul, France, active since 2001, having evolved from post-hardcore origins into sludge and post-metal. Their two-decade creative arc traces a trajectory from angular post-hardcore toward crushing atmospheric heaviness.
Memembris is a symphonic black metal (early); black/death metal (later) band from Łomża, Poland, formed in 2017. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Memento is a heavy/doom metal act from Porto, active since 2020. The band delivers crushing, reflective compositions from Portugal's northern capital with the contemplative weight their name implies.
Woodland, California's Memento Mori have spent over a decade — since 2012 — navigating the uncomfortable space where progressive ambition collides with death metal's most destructive impulses. They construct songs of genuine compositional depth without sanding away the aggression that makes death metal viscerally compelling, threading technical passages through punishing rhythmic slabs. It is a balance many bands attempt and few achieve with the kind of coherent vision Memento Mori have developed across their catalog.
Memento Waltz is a progressive metal band from Tempio Pausania (Gallura North-East Sardinia), Italy, formed in 2013. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition and creative depth.
Mementoria is a progressive metal/rock band from Bielsko-Biała, Poland, formed in 2016. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Memfis is a progressive/melodic death metal act from Kristinehamn in Värmland, active since 2011. The band channels the ancient city's grandeur into technically ambitious, melodic compositions.
Memnoch is a death/thrash metal band from Meißen, Germany, formed in 2018. Named after Anne Rice's fictional devil, their sound combines death metal's brutality with thrash's velocity from the historic Saxon porcelain city.
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