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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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Mendigo is a black metal and ambient project from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2014. They fuse raw black metal darkness with ambient soundscapes and atmospheric depth.
Meneapneontes is a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They channel dark black metal from the cradle of Western civilization.
Menegroth is a melodic thrash and black metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2016, taking their Tolkien-derived name from the Thousand Caves of Thingol's realm. Their sound weaves melodic sensibility through a foundation of thrash and black metal aggression, blending sharp riffwork with atmospheric passages.
Menetekel is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2025. Named after the biblical "writing on the wall" prophecy of doom, their sound channels ominous, atmospheric black metal.
Menhyr is a doom/post-metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2014. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
A melodic death metal act from Oulu in northern Finland, Menial emerged in 2019 with a sound rooted in the Scandinavian melodeath tradition. The band brings the cold, wintry atmosphere of the Arctic Circle region into their harmonized guitar work.
Menials is a sludge, post-metal, and hardcore band from Jyväskylä, Finland, formed in 2025. They fuse sludge metal's abrasive weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Portland, Oregon's Menin have been sculpting stoner/doom metal since 2017 with the unhurried confidence of a band that understands what the genre demands: weight, patience, and a riff heavy enough to collapse under its own gravity. Portland's fertile underground has long welcomed the slow and heavy, and Menin fit naturally into that tradition — drawing from the psychedelic fog of stoner metal while anchoring everything in the bone-deep plod of doom. Their sound evokes the Pacific Northwest's overcast skies and towering forests, a particular kind of gloom that is neither aggressive nor resigned but simply immovable.
San Fernando Valley's Menk have been dragging death metal through a hardcore/punk filter since 2018, producing something rawer and more confrontational than the genre's polished technical end — a death metal/punk hybrid that owes as much to d-beat and early hardcore as it does to Morbid Angel. Los Angeles has a long underground tradition of genre-crossing brutality, and Menk embody that spirit by building a sound that is ugly, direct, and unapologetically aggressive. They are a Valley band in the best sense: scrappy, loud, and refusing to be smoothed down.
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