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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Merciless Terror is a death/thrash metal act from Nottingham, delivering relentless aggression since 2009. The band channels the East Midlands underground's appetite for extreme music into a blistering crossover of death metal brutality and thrash velocity.
Merciless Warfare is a black/death metal band from Galicia, Spain, dealing in unrelenting war metal. Active since at least 2009, they appeared on the 'Unholy Extermination Squad' four-way split alongside Ampütator, Demonomancy, and Warbutcher, released as a limited 200-copy cassette through Deathcult Genozide Productions.
Mercilless carry on the raw thrash metal tradition of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, a region that also spawned Deathraiser. The band channels the aggressive, politically charged spirit of the South American thrash scene, with early material appearing on the Deströyer Zine Compilation Vol. 1 alongside the track 'Lethal Disaster.'
Mercuria is a heavy/power metal act from the central Italian city of Macerata, active since 2005. One of the region's most established metal acts, the band delivers melodic, anthemic compositions rooted in the European power metal tradition.
Mercurial from Warrensburg, Missouri brings a genuinely exploratory sensibility to progressive death metal, having developed their sound since 2006 in a state not typically associated with the genre's avant-garde edge. Their music blends technical death metal's precision with progressive rock's willingness to stretch structures beyond conventional limits, producing work that rewards close listening as much as it satisfies the appetite for brutality.
West Monroe, Louisiana's Mercurial have been forging a blackened death metal sound since 2006 that carries a distinctly Southern darkness — not the gothic humidity of New Orleans but something rawer, more rural, and deeply menacing. Their fusion of black metal's cold atmosphere with death metal's blunt force gives their work a disorienting character that resists easy categorization.
Mercurocromo is a progressive metal band from Italy, formed in 2020. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition and creative depth.
Bursa Lamb is a brutal death metal act from Athens, delivering punishing extremity since 2014. The band contributes to the Greek capital's underground with guttural, blast-driven compositions.
A heavy metal and hard rock act from Stockholm, Mercury Fang has been delivering classic-style metal since 2020. The band channels the venomous strike of their name into hook-driven compositions.
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