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Wisconsin's Merging with Machines have been pursuing a cold, mechanized vision of death metal since 2014, grafting industrial metal's processed textures and programmatic logic onto the genre's foundation of brutality. The result is music that feels inhuman in a deliberate way — the organic violence of death metal filtered through machinery, producing something both familiar and deeply unsettling.
Meriah is a progressive black metal act from the southern Swedish town of Karlshamn, formed in 2023. The band pushes black metal into progressive territory from the Blekinge coast.
Merichane is a thrash metal act from the northern English city of Lancaster, active since 2016. The band delivers aggressive, tempo-shifting compositions from the Lancashire underground.
A stoner and doom metal act from London, Meridian Sun formed in 2023 with a sound built on massive, sun-baked riffs and hypnotic grooves. The band adds to the capital's robust doom and stoner metal contingent.
Meridian Zero is a heavy metal band from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, formed in 2020. They channel classic heavy metal from the Canary Islands with driving riffs and powerful performances.
Meridion is a four-piece death metal band from Santiago, Chile, founded in 2017, whose music blends dark and technical death metal with themes drawn from Andean aboriginal culture, occultism, and colonial history. The band released their debut full-length Rise from the South in 2018 and followed it with the eight-track Caverns (2024) through Mexican underground label Iron, Blood and Death Corporation.
Merihem is a death/thrash metal band from Goes, the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Merihim is a death metal act from Bristol, active since 2012 and channeling the city's diverse musical heritage into aggressive extremity. The band takes its name from demonology, matching the dark themes with crushing compositions.
Merit is a gothic metal band from Aalen, Germany, active since 2012. Their sound draws from the atmospheric darkness and emotional depth of gothic metal, emerging from the eastern Baden-Württemberg underground.
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