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A progressive power metal and hard rock act from the Silesian mountain town of Kamienna Góra, Merithum has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2016. The band channels the Sudeten mountain landscape into epic, melodic metal.
Merkfolk is a folk metal band from Lublin/Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland, formed in 2015. They weave folk traditions into heavy metal compositions.
Merkvid is a atmospheric black metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2022. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Kansas City's Merlin have been summoning slow, heavy doom since 2012, drawing on the genre's most hypnotic and repetitive qualities to build music that feels ancient and ritual in character. Their name invokes a mythic register that suits the approach: this is doom metal as incantation, patient and heavy, built to overwhelm through accumulation rather than speed.
Merlot is a gothic metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2017. They craft brooding gothic metal layered with dark romanticism and emotive heaviness.
Merodah is a groove/progressive metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2017. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
A black metal project from Wetteren and later Herzele in East Flanders, Belgium, originally forming in 1996 as a one-man endeavor that circulated six songs on two private cassettes before going dormant. Revived in 2020, the band recorded 'Old Rites Revisited' (2022) at The Necrogarage in Merelbeke, revisiting early material with drummer LQW of Alkerdeel, and centering their lyrical themes around Belgian witch hunts, torture, and occult history.
Merowig is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2013. They channel dark French black metal through a Merovingian-inspired historical lens.
Merrimack is a black metal band from Paris, France, active since 2002, described as an enigmatic force exploring Luciferian spirituality through extreme metal. Their catalog from Ashes of Purification through 2024's Of Grace and Gravity channels fierce, melodic black metal with philosophical depth.
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