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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.
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.
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.
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