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Mimosis is a death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2005, blending melodic and progressive elements into their heavy sound. Their catalog spans four releases from Mimosification to 2020's Risen from Bitter Fields, which was mastered at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden.
MIN is a black/heavy metal act from Oslo, active since 2010. The band merges the aggression of black metal with the melodic hooks of traditional heavy metal.
Min DödsMarsch is a atmospheric black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Philadelphia's Minarchist have been developing their progressive death metal sound since 2016, working in a city that has produced some of the East Coast's most technically focused extreme acts. Their music leans into the intricate, shifting compositional approach that distinguishes progressive death metal from its more blunt-force cousins.
A Jessheim-based act that evolved from avant-garde black metal to progressive metal, Minas has been shape-shifting since 2018. The band channels experimental ambition into constantly evolving compositions.
A black metal project from Bologna named after the dark tower from Tolkien's Gondor, Minas Ithil channels Middle-earth mythology into atmospheric compositions since 2013. The project merges fantasy literature with genuine black metal menace.
Minas Morgul is a melodic death and folk metal band from Vitebsk, Belarus, formed in 2021 that takes its Tolkien-inspired name from the fortress of the Ringwraiths. Not to be confused with the long-running German pagan black metal act of the same name, this Belarusian project blends folk melodies with melodic death metal intensity.
Minato no Nezumi emerge from Santos, the salt-corroded port city anchoring the Baixada Santista, a coastal stretch of Sao Paulo state that has been quietly cultivating one of Brazil's most resilient extreme music scenes since the early 1980s. Santos is the city that gave Brazilian metal Vulcano, one of the country's foundational extreme bands and a direct ancestor of the blacker, dirtier strains that would later define South American underground heaviness, and its ecosystem has continued to support a wide spectrum of punk, hardcore, thrash, and slower, doomier pursuits through venues like the now-mythic Heavy Metal nightclub and contemporary holdouts like Studio Rock Cafe. Minato no Nezumi work in that slower, sludgier territory, dragging the riff vocabulary of NOLA sludge and first-wave doom across the humidity and rust of a working harbor town. The band's name — Japanese for roughly 'harbor rat' — fits both their geography and their aesthetic: scavenging, opportunistic, comfortable in the grime. Their recorded output to date includes a live LP captured at Studio Rock Cafe Santos around 2016 and a 'Raw Reharsal' demo from the same period, both leaning into the room-noise, tape-bleed fidelity that the genre has always treated as a feature rather than a flaw. They share a city with veterans like Chemical Disaster and Surra, but where those bands push into thrash and grind speed, Minato no Nezumi take the opposite route, letting tempos rot and feedback hang, anchoring the heavier, more punishing end of the Baixada's enduring metal continuum.
A death metal act from Stockholm, Minatory formed in 2024. The band delivers threatening, aggressive death metal from the Swedish capital.
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