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Mirzadeh is a melodic black and gothic metal band from Alajärvi, Finland, active since 2003. They blend melodic black metal with gothic atmospheres, creating dark, emotive compositions.
Misa Negra is a death metal band from Buenos Aires whose current lineup features Martin Madariaga and Mauro Mainero on guitars, Joaquin Vazquez on bass, Eduardo Turco on drums, and León Emiliano Pardo on vocals. They released their debut full-length Ceremonia in May 2018 and followed it with Umbral del Báratro in 2025, establishing themselves as one of the more active acts in the Buenos Aires death metal underground.
Misa Silenciada is a blackened avant-garde metal project formed in 2025 in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, blending black, doom, death, thrash, and heavy metal into an experimental, atmospheric sound. The band released the album Vitrales Rotos de la Memoria Onirica along with the EP Constelación Inmaculada on Bandcamp.
Misaligned is a melodic death metal act from Helsinki, emerging in 2022 with a modern take on the Scandinavian melodeath sound. The band layers clean melodic passages over aggressive rhythmic foundations, reflecting the genre's continued evolution.
North Carolina's Misandristic Mutilation emerged in 2022 with a punishing brutal death metal sound oriented around hyper-aggressive guitar work, blasting percussion, and a confrontational thematic stance that lands squarely in the uncompromising end of the genre.
Misannthrophie come out of Embu Guacu, a municipality on the rural southern edge of the Sao Paulo metropolitan sprawl, the kind of half-forested borderland where the city's grid finally gives way to mata atlantica and dirt roads. That geography matters. Raw black metal in Brazil has always carried a particular character, less interested in the polished Norwegian template than in the heat-warped lo-fi tradition that runs from Vulcano through Sarcofago's primitivism and into the cassette-tape underground that has thrived in Sao Paulo state for decades. Misannthrophie work squarely inside that lineage. Their sound is thin, ugly, and intentional, with treble-shredded guitars, drums recorded under what sounds like a single overhead mic and vocals that move between hoarse shrieks and exhausted snarls. There is no concession to clarity, no flirtation with melodic black metal's prettier registers. The point is the discomfort itself. Sao Paulo's underground is vast enough to support every conceivable strain of extreme metal, and the raw black metal corner has stayed stubbornly DIY: hand-dubbed tapes, blurry photocopied logos, shows in basements and rehearsal rooms rather than the larger clubs that book the city's more visible thrash and death bands. Misannthrophie's deliberately corroded production places them inside that corner, alongside a national network of one-or-two-person projects who treat fidelity as a moral compromise. The misanthropy in the name is not posture either; Brazilian raw black metal has long traded in a kind of bleakness specific to peripheries, a refusal of the official optimism of the country that surrounds it. From the wooded outskirts of greater Sao Paulo, Misannthrophie keep that older underground tradition alive on its own ungenerous terms.
Misanthrofeel is a experimental industrial metal (early); funeral doom/death metal (later) band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2009. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Blistering Death / Thrash Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas's Misanthrope take an abrasive crossover approach, smashing death metal heaviness into the velocity of thrash and the raw, confrontational energy of hardcore for a sound that hits with the blunt force of a live wire since their 2023 formation.
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