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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.
Misanthrope Count Mercyful is a death/thrash metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A black metal project from Erfurt in Thuringia, Misanthroph weaves cold, misanthropic atmosphere through tremolo-picked riffs and blast-driven aggression. Emerging in 2011, the act channels the isolation of eastern Germany's underground into venomous compositions.
Misanthropic emerged from Espírito Santo's underground with a corrosive, lo-fi approach to black metal, channeling pure hostility through deliberately raw production and abrasive riffing. The project surfaced with the promotional demo Pain in 2005 and followed with the album Echoes of the Nightmare in 2007, cementing their place in the uncompromising Brazilian raw black metal scene.
Misanthropic Art is a brutal death metal band from Wetteren, Belgium, formed in 1999. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
A black metal project from Desenzano del Garda on the shores of Lake Garda, Misanthropic Desire channels the hatred suggested by its name into cold, aggressive compositions since 2024. The project draws on the lake's dramatic landscape as a backdrop for misanthropic black metal.
A black/death metal act from Worcester, Misanthropic Existence has been delivering hostile extremity since 2012. The band channels the hatred inherent in their name into aggressive compositions that merge the ferocity of death metal with black metal's cold atmosphere.
Misanthropic Forest is a black metal project from the southwestern Finnish town of Salo, active since 2017. The project channels the hatred of humanity into nature-inspired, forest-dwelling black metal.
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