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In The Name of Reason (2017)
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Misocainea is a heavy metal act from the Cornish town of Truro, active since 2018. Operating from one of England's most southwesterly points, the band delivers classic metal to a region with a small but passionate underground scene.
Misogynist is a grindcore/death metal act from Choťovice, Czech Republic, active since 2015. Their sound inhabits the brutal extremes of underground metal, combining grindcore's relentless velocity with death metal's guttural heaviness.
Seattle's Misogyny have been delivering technical death metal since 2011, bringing the Pacific Northwest's characteristically sharp musicianship to a style defined by complex, shifting guitar work and brutal execution rooted in the upper echelon of the American technical death scene.
Misonoia is a melodic black and death metal band from France, formed in 2025. They blend melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's visceral aggression.
Misophonia is a symphonic and melodic death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2012. They layer symphonic arrangements over melodic death metal from the Scottish scene.
Manville, Rhode Island's Misotheist deal in ice-cold, antagonistic black metal shaped by a deeply anti-religious worldview, operating since 2012 within New England's characteristically bleak and self-contained underground with a sound that prizes hostility and atmosphere above all else.
Toronto-based Misothronos weave together melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication, black metal's atmospheric hostility, and thrash metal's kinetic energy into a dynamic, multi-layered extreme metal sound that defies clean genre categorization since forming in 2018.
Troy, Ohio's Miss May I emerged from small-town America to become fixtures of the Warped Tour metalcore circuit, with 'Apologies Are for the Weak' and 'Monument' delivering anthemic choruses wrapped in technical dual-guitar work. Levi Benton's commanding screams and the band's arena-ready songwriting earned them a loyal following during metalcore's commercial peak in the early 2010s.
Missas Negras operates in the Satanic and occult tradition of Brazilian black metal, building their sound around themes of sexual magic, anti-Christianity, and sadomasochistic ritual. Active since 2014 and entirely independent, the band represents the uncompromising underground black metal spirit of the Mato Grosso do Sul scene.
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