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Miserable Failure is a grindcore and death metal act from Marseille, grinding out short, furious compositions since 2013. The band embodies the self-deprecating humor and unrelenting aggression that define the grindcore ethos.
Miserate is a doom/death metal band from Norway, formed in 2001. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Miseria is a black and death metal band from Lübbenau, Germany, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal rooted in the darkness where black and death metal collide.
Misericorde is a doom metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2022. Named after the medieval mercy dagger, they deliver crushing doom from Merseyside.
Misericordia is a gothic/doom metal band from Pays de la Loire, France, formed in 1995. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
Las Vegas's Misericordiam are one of Nevada's most sonically restless extreme acts, having moved through grindcore, deathcore, brutal death metal, and hardcore over nearly two decades, always holding to a philosophy of unrelenting aggression and maximum sonic density.
A progressive metal act from Budapest, Miserium has been crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2013. The band channels the melancholy suggested by their name into complex, emotionally charged progressive metal.
Misertus is an atmospheric and post-black metal band from Macclesfield, England, formed in 2019. They craft expansive post-black metal compositions with atmospheric depth.
Portland, Maine's Misery are practitioners of the most desolate strain of funeral doom, stretching compositions to glacial lengths and burying melody beneath layers of crushing weight, operating at the far, airless margins of the genre since 2003.
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