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Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra is a dark ambient and black metal project from Kharkiv, one of Ukraine's most established underground projects since 1996. Three decades of activity have produced a vast catalog of atmospheric, ritual-driven compositions.
Mistmoor is a black metal band from Finland, formed in 2023. They channel cold, atmospheric Finnish black metal darkness.
Mistnight is a heavy and black metal band from Finland, formed in 2022. They merge heavy metal's classic power with black metal's dark atmosphere.
Mistral is a progressive/post-metal band from Tilburg, the Netherlands, formed in 2020. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Mistralth is a gothic/doom/death metal band from Finland, formed in 2017. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Formed in 2025, Mistreated carry the torch of traditional heavy metal and hard rock with a sound rooted in classic British influences, offering straightforward riff-driven metal that keeps faith with the genre's foundational spirit.
Cleveland, Ohio's Mistreater are a 2023-formed traditional heavy metal band channeling the raw, working-class aggression of early American and British metal, fitting naturally into Cleveland's long history as a city that has always embraced the harder and heavier end of rock.
Mistrust is a power metal act from the Pomeranian port city of Elbląg, active since 2021. The band delivers epic, melodic compositions despite the skeptical implications of their name.
A folk/Viking/black metal act from the Sognefjord area, Mistur draws deeply from the spectacular western Norwegian landscape. Active since 2016, the band channels the region's fjords, mountains, and medieval stave churches into atmospheric, nature-driven black metal.
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