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Mitrofanx is a death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. Their self-titled 2022 EP delivers four tracks of death metal with progressive and grindcore touches, recorded and mastered by Jesús Pereira, showcasing the technical ambitions of the Barcelona underground.
Mitsein is a symphonic metal outfit from Brasília built around the guitar work of Jeff Oliveira and the vocals of Cristienne Graciano. The band draws broadly from power, progressive, and melodic metal and has released singles and EPs since 2020, including a contribution to the Motim Underground compilation with the track "Revenge" in 2021.
Mityma operate from Rio de Janeiro, working a sound that splits the difference between sludge metal's tar-thick low end, the murk of blackened doom and a faintly hallucinatory stoner haze. Rio's extreme metal community has always sat in an odd, productive shadow of Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte. The city produced foundational acts like Dorsal Atlantica and Apokalyptic Raids, but its more recent identity has been forged at street level, in the DIY rehearsal spaces and small venues scattered across the Zona Norte and the suburban grid, where doom, sludge and atmospheric black metal have all found a stubborn foothold. Mityma belong to that quietly fertile scene. Their music is built around enormous, dragging riffs that bend toward dissonance rather than groove, layered with vocals pitched somewhere between sludge bark and black metal rasp. There is a deliberate refusal to commit to a single genre vocabulary; the songs lurch through stoner-influenced passages that suddenly tighten into tremolo-picked black metal sections before collapsing back into doomy lurch. That blackened-doom hybrid has become a recognisable Brazilian dialect over the past decade, and Rio in particular has produced a small constellation of bands working that vein, drawing equally from Eyehategod's swamp-belly heaviness and the colder atmospherics of European blackened sludge. The humidity and density of the city seep into the recordings; the guitars sound like they were tracked in a stairwell, the drums like they were captured at distance. Mityma's appeal is precisely that refusal to clean any of it up. They make music that sounds like Rio, not the postcard Rio, but the harder, wetter, more claustrophobic version that the city's underground has spent decades documenting.
A black metal act from the Adriatic port city of Rijeka, Balkis has been crafting dark, atmospheric compositions since 2012. The band operates within Croatia's small but dedicated black metal underground.
Mizantropia is a extreme gothic metal band from Zaporizhia, Ukraine, formed in 2014. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal layered with emotional depth.
Beerkrieg is a speed/thrash metal and crossover act from the Dalmatian town of Sinj, delivering alcohol-fueled aggression since 2014. The band channels the irreverent energy of party thrash into their crossover sound.
A black metal act from Yekaterinburg in the Urals, Mizoteist channels misothetic, god-hating themes into aggressive compositions since 2021. The band operates from one of Russia's most active extreme metal hubs.
Miško Boba is a black metal project from Harrogate, England, formed in 2024. They channel dark black metal from the Yorkshire spa town.
Mjolne is a symphonic black metal band from Norway, formed in 2025. They layer orchestral grandeur over fierce black metal foundations.
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