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Musta Risti is a heavy and doom metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2013. Their Finnish name meaning "Black Cross" reflects their dark, weighty blend of heavy and doom metal.
Mustang is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Athens, Greece, active since 2009. They channel classic heavy metal energy from the Greek capital.
Mustaphorius play the kind of no-frills crossover thrash that worships at the altar of hardcore punk and late-1980s speed metal, with an irreverent streak that runs through their track titles and stagecraft. The band put out the EP "Bebidas e Mosh" in 2015 and returned in 2023 with their full-length "Homem Horrível", cementing their place in Curitiba's underground extreme scene.
A French black metal project, MustardGaz has been crafting chemical-warfare-themed compositions since 2017. The project channels the horror of poison gas warfare into noxious, atmospheric black metal.
Mustasuo is a black metal and crust band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2016. Their name meaning "Black Swamp" captures their blend of black metal's darkness with crust punk's raw urgency.
An atmospheric sludge and post-metal band from Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, active from 2006 to 2015 and revived in 2020, signed to Funtime Records. Their catalog includes the seven-track 'Ebb & Flow' (2013), compared favorably to Cult of Luna for its intense narrative arc, and the recording 'Set the Woods on Fire / Catharsis' (2020), which incorporated guest vocal arrangements by Belgian composer Déhà.
Mustum is a doom metal duo from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2019. Their debut At The Expense Of Others delivers seven tracks of crushing Swabian doom, blending German and English lyrics across nearly 50 minutes of heavy, deliberate compositions.
Hailing from Herten in the Ruhr area, Musty Guts pairs death and thrash metal with a visceral, old-school approach to extremity. Active since 2018, the band channels the industrial heritage of their surroundings into grinding, aggressive compositions.
Los Angeles-based Mutagen trade in black/death metal that favors dark, warring extremes — the atmospheric chaos of black metal pressing hard against death metal's crushing technical framework. Active since 2009, they operate in LA's sprawling underground where genre lines blur under the sheer volume of the city's metal output.
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