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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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My Minds Mine is a grindcore act from the Frisian towns of Reduzum and Dokkum, delivering rapid-fire blasts of noise since 2018. The band brings extreme music to one of the Netherlands' most rural and linguistically distinct regions.
Lowell, Massachusetts act My Missing Half have worked a melodic death metal and metalcore hybrid since 2014, combining throat-shredding aggression with structured riffing and the emotionally forward songwriting common to New England's metalcore scene.
My Mythology is a blackened groove/post-metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. They craft atmospheric, dynamic post-metal compositions.
My Nothing is a thrash/death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
My Own Fear is a thrash and death metal band from Val d'Oise, France, formed in 2014. They forge aggressive extreme metal from the northern Paris suburbs.
A crossover/thrash metal and metalcore act from Groningen, My Own Words has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2016. The band channels personal expression through the energy of crossover thrash.
Rock Island, Illinois death metal band My Pal Trigger have been a fixture of the Midwestern underground since 2011, their sardonically casual name belying a grinding, unrelenting death metal attack.
Beverly, Massachusetts veterans My Pet Demon have been carrying the torch for heavy and thrash metal since 2001, their North Shore Massachusetts roots showing in a tough, workmanlike approach to classic metal forms.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's My Purest Heart for You have cultivated a post-black and atmospheric black metal sound since 2016, using layered guitar textures and emotional expanse to contrast sharply with the coastal resort town surrounding them.
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