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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 Torment is a thrash metal act from the UK, formed in 2025. The band delivers aggressive, emotionally charged thrash metal with a focus on personal turmoil and psychological themes.
My Torments is a black metal and punk band from Finland, formed in 2025. They fuse raw black metal aggression with punk's rebellious energy.
My Universe is a progressive metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2025. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
A depressive black metal project out of Sacramento, California, My Useless Life traffics in the suffocating misery and lo-fi aesthetics that define the DSBM underground, delivering bleak, introspective compositions that lean heavily on raw atmosphere over technical polish.
Nashville's My Wall stacks the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal atop a stoner-rock foundation, building slow-burning riffs soaked in fuzz and Southern grit that grind forward with deliberate, hypnotic heaviness.
My Widow is a depressive black/doom metal band from Bryansk, Russia, formed in 2013. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
My Wooden Pillow is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Manchester, England, formed in 2019. They blend melodic death metal with metalcore from the northwest of England.
My-Laï is a power metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2012. They craft soaring power metal from the Champagne region.
A black metal project from Leipzig, Myasthenia Graves takes its name from the autoimmune neuromuscular disease. Active since 2019, the project channels physical deterioration into dark, wasting black metal compositions.
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