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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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MyGrain is a melodic death and groove metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Minneapolis's Myiasis, active since 2019, merges the neck-snapping groove of groove metal with the aggression and structural intensity of metalcore, delivering a sound built on churning mid-tempo heaviness and rhythmic punch.
Electronic-laced metalcore from Houston.
A one-man or small-unit project from West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Myke Owns has been blending the thrashing velocity of thrash metal with death metal's low-tuned malice since 2014, operating deep in the Pennsylvania underground.
Brooklyn's Mykey Massacre brings a punk-informed edge to heavy metal, formed in 2021 out of New York City's borough scene with a raw, street-level approach that values attitude and directness over polished production.
A death metal act from Stockholm, Mykorrhiza takes its name from the symbiotic fungal networks that connect tree roots. Active since 2023, the band channels organic, interconnected themes into crushing death metal.
Denver doom outfit Mykosterion, founded in 2023, takes their name and mood from the subterranean and the sacred, building slow, ritualistic heavy metal that suits the high-altitude gravity of the Colorado Front Range.
Detroit thrash act Mykronian has been honing a sharp, riff-driven sound since 2018, pulling from the classic American thrash tradition with the blue-collar intensity that has long defined heavy music coming out of Michigan's Motor City.
A 2025 arrival from Williamson, West Virginia, Mykrydia works in the intersection of depressive and post-black metal, layering bleak Appalachian darkness over atmospheric black metal frameworks that stretch and breathe with post-rock-influenced dynamics.
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