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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Cleveland's Mystic Underworld formed in 2020 and blend black metal with ambient elements, pairing harsh, atmospheric black metal passages with spacious, drone-informed interludes that give their sound a meditative, underworld-descending quality.
Baltimore's Mystic-Force have been developing their progressive heavy and power metal sound since 2010, building elaborate song structures around virtuosic playing and wide-ranging dynamics that set them apart from the more straightforward side of the power metal scene.
Mystical Death is a technical/progressive death metal act from Amsterdam, formed in 2024. The band pushes death metal into complex, ambitious territory from the Dutch capital.
Mystical Forces is a black metal and ambient project from the UK, formed in 2022. They blend black metal darkness with ambient atmospheres.
Breeding the Shadows is a black, gothic, and doom metal act from Athens, formed in 2020. The band merges the dark romanticism of gothic metal with the aggression of black metal and the crushing weight of doom.
Mystical Vision play straight-ahead thrash metal rooted firmly in the old-school tradition, with their 2016 album Alchemy of Chaos showcasing tight, aggressive riffing driven by guitarists Carlos Mota and Silas Pimenta alongside the vocals and bass of Marcelo Sanches. A later release, A First Vision of Hell, continued the band's commitment to classic thrash sounds produced at GHM Studios in Manaus.
MysticalGate is a progressive/doom metal (early); progressive/death metal (later) band from Voronezh, Russia, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Operating out of Battle Ground, Washington since 2006, Mysticism Black have spent nearly two decades cultivating a dense, Pacific Northwest strain of black metal — cold, fog-heavy, and rooted in the isolated forests and overcast skies of the region.
Mysticisme is a black metal project from Strasbourg in Alsace, active since 2014. The project channels the mystical traditions of the Rhine borderland into contemplative, atmospheric black metal.
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