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Mërgim is a Buenos Aires sludge/post-metal trio consisting of Gustavo Cirigliano on guitar, Sebastián Manino on bass, and Nicolás Melichar on drums. They released their debut album Shpirti in March 2020, recorded at Estudio Instituto TAMABA, followed by the five-track record I in July 2022, produced with Martín Gandulfo at Estudio Paraíso.
Mízar is a power and folk metal band from A Coruña, Spain, formed in 2016. They blend power metal's soaring energy with folk metal's Celtic and Galician-inspired melodies.
Mòine is a black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2023. Their Gaelic name meaning "peat" roots their black metal in Scottish landscape and heritage.
Mórbida Exhumación is a death metal band from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego — one of the southernmost active metal acts in the world. The band released the EP Liberando el Dolor in 2020, followed by the full-length Alteracion Morbosa de la Personalidad in October 2021, a ten-track record with lyrics drawing on horror and gore themes.
San Diego's Möbius began as a heavy metal and grunge act in 2020 before eventually pivoting toward punk rock, tracing a stylistic arc reflected in their evolving Bandcamp catalog. The band's trajectory mirrors a deliberate move away from heavy metal's formalism toward rawer, more stripped-down territory.
Möhryäk is a Dublin-based black metal project formed in 2022, with a name that channels Scandinavian linguistic influence. The project delivers raw, aggressive black metal from the Irish capital.
Mörbidez is a one-man black thrash project that recorded its entire debut, Sob o Signo de Belial, between April and May 2020 at the creator's own Casa da Bruxa studio in Vitória. The album channels the ragged energy of first-wave black metal and South American speed metal through nine Portuguese-language tracks steeped in satanic imagery, and was released in June 2020 alongside a bonus covers EP titled Limbo.
Mördare is a crust punk and d-beat band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2007. Their 2012 LP 'Vientos de Mierda,' recorded at Thrashzone Studio, delivers nine tracks of raw, politically charged punk hardcore including a Totalitär cover, following their 2008 split 7" with Swedish band Raw that accompanied a European tour.
Mördark is a black and heavy metal band from Ceuta, Spain, formed in 2011. They fuse black metal's darkness with heavy metal's classic power from the Spanish enclave on the African coast.
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