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Médian is a melodic black and death metal band from Troyes, France, formed in 2020. They blend melodic black metal with death metal from the Champagne region.
A depressive/post-black metal project from Rostov-on-Don, Mélancolie channels French-language melancholy into sprawling, mournful compositions since 2019. The project delivers emotionally devastating black metal from southern Russia.
Mélas Morion is a black metal project from Lviv, active since 2018. The project channels the ancient Greek term for 'black crystal' into atmospheric, gem-dark black metal from western Ukraine.
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Mên Scryfa is a doom metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2013. Named after the ancient Cornish standing stone, they deliver monolithic doom of ancient weight.
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.
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