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The Last Winter is a black/death metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2013. They merge black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing aggression.
The Lifeless is a death metal band from Genoa, Italy, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy, uncompromising death metal from the Ligurian port city.
The Lifted Veil is a black/death metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, formed in 2016. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's ferocity.
The Lump from Rennes deliver slam and brutal death metal with the tumorous, grotesque intensity their name demands since 2017. Their Breton capital base produces compositions as malformed and aggressive as the pathological growth they're named after.
The Machinist is an industrial black/death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2019. Their music melds the mechanical coldness of industrial metal with the extreme aggression of black and death metal, reflecting Manchester's industrial heritage through a sonic lens.
The Malum Process from Antibes on the French Riviera deliver slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore under a name meaning 'the evil process' since 2020. Their sun-drenched Côte d'Azur setting provides ironic contrast to their grotesque sonic violence.
The Mamoulean is a melodic death metal band from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, formed in 2020. Their music brings melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies and aggressive dynamics to one of the most northerly cities in the British Isles.
The Mensis Ritual is a death metal/deathcore band from England, formed in 2019. Their name references the nightmarish ritual from the video game Bloodborne, and their music delivers similarly intense and brutal extremity.
The Modern Age Slavery is a death metal and deathcore band from Reggio Emilia, Italy, formed in 2008. They deliver punishing, politically charged extreme metal combining death metal brutality with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
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