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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Melangia is a doom and death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel crushing doom-death through oppressive heaviness and atmospheric desolation.
Melankoli is a atmospheric black metal/ambient band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Melatonin is a symphonic gothic/progressive metal band from Chur, Switzerland, formed in 2017. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Melcorn is a death metal act from the northern Finnish town of Iisalmi, active since 2019. The band brings crushing extremity to the Savo region.
Melding Plague is an industrial black metal band from Finland, formed in 2016. They merge industrial music's mechanical coldness with black metal's atmospheric fury.
Melech is a death metal act from the small Småland town of Alsterbro, active since 2017. Named after the Hebrew word for 'king,' the band delivers commanding death metal from the Swedish countryside.
Melehan is a progressive death metal band from England, formed in 2024. They push death metal into progressive territory with technical ambition.
Melem is a death and doom metal band from Bourg-en-Bresse, France, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Melencolia is a gothic/symphonic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2025. They layer orchestral grandeur over heavy metal foundations.
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