Melencoliasi is a death/thrash metal band from Tychy, Poland, formed in 2025. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.

A folk/black metal project from the Tuscan city of Pistoia, Melethor emerged in 2025 blending traditional folk elements with black metal aggression. The project channels the ancient traditions of central Italy into atmospheric, nature-inspired compositions.

Melets is a black metal project from Venice, active since 2013. The project crafts atmospheric black metal from the sinking city, channeling the aquatic decay and gothic architecture into cold, haunting compositions.

Meline is a heavy and thrash metal band from Rouen, France, formed in 2017. They combine classic heavy metal's power with thrash metal's aggressive edge.

Melinoe is a black metal project from Oberhausen, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the Greek chthonic nymph of ghosts and madness, their sound channels the atmospheric darkness and spectral intensity of black metal.

Meliorism is a progressive death metal band from Cambridge, England, formed in 2022. They craft intricate progressive death metal from the university city.

A heavy/power/speed metal act from Debrecen, Burning Sun has been delivering energetic, classic-style metal since 2022. The band channels the radiant intensity of their name into fast, melodic compositions rooted in the NWOBHM and speed metal traditions.

Melkor is a black metal band from Mainz, Germany, active since 2004. Named after Tolkien's primordial dark lord, their two decades of output mark them as a committed force in the Rhineland-Palatinate black metal underground.

Founded in Banja Luka in the spring of 2017, Melldown play melodic death metal with a contemporary edge, drawing on the melodic Swedish tradition as filtered through a Balkan sensibility. Their debut full-length Cryptomnesia and follow-up M.E.L. document the band's rapid development since their formation.