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ManiaCult (2021)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Menturas is a thrash and progressive metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2006. They blend thrash metal's aggression with progressive complexity.
A heavy metal act from Kungsbacka with roots stretching back to 1984, Mentzer is one of Sweden's most veteran traditional metal acts. Four decades of persistence make them a landmark of the Swedish heavy metal underground.
Menzoberranzan is a black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2017. Named after the dark elf city from Dungeons & Dragons, they deliver dark, subterranean black metal.
Mepheth is a thrash/death metal band from Bergamo, Italy, formed in 2010. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Mephir is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2016. Their sound channels the atmospheric darkness and ferocity of black metal from the northern German lowlands.
Mephisto Mass is a raw black metal and noise project from Italy, formed in 2023. The project merges the lo-fi aggression of raw black metal with harsh noise elements, creating an abrasive, anti-musical assault.
Mephistophelian Altar is a black and death metal band from Finland, formed in 2025. They channel infernal extremity through the darkest convergence of black and death metal.
Mephitic is a death metal act from Amsterdam, formed in 2025. The band delivers putrid, old-school death metal from the Dutch capital's enduringly prolific extreme metal underground.
A death metal act from Budapest, Mephitic Grave emerged in 2021 with a sound steeped in cavernous, old-school death metal atmosphere. The band channels the fetid imagery of their name into crushing compositions.
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