Mithras There are at least two bands known to use this name. 1) An experimental technical death metal band from Warwickshire, United Kingdom. (1998-Present) 2) A traditional English folk band from Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. (1974-1996) 1) Mithras, the experimental technicaldeath metal band: Open your eyes... Awaken your senses... Gaze carefully upon a bleak dimension of blastbeats, savage frequencies and shattering vocal expulsions. Enter the domain of Mithras, one of the UK's most uncompromising and extreme bands to date.