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Manzanar is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, formed in 2025. Named after the infamous Japanese internment camp, the project channels historical trauma into dark, atmospheric compositions.
Manzer is a black/thrash metal act from the western French city of Poitiers, formed in 2025. The band delivers the dark velocity of blackened thrash from the city where Charles Martel halted the Moorish advance.
Maphorion is a black metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2018. They channel dark black metal from northern Greece.
Marak is a blackened death metal/grindcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
MarAmon is a melodic black metal (early); melodic death metal (later) band from Lindesberg, Sweden, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A raw black metal project from Seville, Maranasati draws its name from Buddhist meditation on death and channels that morbid contemplation into lo-fi, tremolo-driven compositions. Emerging in 2020, the project reflects Andalusia's growing extreme metal underground.
Mararah is a gothic, doom, symphonic metal, and depressive black metal band from France, formed in 2025. They blend multiple dark metal traditions into brooding, emotionally devastating compositions.
Marax is a black metal act from the Transylvanian city of Brașov, active since 1999. One of Romania's veteran black metal projects, the band channels the Gothic atmosphere of their Carpathian mountain setting into dark, atmospheric compositions.
A black metal project from Padua, Marbas has been crafting dark compositions named after the Goetic demon since 2021. The project channels demonological themes into atmospheric black metal from the Veneto.
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