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Marbas Valfoerd is a Buenos Aires black metal project that released its debut full-length Primus Omen Op.1 on February 22, 2021. The project also collaborates with fellow Argentine musician Blatt Siro under the name Argiaren, which issued the instrumental release Fragmento 1 in April 2022.
Marcation is a blackened thrash metal band from Erfurt, Germany, whose 2023 debut EP "Madness" and single "Abdul Alhazred" draw from cosmic horror literature to fuel their uncompromising extreme metal assault. The Thuringia-based act blends thrash's velocity with blackened intensity and death metal weight.
Marchosias is an experimental black metal project from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Their 2012 album 'Above the Throne of God' delivers five tracks of atmospheric, conceptually driven black metal centered around religious and mythological imagery, exploring the genre's experimental edges from the Transylvanian underground.
Marcia Funebre is a black metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2019. Their Italian name meaning "funeral march" sets the tone for their dark, ritualistic black metal.
A black metal project from Łódź, Mardom has been crafting dark compositions since 2020. The project channels the industrial city's underground intensity into atmospheric black metal.
A black metal project from Norway, Mardraum — meaning 'nightmare' — has been crafting dark, unsettling compositions since 2007. The project channels nocturnal terror into atmospheric black metal.
Mardröm is a black/doom metal and drone project from Stolzenau, Germany, formed in 2024. Their sound occupies the suffocating intersection of black metal's frigid atmosphere, doom's crushing weight, and drone's hypnotic repetition.
Mardrøm is an atmospheric post-black metal band from Halle (Saale), Germany, formed in 2023, whose 2026 debut "Nebelwanderer" combines fast melodic guitars with calm, doom-laden passages. Their DIY approach to both recording and release reflects the independent spirit of the eastern German underground.
Marduk is one of the most notorious and prolific black metal bands in history, forged in Norrköping in 1990 and named after the Babylonian deity. With over a dozen studio albums of unrelenting, war-themed black metal and a reputation as one of the genre's most ferocious live acts, they remain a cornerstone of the Swedish black metal scene.
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