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Master Deceiver is a symphonic black metal project from Germany, formed in 2020 to honor the 1990s golden era of the subgenre. Their album "The Shadow Weaver" embraces the atmospheric grandeur and dark romanticism of classic symphonic black metal while deliberately breaking from contemporary mainstream trends.
Master Hunter is a black metal project from Bratislava, formed in 2025. The project delivers predatory, aggressive black metal from the Slovak capital.
A black metal project from Katowice, Poland's Silesian industrial heartland, Mastiphal has been crafting dark compositions since 2020. The project draws from the deep Silesian black metal tradition.
Masturbory is a raw black metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They fuse raw black metal's lo-fi hostility with grindcore's explosive brevity.
Masugn is a death/thrash/black metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2015. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Matar is a black metal band from Pirkanmaa, Finland, formed in 2024. They channel cold, dark black metal from the Finnish interior.
Founded in Ghent in 2021 by two mid-40s metal enthusiasts and a younger drummer, Matavitatau write and perform all their black metal exclusively in Latin, drawing lyrical content from Roman poets such as Horace, Seneca, and Lucan as well as medieval authors Egbert of Liège and Bernard of Cluny. Their 2025 debut demo Numen Nescio, released on Italian label Canti Eretici Productions, drew comparisons to Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas for its raw atmosphere and dynamic precision.
A black/doom metal project from Istanbul, Matem has been channeling the Turkish word for 'mourning' into crushing compositions since 2024. The project merges the despair of black metal with doom's glacial weight.
Mater Tenebra is a black metal project from Vicenza in the Veneto, active since 2020. The project channels the 'mother of darkness' imagery into atmospheric, ritualistic black metal.
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