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M26 is an atmospheric doom/death metal band from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band incorporates female vocals into their heavy, melancholic sound, and released their debut album "Misantropia" in February 2021 through Bandcamp.
M:D:A is a melodic death/thrash metal band from the Bünde/Bielefeld area of Germany, formed in 2020. Their sound merges the harmonic sophistication of melodic death metal with the aggressive urgency of thrash, emerging from the North Rhine-Westphalia underground.
Maahlas is a progressive melodic death/black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2014. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Maat is a death metal band from Bernau, Germany, formed in 2017. Named after the Egyptian goddess of truth and justice, their sound delivers uncompromising death metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions.
Mabus is a death metal act from Düsseldorf, Germany, formed in 2020. Their sound draws from the brutality and intensity of death metal, adding to Düsseldorf's growing presence in the German extreme metal underground.
Mabuse is a death metal act split between Oslo and Trondheim, active since 2012. The band delivers aggressive extremity from two of Norway's major metal hubs.
Out of South Jersey since 1987, Macabre are death metal veterans who've spent decades refining a punishing, unrelenting approach to extreme heaviness. Their long tenure speaks to a genuine commitment to the craft that few bands from that era still maintain.
Macabre Decay is a death metal act from the northern Swedish town of Söderhamn, active since 2018. The band channels the decomposition imagery of their name into old-school, Swedish-style death metal.
Macabre Demise is a brutal death metal band from Landshut, Germany, with a prolific discography spanning from their 2009 debut "Dead Eyes" through 2023's "Grave(y)art Gallery." Their sustained output of over a dozen releases across deathgrind and brutal death metal territory marks them as one of Bavaria's most productive extreme metal acts.
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