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Martvl Nighty Ravenheart is a death/black/thrash metal band from Eiterfeld, Germany, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Martyr Defiled was a deathcore act from Lincoln, active since 2009 and one of the UK's most prominent bands in the genre. The band delivered ferocious, breakdown-heavy extremity that helped define the British deathcore sound alongside acts like Ingested.
Blasphemous Black Metal out of Texas.
Martyrdoom is a death/doom metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2017. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Ruthless Death Metal from Austin.
Martyrion is a melodic death metal band from Cologne, Germany, founded in 2006, whose music is set in a dystopian 2153 scenario of civilizational collapse. Their releases "Our Dystopia" and "Gaia Uprising" blend catchy melodies, powerful solos, and atmospheric storytelling into a conceptually ambitious take on melodic death metal.
Maruta formed in Miami, Florida in 2005, blurring the boundaries between grindcore and technical death metal through a relentlessly dense compositional approach. The band released In Narcosis (2008) and Forward Into Regression (2011) on Willowtip Records to strong critical reception, with the latter scoring a nine out of ten from Decibel magazine, before a brief dissolution and reformation led to their third album Remain Dystopian (2015) on Relapse Records. Their precision within extreme speed and their refusal to simplify the technical elements of their writing set them apart within the Florida grindcore underground.
Marvinz Troma is a blackened death metal project from Rennes, emerging in 2023 with a name that nods to the B-movie horror studio Troma Entertainment. The project channels that same low-budget, gore-soaked aesthetic into extreme metal.
A death metal act from the southeastern Polish town of Jarosław, Masachist has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2015. The band channels Subcarpathian intensity into brutal death metal.
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