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Macabre Idolatry is a death metal act from Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna, formed in 2022. The band delivers crushing extremity steeped in the macabre, idolatrous imagery their name evokes.
Macabre Manifesto is a funeral doom and death metal band from Spain, formed in 2025. They craft crushing, glacially paced funeral doom layered with death metal brutality.
Macaria is a folk and death metal band from Lecce, Italy, formed in 2016. They weave southern Italian folk elements into death metal from the Pugliese heel.
Maceration is a Danish death metal band from Esbjerg, originally active in the early 1990s as pioneers of the Danish death metal scene before reuniting 30 years later. Their 2025 album Serpent Devourment continues their legacy of old-school brutality alongside melody, featuring members of Invocator, Exmortem, and Corpus Mortale.
A death metal and grindcore act from Cagliari in Sardinia, Machescazo has been grinding out visceral extremity since 2009. The band channels the island's fierce independent spirit into punishing compositions.
Machetazo was a legendary Spanish death metal and grindcore act from A Coruña in Galicia, one of the most important bands in the history of Spanish extreme music. The band delivered visceral, grinding extremity throughout their career, earning a devoted international following.
Machiavellian is a death metal and deathcore band from Skelmersdale, England, formed in 2019, incorporating sludge metal influences. They deliver crushing extreme metal built on devastating heaviness.
Machine Kill is a death metal act from the Cornish town of Redruth, delivering aggressive extremity from one of England's most remote corners. Active since 2014, the band channels the industrial mining heritage of Cornwall into crushing riffs.
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