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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Mazy Vision is a Parisian death metal act formed in 2019, delivering aggressive compositions from the heart of France's capital. The band navigates between old-school death metal traditions and more modern, technical approaches.
McGalligog is a melodic death and thrash metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2010. They blend melodic death metal with thrash from the Irish underground.
Me0d is a death and doom metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. They blend death metal's aggression with doom's glacial weight.
Mea Culpa is a Czech band from the Humpolec/Pelhřimov area, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from death metal roots into thrash metal and crossover territory. This stylistic shift reflects a restless creative energy that bridges extreme metal's heaviest and most riff-driven subgenres.
A symphonic/melodic death metal act from the northern Swedish town of Örnsköldsvik, Meadows End has been delivering orchestral extremity since 2018. The band layers sweeping symphonic arrangements over aggressive melodeath foundations.
Mean Messiah is an industrial death/thrash metal trio from North Bohemia, Czech Republic, active since 2013 with a prolific output spanning seven releases from "Hell" through 2025's "Death Is On My Side." The band's core of Dan Friml, Lenka Čechová, and Matěj Meier blends machine-like industrial aggression with the riff-driven attack of death and thrash metal.
Measureless is a death metal act from the western Swedish town of Säffle, active since 2012. The band delivers boundless, crushing death metal from the Värmland countryside.
Chicago's Meat Crayon waste no time with subtlety — founded in 2023, they deliver brutal death metal that favors pulverizing low-end tonnage and inhuman drumming over any concession to accessibility. The name sets the tone: absurdist and violent in equal measure, rooted in the city's long tradition of extreme underground acts.
Meatgag is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Russia, formed in 2024. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
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