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California's Mechanical Butcher arrived in 2025 with a brutal slam death metal approach that marries guttural extremity with the mechanized precision the name implies. A brand-new act in a crowded space, they waste no time on ceremony — this is slam as a blunt instrument, heavier than function.
A deathcore act from Marseille, Mechanical Decay has been delivering breakdown-heavy extremity since 2009. The band brings the Mediterranean city's intensity to a genre more typically associated with the American underground.
Mechanical God Creation is a technical/melodic death metal (early); technical death metal (later) band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2010. They deliver powerful melodic death metal with harmonic sweep and emotive songwriting.
Mechanima is a death metal and deathcore act from Frosinone in Lazio, active since 2016. The band delivers mechanistic, precision-driven extremity from the southern Lazio underground.
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A brutal deathcore act from the Essex seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, Mechromorph has been delivering crushing extremity since 2016. The band pairs mechanical precision with visceral brutality, matching the industrial overtones of their name.
Meconium is a thrash/death metal band from Glasgow, England, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Medea Rising is a melodic deathcore band from Sachsenbrunn, Germany, whose 2014 album "Abyss" features eight tracks of aggressive deathcore with guest collaborators across its lineup. Their sound blends the breakdowns and brutality of deathcore with melodic sensibility.
Medecophobic was a brutal death metal band from Munich, Germany, active from 2006 to 2016 with releases "Pandemic of Existence" (2011) and "Escalation" (2014). Their technically-oriented approach to brutal death metal delivered intense, compressed blasts of extremity across their decade-long run.
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