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Formed in Tuzla in late 1993, Mefistofeles are one of the oldest active death metal bands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, having released the demo Ceremony Is About to Begin in 1995 and the full-length Daemon Sign in 1997. After going dormant around 2000, the original members reconvened in 2012 and released a self-titled album in 2019, extending a career spanning more than three decades.
A black/death metal act from Bergamo in Lombardy, Mefitic has been delivering cavernous extremity since 2018. The band's name, evoking noxious, poisonous fumes, matches their suffocating sonic approach.
Megalaw is a death/thrash metal band from Långås, Sweden, formed in 2016. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Megalith is a death/thrash metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2020. Their sound combines the brutality of death metal with thrash's aggressive precision, emerging from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital's underground.
Formed in Taquara in 1993, Megalon built their sound around the savage intersection of death and thrash metal, channeling science fiction themes through a battery of demos — "Hands of God" (1998) and "Gattaca" (2000) — that drew coverage in national outlets like Rock Brigade magazine. The band was also a driving organizational force behind the local Thrash Attack festival and is documented in the regional rock history documentary "As Pedras do Rio Ligeiro."
Megaptere is a progressive death metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2012. They push death metal into progressive territory with ambitious, technically demanding compositions.
Megazetor is a progressive and technical death metal band from Göd, Hungary, active since 2004. With over two decades of activity, they deliver technically demanding death metal.
Megazostrodon is a death/doom metal band from Cologne, Germany, named after one of Earth's earliest mammalian ancestors. Their 2020 self-titled EP delivers two tracks of dense, crushing doom-death with massive, hovering riffs that draw from cosmic and atmospheric doom traditions.
Megelnyk is an old-school death metal band from Písek, Czech Republic, whose 2022 debut "Proklaté příběhy z Píseckých hor" weaves dark folklore and local mythology into five tracks of crushing metal. Their Czech-language lyrics draw from the supernatural legends and tragic history of the Písek mountain region.
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