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A death metal act from Nacka near Stockholm, Medevil has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2016. The band channels the medieval evil of their name into dark, old-school death metal.
Medicated is a melodic death and thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2010. They fuse melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with thrash metal's relentless velocity.
Mediterranean is a thrash/death metal band from Vyškov, Czech Republic, formed in 2013. Their sound combines the speed and precision of thrash metal with the brutality of death metal, delivering an aggressive hybrid from the Moravian underground.
Medusian is a symphonic death metal act from Gothenburg, formed in 2025. The band channels the petrifying mythology of Medusa into grandiose, orchestral death metal from Sweden's metal capital.
Meet the Maker is a deathcore act from Athens, active since 2018. The band delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural aggression from the Greek capital's increasingly diverse extreme music scene.
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.
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