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A death-grind project driven largely by Billy Grind, who handles all instruments and vocals, Megalodon released a self-titled EP in 2018 followed by "Sozinho Contra Todos" in 2022. The project pulls from industrial and electro-grindcore textures while retaining the blasting, short-format brutality expected from the genre.
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.
Megiddo is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Bremerhaven, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the biblical site of Armageddon, their sound merges melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication with thrash's aggressive attack.
Megilloth is a death/thrash metal band from Nalchik, Russia, formed in 2024. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A power/death metal act from the northern Swedish town of Lycksele, Megin has been delivering epic compositions since 2015. The band brings melodic extremity to one of Sweden's most remote metal outposts.
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