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Metator is a brutal death metal band from Ripollet, Spain, formed in 2019. They unleash merciless brutal death metal from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Metatron is a melodic death and thrash metal band from Ilford, England, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with thrash's velocity.
Burial94 is an atmospheric black metal project from Athens with roots stretching back to 1994, making it one of the veterans of the Greek black metal underground. The project crafts expansive, melancholic compositions that draw from the rich legacy of Hellenic black metal.
A death/thrash metal band formed in 1988 in Dampremy, Hainaut, Belgium, featuring a multi-piece lineup including vocalist Serge Natalizio and guitarist Dan Vandeplas. They recorded the demo 'Vision of Terror' in 1989, representing Wallonia's early extreme metal underground before the band's dissolution in the early 1990s.
Methadone is a progressive death metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, active since 2012. Their sound combines the brutality of death metal with progressive compositional ambition, creating technically demanding extreme music.
Ohio's Methamphetamines are a brand new entry in the slam and brutal death metal underground, formed in 2024 with the express purpose of delivering the genre's most extreme elements without compromise. Their name stakes out an unambiguous corner of the underground — one where guttural vocals, down-tuned chug, and percussive slam breakdowns are the entire point. Still in their earliest days, they represent a new generation of American bands keeping brutal death's most visceral traditions alive.
Methes is a death metal act from Istanbul, active since 2020. The band delivers aggressive extremity from Turkey's sprawling metropolis.
Methos is a black and death metal band from Le Breuil, France, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
California's Meticulous Butchery push brutal death metal into genuinely experimental territory, a combination that their Metal-Archives tag — Experimental Brutal Death Metal — only begins to describe. Formed in 2021, they are part of a growing faction of American death metal acts that refuse to let the genre calcify, bending its structures and textures toward unexpected places while keeping the fundamental brutality intact. Their name is both descriptive and a kind of mission statement: precision applied to carnage.
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