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Magna Mortalis is a melodic groove/death metal band from Hanover, Germany, with releases spanning from 2013's "Diluvian" through the twelve-track "Onward" (2021) on Kernkraftritter Records. Their sound navigates darker conceptual themes across a mix of groove-driven rhythms and death metal intensity.
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Magnadur is a melodic death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2024. They carry forward the proud Finnish tradition of melodic death metal with sweeping harmonies.
Magnificat is a death metal act from the southeastern Polish town of Dębica, active since 1996. One of Poland's longer-running death metal acts, the band delivers old-school extremity with the authority of nearly three decades.
Fort Worth's Magnus build technical progressive metal with a Texas sense of scale — sprawling, precise, and unafraid of complexity. Since 2010 they've pushed the boundaries of what progressive metal can sound like in the Lone Star underground.
A melodic death metal act from the Atlantic city of Nantes, Magnyfall emerged in 2022 with a sound blending Scandinavian melodeath harmonies with French musical sensibility. The band represents the continued growth of western France's metal underground.
Athens, Georgia's Maha Pralaya draw on Hindu cosmology for their name and on extreme metal's most volatile fusion — black and death — for their sound. Since 2017 they've produced something genuinely unsettling out of the South's college-town underground.
Mahta are a death metal band from Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, Austria, operating in the underground extreme metal circuit. The band maintains a Bandcamp presence under the handle mahta.bandcamp.com and plays in the tradition of straightforward, unadorned death metal. Specific album details remain limited due to their underground status, but they contribute to Carinthia's small but persistent extreme metal scene.
Boston's Maidenhead smash death and thrash metal together with the righteous aggression of New England's storied hardcore and metal lineage. Since 2022 they've been proving that the crossover between those genres still has teeth.
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