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Los Angeles' Mange operate at a grim crossroads of doom, sludge, and grindcore — a combination that sounds exactly as ugly and confrontational as it should. Since 2015 the band has weaponized tempo contrast, lurching between suffocating crawls and explosive blasts.
Manstractor is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from the Mülheim an der Ruhr/Oberhausen area of Germany, active since 2013. Their sound combines the visceral extremity of brutal death metal with grindcore's relentless velocity, forged in the industrial heartland of the Ruhrgebiet.
A one-person DIY project blending thrash, hardcore, and grindcore with a deliberately absurdist sensibility, Marafo de Exú debuted in 2016 with the 16-track album "Diabólico Alcoólico," a chaotic slab of short, fast songs delivered with raw, lo-fi ferocity. The project also released a live recording from Destroy Music Now Fest 3, capturing the same unfiltered intensity in a live setting.
Marak is a blackened death metal/grindcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Named after a viral hemorrhagic fever, Los Angeles' Marburg bring clinical precision to their hybrid of technical death metal and grindcore. Formed in 2016, the band strips both genres down to their most potent elements — speed, density, and surgical brutality.
Martin and the Vampires is a brutal death metal and grindcore act from Sundbyberg in the Stockholm metropolitan area, active since 2018. The band channels B-movie horror themes into visceral, blast-driven extremity.
Martyrizer played short, abrasive grindcore in the tradition of the Belo Horizonte extreme underground, releasing the six-track "Sick Music To An Extreme World" in April 2014. They also appeared on the compilation "Crushed Vol. II" and performed live that same year at the Metal Punk Overkill III festival before eventually disbanding.
Maruta formed in Miami, Florida in 2005, blurring the boundaries between grindcore and technical death metal through a relentlessly dense compositional approach. The band released In Narcosis (2008) and Forward Into Regression (2011) on Willowtip Records to strong critical reception, with the latter scoring a nine out of ten from Decibel magazine, before a brief dissolution and reformation led to their third album Remain Dystopian (2015) on Relapse Records. Their precision within extreme speed and their refusal to simplify the technical elements of their writing set them apart within the Florida grindcore underground.
Marutaud was a metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, now defunct. The group cycled through multiple vocalists and bassists across their tenure, leaving behind a self-titled album and a demo before disbanding with the epitaph 'Once from Estonia. No more, no longer.'
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