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Male Misandria is a black metal and grindcore band from Pordenone, Italy, active since 2008. They fuse raw black metal with grindcore's grinding velocity.
Maledictum is a brutal death metal and goregrind act from Bavaria, Germany, whose 2025 release "Purify In Flames" delivers three tracks of visceral, punishing extremity. Their approach combines technical brutality with the raw, grinding energy characteristic of death-grind's most aggressive practitioners.
Males Fecundos was a Brasília grindcore outfit with members drawn from other local extreme metal projects, channeling social fury and disgust with human mediocrity through blunt, fast-as-possible attacks in the tradition of Napalm Death and Agathocles. Their short run produced a debut EP before the band dissolved.
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Malignant Worm is a brutal death metal and grindcore act from Marseille, emerging in 2024 with a sound designed for maximum physical impact. The band brings extremity to France's Mediterranean coast with guttural vocals and grinding blasts.
A brutal death metal and grindcore act from Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania's cultural capital, Malpraxis has been delivering punishing compositions since 2011. The band channels medical malpractice imagery into brutal extremity.
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.
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