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A death metal and grindcore act from the Lorraine cities of Nancy and Épinal, Massive Charge has been delivering relentless extremity since 2007. The band pairs death metal's crushing weight with grindcore's brevity and velocity.
Massive Retaliation is a death metal/grindcore band from Passau, Germany, active since 2015. Their sound combines death metal's crushing weight with grindcore's relentless velocity, forged in the southeastern Bavarian border town at the confluence of three rivers.
Mastic Scum are one of Austria's most internationally recognized extreme metal bands, a brutal death metal and grindcore outfit from Salzburg founded in 1992 by Harry Gandler, Man Gandler, and Linga Moser. Their sound is defined by machine-precise rhythms, dissonant riffing, and a vocal onslaught spanning guttural lows to harsh highs, and they have released six studio albums including 'ICON' on MDD Records in 2022. A seventh album is currently in production as of 2026.
Masturbory is a raw black metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They fuse raw black metal's lo-fi hostility with grindcore's explosive brevity.
Mata Borrão emerged from Belo Horizonte's extreme metal underground as a side project of members from Death Dealer and later Putrifocinctor, delivering a chaotic blend of grindcore and death metal with lyrics targeting social inequality, religious fanaticism, and political alienation. Their 2014 album 'Assim Já Dizia Augusto dos Anjos' — recorded at Studio Attack in Belo Horizonte — stands as their defining statement, with the lineup of Igor Gabriel on vocals, Leandro Alves on guitars, Vitor Malta on bass, and Thiago Pena on drums.
Columbia City, Indiana's Matanza evolved from metalcore roots into a brutalizing blend of death metal and grindcore — all velocity, grit, and aggression with zero compromise. Their trajectory mirrors a band shedding its skin in pursuit of something far more savage.
Matt Harvey is a California-based musician who founded the death metal and grindcore band Exhumed in 1990 at the age of fifteen, guiding the band through more than three decades and multiple stylistic evolutions rooted in the carnage-obsessed tradition of Carcass and Repulsion. Beyond Exhumed, Harvey co-founded Gruesome, a project explicitly designed to pay homage to Death's early albums Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy, along with additional projects including Pounder and Left to Die. His prolific involvement across multiple death metal acts has made him one of the central figures in West Coast American extreme metal.
A grindcore project from Italy, Mattatoio — meaning 'slaughterhouse' — has been delivering short, brutal compositions since 2015. The project channels the visceral imagery of its name into rapid-fire blasts of noise.
Matutano is a grindcore band from Bilbao, Spain, self-described as purveyors of 'grindcore snacks' — short, punchy blasts of aggression laced with crude humor. Since their 2011 debut, they have unleashed a prolific run of releases including the 'PA PAM!' series and 'DEMOLITION' (2018).
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