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Mastino is a thrash/groove metal band from Linköping, Sweden, formed in 2010. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Maszyna is a hard rock, groove metal, and metalcore act from the southeastern Polish town of Kraśnik, active since 2013. The band's Polish name, meaning 'machine,' reflects their mechanical, driving approach.
Matanuska is a heavy and groove metal act from the Scottish city of Aberdeen, delivering thick, riff-heavy compositions since 2014. The band brings a muscular groove metal approach to Scotland's granite city.
Mate Cosido was a groove metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose lineup featured vocalist Lito Pared, guitarists Alejandro Venneri and Román Montesi, bassist Gerardo Lucero, and drummer Javier Dorado, who had previously played with Argentine metal legends A.N.I.M.A.L. The band released their self-titled album through EMI in 1996, recorded in June and July of that year and produced alongside Augusto Milharcic. The 12-track record remains their only known release before the band split up.
Mawiza is a Mapuche metal band from Wallmapu, Chile, formed in 2021 as the successor to Nunca Seremos Dichosos—a project that won the Pulsar Award (Chilean Grammy) for Best Metal Artist in 2020 for the album Kollong (2019). Performing in Mapuzungun, their ancestral language, and integrating traditional Mapuche instruments and rhythms into groove metal and metalcore, Mawiza have drawn international attention from acts including Slipknot and Gojira, the latter's Joe Duplantier appearing on their debut album ÜL (2025) on Season of Mist. Their work is as much a statement of Indigenous cultural preservation as it is a metal record.
Brutal Masturbation is a death metal act from the western Hungarian border town of Mosonmagyaróvár, active since 2017. The deliberately provocative name matches their commitment to uncompromising, no-frills death metal extremity.
A groove metal act from the Karelian city of Petrozavodsk, Meatall has been delivering rhythmically charged compositions since 2016. The band brings heavy grooves to the shores of Lake Onega.
Mechanical Skin is a melodic groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2023. They blend groove metal's rhythmic punch with melodic hooks and heavy production.
Megalomania is a thrash/groove metal band from Skåne, Sweden, formed in 2016. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
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