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Macabro is a speed metal/punk band from São Paulo, Brazil, featuring Ruan Pablo on vocals, Gui Disanti on guitar, Naum Prado on bass, and Uriel Franco on drums. The band channels working-class protest energy alongside themes of Satanism and anarchy, and released the album "Mensageiros do Caos" (Messengers of Chaos) in December 2023.
Machine Men formed in Suolahti, Finland in 1998, originating as an Iron Maiden cover band before developing their own melodic heavy metal identity. The band released three full-length albums—Scars & Wounds (2003), Elegies (2005), and Circus of Fools (2007)—with the single 'Falling' from Elegies charting at number five on the Finnish charts. The band dissolved in February 2011 following declining interest among members, leaving behind a compact catalog that demonstrated Finland's capacity for traditional NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal beyond its better-known power metal exports.
Machine Messiah is a band from Florence, Italy, active since 2004, having evolved from heavy and power metal into hard rock. Their creative journey spans two decades of musical evolution.
Machocabrio is a stoner and hard rock band from Chillán, Chile who debuted with their album Altibajos in July 2015. The nine-track record blends stoner grooves, rock and roll energy, and Spanish-language songwriting in a style rooted in the heavy rock tradition.
Maciej Podsiadło is a heavy metal/hard rock (early); heavy/power metal (later) band from Szczecin, Poland, formed in 2014. They deliver soaring power metal driven by melodic hooks and anthemic performances.
Mad Butcher is a heavy/speed metal band from Essen, Germany, whose 2023 single "Flesh & Blood" delivers classic heavy metal aggression with vivid butchery imagery. The quartet's straightforward, blade-sharp approach to traditional metal channels the genre's Teutonic roots.
Mad Dog is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, led by guitarist Martín Knye — a veteran of Argentine metal who previously fronted LZ2 (1986–1989) and recorded the country's first neoclassical metal album, El fuego sagrado (1989), before stints in Kamikaze, Magiar, and KZ4. The band features vocalist Javier "Oso" Muñiz, drummer Adrián Micheli, and bassist Diego Magnacca, and released a three-track EP in 2016 ("Dios Del Asfalto," "Huestes," "Mad Dog") followed by the ten-song debut full-length Hell Raising Breed in April 2020. Knye has cited Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and Black Label Society as primary influences, describing the band's sound as "pure, hard, and brutal rock."
Mad Muppets is a heavy and thrash metal band from Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, formed in 2025 that brings a fresh take on classic thrash and heavy metal aesthetics. As a newly formed act, they represent the latest wave of Swiss thrash revivalism.
Mad Road is a progressive heavy and thrash metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2014. They combine progressive metal's technical ambition with the raw energy of heavy and thrash metal.
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