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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Mad Silence is a metalcore act from Malyn in the Zhytomyr Oblast, formed in 2025. The band delivers the paradoxical fury of their oxymoronic name from the Ukrainian countryside.
Madafaka is a thrash 'n' roll and metalcore act from Glasgow, active since 2012. The band blends the groove of thrash with metalcore's aggression and the loose energy of rock 'n' roll.
Maelstrom Aeterna is a melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore band from South England, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic power and metalcore's dynamics.
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Mahoney is an atmospheric sludge metal and metalcore band from Nakkila, Finland, formed in 2016. They blend atmospheric sludge's expansive textures with metalcore's aggressive dynamics.
Maintain is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2015. Their sound bridges the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with the breakdown-driven intensity of metalcore.
A groove metal and metalcore act from Roeselare with influences drawn from Meshuggah, Crowbar, and the Melvins, Makasrr released their debut Inner Demon to attention in the Belgian underground press. The five-piece—built around the guitar pairing of Gerald Goedhart and David Decoutere—deliver dense, polyrhythmic heaviness with a sludge-informed low end.
Make Them Die Slowly is a melodic black metal and metalcore band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2020. They blend melodic black metal with metalcore's aggressive dynamics.
A short-lived São Paulo act, Maligun worked the intersection of metalcore and traditional heavy metal during their active years between 2013 and 2019, drawing on the city's rich lineage of heavy music while incorporating the rhythmic aggression of the metalcore idiom. The band remained independent throughout their existence before eventually splitting up.
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