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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Magnolia is a progressive metal band from Salerno, Italy, formed in 2020. They craft intricate progressive metal from the Campania coast.
Magnum Opus is a progressive metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2022. They craft intricate progressive metal from northern Greece.
Fort Worth's Magnus build technical progressive metal with a Texas sense of scale — sprawling, precise, and unafraid of complexity. Since 2010 they've pushed the boundaries of what progressive metal can sound like in the Lone Star underground.
Red Lion, Pennsylvania's Magnus have been navigating progressive metal and rock with a deliberate, craft-focused approach since 2010. Their songwriting prioritizes depth over flash, reflecting a DIY ethos native to the rural Pennsylvania scene.
A doom metal act from the remote eastern Hungarian village of Görbeháza, Bearfood has been delivering crushing heaviness since 2000. The band proves that devastating doom can emerge from even the most rural corners of the Great Hungarian Plain.
A progressive/melodic death metal act from the university city of Linköping, Maitreya has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2011. Named after the future Buddha, the band channels Eastern philosophy into complex Swedish melodeath.
Majester is a progressive and thrash metal band from Modena, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse progressive ambition with thrash metal's aggression.
Majestic Major is a progressive black metal band from Armentières, France, formed in 2025. They push black metal into progressive territory with ambitious, boundary-crossing compositions.
Majiera is a four-piece instrumental heavy rock and metal band from Erfurt, Germany, founded in 2022. Their 2025 debut EP "Odyssey" showcases seven tracks of vocal-free, guitar-driven compositions that channel their self-described identity as a "riff machine" through dynamic heavy rock arrangements.
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