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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Manaja is a sludge and stoner metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2023. They channel crushing sludge and stoner metal from Finland's industrial heartland.
Mang Ont is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Tartu, Estonia, formed in 2012, blending heavy, slow riffs with psychedelic drone and noise. Their Estonian-language releases including Külmavärinad and Sügavkülmunud tuum channel crushing sonic weight through modular synth, bass, and guitar.
Los Angeles' Mange operate at a grim crossroads of doom, sludge, and grindcore — a combination that sounds exactly as ugly and confrontational as it should. Since 2015 the band has weaponized tempo contrast, lurching between suffocating crawls and explosive blasts.
Mantar is a two-piece sludge/black metal juggernaut from Bremen, Germany, achieving massive heaviness with only drums and guitar across a prolific discography from "Death By Burning" (2014) through "Post Apocalyptic Depression" (2025). Their sound combines flogging beats, blackened melodies, and doom mayhem, drawing from Melvins, Motörhead, and Darkthrone without a bass guitar in sight.
Marasme is an experimental sludge metal band from Mallorca, Spain, active since 2008, delivering darkness, rage, and hopelessness across seven releases. Their genre-defying sound is too blast-beat heavy for post-metal, too melodic for sludge, and too primitive for post-black, culminating in 2025's Fel dedicated to a fallen bandmate.
Marazm is a sludge/groove metal act from Olsztyn in Warmia-Masuria, active since 2019. The band channels the stagnation suggested by their name into crushing, slow-moving heaviness.
Mares of Diomedes is a doom and sludge metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. Named after the man-eating horses of Greek mythology, they deliver crushing doom-sludge.
Marod is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Leipzig, Germany, whose motto "Marod ist unsere Freiheit. Marod oder tot" signals their uncompromising approach. Their discography of 7-inches, EPs, and the LP "Kulik" delivers crushing post-metal heaviness with a punk-rooted DIY ethos.
Blood Fetish is a goregrind project from the university city of Szeged, formed in 2022. The project delivers short, grotesque bursts of extreme music rooted in the most visceral traditions of grindcore.
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