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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Malvento is a band from Naples, Italy, active since 1999, having evolved from black and thrash metal into black and industrial metal. Their creative arc spans nearly three decades of dark Italian extreme metal.
Mamut is a thrash metal band from Veselí nad Moravou, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. Their sound delivers the aggressive riffing and rapid-fire intensity characteristic of thrash metal, rooted in the genre's Eastern European underground tradition.
Black Arts is a black metal act from the northern Hungarian city of Eger, active since 2014. The band crafts dark, aggressive compositions from the shadow of the famous medieval fortress.
Mandatory were a death/thrash metal band from Grünburg in Upper Austria, founded in 2002 by Manuel Rohrauer and Leo Wolfmayr initially as a cover band before evolving into original material. Over their run through 2016, they progressed from a death/thrash approach toward melodic death metal, releasing material through Emdis Music. They represent a generation of rural Upper Austrian bands that developed through the regional rehearsal-room-to-stage pipeline.
A heavy metal act from the western Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg, Black God has been delivering classic-style metal since 2011. The band channels the spirit of traditional heavy metal from the Zala countryside.
Mandragora are a black/death/thrash metal band with experimental elements from Vienna, Austria, operating at the intersection of multiple extreme subgenres. The band is catalogued in the Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active Viennese act pushing outside the boundaries of any single genre classification. Their Bandcamp presence under holasoyneto.bandcamp.com reflects the eclectic and unconventional nature of the project.
Mandroid of Krypton is a progressive thrash metal and punk band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2012, whose sci-fi-themed music has been described as 'early Voivod meets Dead Kennedys meets Mayhem.' Featuring Gabriel Farine on vocals and guitar, Sylvain Charbonnaz on guitar, Tim Robert-Charrue on bass, and Romain Graf on drums, their 2024 album 'Cosmic Sarcophagus' blends dystopian science fiction themes with radical ecological viewpoints through raw, adventurous thrash punk.
Mangled Dreams is a Voss-based act that evolved from doom metal to thrash metal and crossover, active since 2022. The band channels the dramatic Norwegian fjord landscape into aggressive, shape-shifting compositions.
Manhunt is a thrash and black metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2013. They fuse thrash aggression with black metal's cold fury from Piedmont.
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