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Ferocious Speed / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Mastemey is a thrash/groove metal band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 2016. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Kent, Ohio's Master Bastard play hard-driving thrash metal with a blue-collar aggression that's entirely at home in a post-industrial college town. Formed in 2023, they waste no time establishing what they're about.
A thrash metal act from Empoli in the Florence metropolitan area, Master Disaster has been ripping through aggressive compositions since 2019. The band pairs the chaotic energy of their name with tight, disciplined thrash.
Masterhead are a three-piece thrash metal outfit from the Fortaleza metropolitan area whose sound draws heavily from the Bay Area tradition, with Francisco "Mustaine" Alves handling both guitar and vocals alongside Denilson Andrade and John Nascimento. They built their catalog through the 2008 demo Enemy of Time and the 2017 EP Waiting Terror, later releasing the single Metal Warrior in 2021.
Masterless is a thrash and death metal band from Surrey, England, formed in 2017. They forge aggressive extreme metal from the London commuter belt.
Since 1990, New Jersey's Mastermind has been a fixture in American progressive metal, weaving complex song structures and virtuosic musicianship into long-form compositions. Their decades-long run out of Browns Mills stands as a testament to the resilience of prog metal outside major scenes.
Masticate is a thrash metal act from the Upper Silesian city of Tychy, formed in 2022. The band delivers the kind of chewing, grinding thrash their name suggests.
Mastino is a thrash/groove metal band from Linköping, Sweden, formed in 2010. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
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