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Machukha is a Berlin-based band whose name means "stepmother" in Ukrainian, blending post-black metal, dark hardcore, and punk with a mission to express shared experiences of retaining humanity in a harsh world. Their 2024 album "Mochari" and surrounding singles feature a multinational lineup including Ukrainian vocalist Natalya and saxophonist/bassist Mykola.
Maciej Podsiadło is a heavy metal/hard rock (early); heavy/power metal (later) band from Szczecin, Poland, formed in 2014. They deliver soaring power metal driven by melodic hooks and anthemic performances.
Richmond's Mack Thompson operates at the intersection of neoclassical technique and progressive metal ambition, threading intricate shred passages through experimental song structures. The project has evolved steadily since 2018 from experimental rock foundations into something bracingly difficult to categorize.
Mackage is a slam and brutal death metal band from Shropshire, England, formed in 2016. They unleash crushing slam death metal built on guttural brutality.
Macrohard are a death/thrash metal band from Wels in Upper Austria, operating in the underground of the Austrian extreme metal scene. The band released music through their Bandcamp page and draw on the aggressive, riff-driven traditions of early European death and thrash metal. They remain one of the lesser-documented but active acts in the regional scene.
Mactätus was a black metal band from Skien in Telemark, operating in the Norwegian underground since the late 1990s. The band contributed to the second wave of Norwegian black metal with their atmospheric, keyboard-enhanced compositions.
Macuarro is a post-black metal project from Mexico City, Mexico. The band released their debut album "Un lugar frio, chiquito y culero" in October 2019, a seven-track lo-fi black metal recording described by the band as spontaneous and composed largely from first takes. They have remained active as an independent act.
A stoner/doom metal act from the northern Portuguese city of Braga, Macumba has been delivering heavy, ritualistic grooves since 2015. Named after the Afro-Brazilian spiritual practice, the band channels syncretic mysticism into crushing doom.
Macáes is a one-man post-black metal and shoegaze project by Fernando, based in Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz province — one of the southernmost metal acts in Argentina. The project released the split Pureza y Caos alongside Chilean atmospheric act Lapageria Rosea in January 2013, contributing three tracks composed in July 2012: "Símbolo de Mutación," "Decadence," and "Condenados A Nuestra Iniquidad." The project blends black metal intensity with shoegaze texture in an ambient, atmospheric style.
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