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Master Goat play brutal, no-frills death metal out of Campo Grande, trafficking in openly blasphemous imagery as reflected in track titles like Golgota, Cruci-Fiction, and Tormento Infernal. Their approach leans on churning riffs and guttural vocals, drawing from old-school death metal traditions while keeping their sound stripped to the bone.
Master Hunter is a black metal project from Bratislava, formed in 2025. The project delivers predatory, aggressive black metal from the Slovak capital.
Mastercastle is a female-fronted neoclassical heavy metal band from Genoa, Italy, featuring vocalist Giorgia Gueglio and guitarist Pier Gonella. Their seventh album 'Lighthouse Pathetic' (2022) delivers eleven tracks of melodic, technically proficient heavy metal blending power with neoclassical composition.
MasterForce is a power and folk metal band from Torviscosa, Italy, formed in 2017. They blend power metal's anthemic energy with folk metal traditions from the Friuli region.
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.
Mastermind Unlimited are a heavy metal band from Nova Iguaçu who debuted with the EP Will There Be Peace? in 2021, stepping into the deep tradition of heavy metal coming out of the Rio de Janeiro satellite cities. The project sits firmly in classic heavy metal territory, prioritizing melody and traditional song structures over extremity.
Masteroid was a stoner doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2008, who switched their vocals from English to Finnish in 2011. Their catalog from 2009's demo through the 2013 MMXIII album channels crushing doom-sludge with stoner metal grooves.
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