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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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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.
A black metal project from Katowice, Poland's Silesian industrial heartland, Mastiphal has been crafting dark compositions since 2020. The project draws from the deep Silesian black metal tradition.
A sludge, doom, and post-metal act from the southern Hungarian university city of Szeged, Boru has been crafting heavy, atmospheric compositions since 2018. The band merges the crushing weight of sludge with the expansive dynamics of post-metal.
Atlanta's Mastodon have charted one of metal's most ambitious creative arcs, evolving from the relentless sludge metal fury of 'Remission' through the progressive concept albums 'Leviathan' and 'Crack the Skye' into the melodic grandeur of 'Emperor of Sand.' Their four members each contribute vocals, lending a layered harmonic complexity rare in heavy music, while Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher's intertwining guitar work stands among the most distinctive in modern metal. Grammy-winning and platinum-selling, Mastodon have proven that uncompromising artistic evolution and commercial success can coexist.
Mastord is a progressive metal band from Kotka, Finland, formed in 2019. They craft intricate progressive metal compositions with technical ambition and creative depth.
Mastroyany is a death metal (early); hardcore/thrash metal (later) band from Ryžoviště, Czech Republic, formed in 2019. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Masturbation with the Bible is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Caracas, Venezuela, active since 2013. They released their debut full-length "Drowned in Holy Vaginal Fluids" in 2018 through Narcoleptica Productions, followed by the compilation track "Good Nuns Gone Dirty" and the 2025 album "Odium," recorded at Masacre Studio. Their material deals in blasphemous, anti-religious, and extreme gore imagery delivered through a relentlessly heavy slamming brutal death framework.
Masturbator is a death metal band from Franca originally active from 1987 through the mid-1990s, with a 2010 reformation bringing the band back to life. Their 1992 demo 'The Pornographic Terror' documents their early raw death metal approach, and the current lineup — built around vocalist Samuel Death Tormentor, guitarist Sidinei Slaughterman, and bassist Jason Dissector — carries forward the same uncompromising brutality.
Masturbory is a raw black metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They fuse raw black metal's lo-fi hostility with grindcore's explosive brevity.
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