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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Material Vibe is a heavy, power, and thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2016. They blend multiple metal styles into a versatile, aggressive sound.
Mathan are an epic doom metal band from Vienna, Austria, playing in the traditional doom mold with a focus on slow, heavy riffing and epic song structures. The band has been a fixture of the Viennese doom scene, performing at the Austrian Doom Metal Festival 'Doom over Vienna' alongside other regional and international acts. They remain unsigned and independent, releasing music through their Bandcamp page.
Mathians is a sludge/doom metal band from Novara, Italy, formed in 2020. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Mathrem is a Death Metal band from Ambato, Tungurahua, Ecuador. Their 2019 release "Profecias y Ruinas" established them as an independent act working within the Ecuadorian underground extreme metal scene. The band operates without label support, self-releasing their material on Bandcamp.
Mathrus is a experimental death/thrash/black metal band from Ryazan, Russia, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Mathusalem is a band from Paris, France, formed in 2022, having evolved from stoner and doom metal into synthwave. Their stylistic transformation reflects an adventurous creative spirit unbound by genre conventions.
Named after Southeast Asian folklore's restless spirits, Chicago's Matianak channels that dread into cold, menacing black metal. Their work since 2016 carries the dense urban edge of the Midwest filtered through an icy, unrelenting aesthetic.
Matote is a stoner, doom, and post-metal band from Badalona, Spain, formed in 2018. They merge stoner metal's fuzzy heaviness with doom's crushing weight and post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Matraque is a sludge, death, and doom metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2013 that grinds through low-tuned, punishing heaviness. Their approach layers crushing sludge grooves with death-doom weight, carving out a suffocating sonic space within the Belarusian underground.
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