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Mad Act is a progressive stoner and sludge metal band from Amiens, France, formed in 2019. They blend progressive ambition with stoner-sludge metal's crushing, groove-laden heaviness.
Mad Billy is a solo grindcore project from Catanduva, São Paulo state, Brazil, launched in 2023 by the multi-instrumentalist known as Billy Grind. The project's debut release, the nine-track EP A Raw Tale Mad Max (2023), was conceived as a tribute to George Miller's Mad Max universe, with Billy Grind handling all instruments, vocals, mixing, and mastering himself.
Mad Blaze is a depressive black metal band from France, formed in 2025. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Mad Brains is a death and groove metal band from Agrigento, Italy, formed in 2022, incorporating industrial elements. They blend death-groove metal with mechanical industrial textures from Sicily.
Mad Butcher is a heavy/speed metal band from Essen, Germany, whose 2023 single "Flesh & Blood" delivers classic heavy metal aggression with vivid butchery imagery. The quartet's straightforward, blade-sharp approach to traditional metal channels the genre's Teutonic roots.
Mad Caddies are a Solvang, California ska punk band whose music stretches the form with reggae, dixieland jazz, Latin rhythms, punk rock, pop hooks, and occasional sea-shanty eccentricity. Formed in 1995, the group became one of Fat Wreck Chords' most distinctive ska-adjacent acts, releasing albums such as Quality Soft Core, Duck and Cover, Rock the Plank, Just One More, Keep It Going, Dirty Rice, Punk Rocksteady, and later work. Mad Caddies fit accepted scope through ska punk, punk rock, and pop punk, even when their arrangements wander into styles far outside standard punk vocabulary. Chuck Robertson's vocals give the songs a relaxed but expressive center, while horns, upstroke guitar, and quick rhythm changes make the music feel constantly in motion. The band can be rowdy, romantic, funny, melancholy, and musically playful, sometimes within the same album. Their importance lies in refusing to reduce ska punk to a single tempo or joke. Mad Caddies treat it as a flexible platform for touring-band craft, pulling from barroom swing, Caribbean rhythm, and California punk without losing their own personality. Their best songs feel loose on the surface but carefully arranged underneath.
Mad Chicken are a stoner/grunge metal quintet from Arcos, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2013, featuring Filipe Xavier on vocals, André Salviano on bass, Pedro Paim on drums, and Daniel Mudo and Carlos Macarrão on guitars. The band released their debut studio album Limestoner in 2017 and followed it with the EP Poultrygeist in September 2022 via Abraxas and Limestone Records, recorded entirely in an analog fashion in three days at ForestLab Studio in Paty do Alferes.
A groove metal act from the Far Eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border, Mad Cow Disease has been delivering rhythmically charged compositions since 2017. The band brings groove metal to one of Russia's most remote metal outposts.
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