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Featured Album
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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Fierce Heavy Metal from Fort Worth.
Maximize Bestiality is a brutal slamming death metal duo from Hamburg, Germany, featuring vocalist Drohbert and guitarist Dr. Faust. Their releases including "Omnihilation" and "Extraterrestrial Skolexomorphic Infestation" deliver the ultra-heavy, breakdown-laden extremity that defines the slam death metal underground.
A heavy metal act from the coastal city of Volos in Thessaly, Maximum Overdrive emerged in 2024 with a name that signals pedal-to-the-floor intensity. The band delivers high-energy traditional metal from the foot of Mount Pelion.
Lakewood, New Jersey's Maximum Oversatan runs at full throttle, fusing black metal savagery with the raw punch of speed metal for something that never lets up. Since 2011, they've kept the spirit of the unholy metal hordes alive on the Jersey Shore.
Razor-sharp Black / Speed Metal out of Texas.
Maximus is a raw black metal project from an undisclosed French location, active since 2021. The project delivers uncompromising, lo-fi black metal with the misanthropic intensity that characterizes the French raw black metal underground.
New York's Maxxx have been delivering heavy metal laced with hard rock swagger since 2006, leaning into hooks and attitude in equal measure. Their sound is built for rooms, not headphones — loud, direct, and unapologetically fun.
May Day is a heavy metal band from Algeciras, Spain, formed in 2011. They channel classic heavy metal energy from the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
Maya Mountains is a psychedelic rock band from Venice, Italy, formed in 2004. Their debut 'Hash and Pornography' (2008) was released through Go Down Records, followed by 'Era' (2015), produced by Alessandro Siniscalchi — both albums rooted in extended jams, heavy riffs, and psychedelic vision.
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