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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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California's Mechanical Butcher arrived in 2025 with a brutal slam death metal approach that marries guttural extremity with the mechanized precision the name implies. A brand-new act in a crowded space, they waste no time on ceremony — this is slam as a blunt instrument, heavier than function.
A deathcore act from Marseille, Mechanical Decay has been delivering breakdown-heavy extremity since 2009. The band brings the Mediterranean city's intensity to a genre more typically associated with the American underground.
Mechanical God Creation is a technical/melodic death metal (early); technical death metal (later) band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2010. They deliver powerful melodic death metal with harmonic sweep and emotive songwriting.
Mechanical Man is a progressive metal/rock band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2015. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Mechanical Poet is a symphonic progressive metal (early); alternative rock (later) band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2003. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Mechanical Skin is a melodic groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2023. They blend groove metal's rhythmic punch with melodic hooks and heavy production.
Mechanima is a death metal and deathcore act from Frosinone in Lazio, active since 2016. The band delivers mechanistic, precision-driven extremity from the southern Lazio underground.
Mechanix is a heavy/thrash metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2005. Their two decades of output reflect a deep commitment to the aggressive, precision-driven thrash metal tradition that Franconia's underground has cultivated.
A thrash metal outfit from the capital whose self-titled debut was released in 2008 through Thrash Massacre Records as a limited run of 500 copies. Their sound draws on the classic Brazilian and North American thrash traditions, delivering the kind of high-energy, riff-driven attack that the genre demands.
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