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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Maegi is a progressive power metal act from the Turkish capital Ankara, active since 2013. Named after the Zoroastrian priestly caste, the band channels Eastern mysticism into technically ambitious metal.
Named for the treacherous elf of Tolkien's mythology, Grand Rapids-based Maeglin deal in pure, cold black metal — raw and unadorned. A project born in 2020, they channel the genre's second-wave austerity with genuine atmospheric weight.
Maegor is a black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2024. They channel dark black metal from the Scottish underground.
Mael is a death/black metal band from Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Mael Mórdha is a folk and doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2016. They weave Irish folk traditions into crushing doom metal compositions.
Pennsylvania's Maelstrom conjure black metal that lives up to their name — dissonant, churning, and relentlessly unforgiving. Since 2018 the project has pursued a dark, uncompromising approach rooted deep in the genre's extremes.
Maelstrom Aeterna is a melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore band from South England, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic power and metalcore's dynamics.
Maelström is a progressive gothic metal band originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 1994 and one of the longer-running acts in the country's gothic metal underground. The band released a self-titled debut album in 2001 and a second full-length, "Decline of the West", in 2006 through Force Majeure Records, which also issued a special double-CD edition bundling both releases. Guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist Alexandre Cegalla has been a central figure in the band throughout its existence.
Maeotis is a pagan metal band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2014. They forge pagan metal inspired by ancient steppe traditions from eastern Hungary.
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