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Metastasis is a death/thrash metal band from Quilpué, Valparaíso, Chile, formed in 2006 by Gabriel Quinteros and Eduardo Madariaga, whose name was suggested by a friend who had battled cancer as a reflection of the band's death-themed subject matter. Their discography spans the 2011 compilation From the Snow the Executioner Rises Again (Suffering Jesus Production), the 2014 full-length The Essence That Precedes Death, and the 2024 album Fatal Morphosis, recorded at Vardager Records in Quilpué.
MetaThrone is a symphonic/depressive black metal project from Germany, active since 2019. Their sound combines the orchestral grandeur of symphonic black metal with the anguished emotional intensity of depressive black metal.
Metatomb is a funeral doom metal/drone band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2025. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Metator is a brutal death metal band from Ripollet, Spain, formed in 2019. They unleash merciless brutal death metal from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Metatron is a melodic death and thrash metal band from Ilford, England, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with thrash's velocity.
A progressive/power metal act from Catania in Sicily, Metatrone has been delivering technically ambitious compositions since 2019. The band channels the angelic imagery of their Kabbalistic name into soaring, complex metal.
Houston's Metavenge have been tearing through the Texas thrash underground since 2012, distinguishing themselves with a melodic edge that sets them apart from the more blunt-force acts in the scene. Metal-Archives tags them as melodic thrash, and that precision shows in their songwriting — leads that soar over groove-locked rhythms, arrangements that breathe without losing intensity. They are a reliable fixture of the Houston metal circuit, building a catalog that rewards listeners who want thrash with craft behind it.
MetaVoid is a progressive/groove metal band from Augsburg, Germany, "tuning down to the core of the earth since 2014" with a sound compared to "Meshuggah but more cosmic." Their discography from "Parasymmetry" (2014) through "P4R45YMM37RY" (2025) delivers djent-influenced, rhythmically complex progressive death metal.
Burial94 is an atmospheric black metal project from Athens with roots stretching back to 1994, making it one of the veterans of the Greek black metal underground. The project crafts expansive, melancholic compositions that draw from the rich legacy of Hellenic black metal.
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