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Evidence (2023)
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Michael Gapys is a Polish heavy metal project from the Pomeranian town of Police, active since 2021. The project delivers classic-style metal under the artist's own name.
Michael Hanna is a progressive metal and shred artist from Northern Ireland, active since 2021. He crafts technically demanding progressive metal with virtuoso guitar work.
Michael Khill is a grindcore project from Modena, formed in 2023. The project delivers rapid-fire blasts of extreme noise from the heart of Emilia-Romagna.
New York's Michael Knight occupies the niche where traditional heavy metal meets neoclassical shred, bringing a guitarist's technical vocabulary to songs that still retain the hooks and drive of classic metal. The project draws a clear line from the '80s virtuoso tradition into the present, favoring precision and melodic flair over brute force.
Portland, Oregon's Michael R. Stevenson has been releasing progressive and neoclassical metal since 2014, weaving together shred-oriented guitar work with the compositional ambition of progressive rock. His output blurs genre lines freely, touching rock, metal, and classical idioms in a way that reflects the creative eclecticism of the Pacific Northwest scene.
Michel Anoia is an avant-garde, technical death metal, and mathcore project from Lyon, France, active since 2013. They push extreme metal into cerebral, mathematically complex territory.
Michel Garrido is a Santiago-based musician best known as the longtime lead guitarist of Chilean extreme metal band Necrodead. His solo work blends rock, post-metal, and folk influences, with releases including his debut album Bahual (2009) and the Australis Records-distributed Güiña (2021), the latter recorded across studios in Chile and Argentina during the country's social unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boston's Mick Karnage arrived in 2024 with a speed metal attack that looks squarely to the mid-'80s for inspiration — fast tempos, razor-sharp riffing, and an unabashed love of aggressive traditional metal. As a new entry in Boston's metal underground, they bring a retro-focused urgency that makes clear they are uninterested in reinventing anything, only in doing it harder and faster.
Mico de Noche have been Seattle's slow-burning stoner metal institution since 2002, crafting thick, fuzz-drenched grooves that owe as much to the Pacific Northwest's heavy psych tradition as to any riff-worshipping desert scene. Their two-plus decades of active existence speak to a staying power rooted in the hypnotic, heads-down weight of their sound.
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