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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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A stoner rock and metal act from the university city of Szeged, Barbears has been delivering fuzz-heavy grooves since 2012. The band channels the languid heat of Hungary's southern plains into thick, bear-heavy riffing.
Magistarium is a symphonic power metal project from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2021. Their sound combines the soaring orchestral arrangements of symphonic metal with power metal's galloping intensity and melodic vocal lines.
Magister is a doom/death metal band from Oberursel, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Magister Templi is a heavy/doom metal act from Oslo, active since 2010. The band channels the occult grandeur of their Templar name into classic doom compositions with a 1970s heavy metal backbone.
Relentless Raw Black Metal / Punk out of Texas.
Barbed Wire is a thrash metal act from Budapest, delivering aggressive, razor-sharp compositions since 2015. The band contributes to the Hungarian capital's metal underground with a sound rooted in classic thrash traditions.
MagiTech is an epic symphonic metal band from Italy, formed in 2024. They craft grand, orchestrally enhanced metal compositions.
Magla is a black metal act from Zagreb, formed in 2021. The band, whose name means 'fog' in Croatian, crafts atmospheric black metal steeped in murky, obscured soundscapes.
Magma is a heavy metal band from Mezőtúr, Hungary, with roots stretching back to 1970. As one of Hungary's longest-active metal acts, they have delivered over five decades of heavy metal.
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