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Magor is a heavy and groove metal band from Jászberény, Hungary, formed in 2012. Named after the Hungarian mythological figure, they blend heavy and groove metal traditions.
A doom metal act from the remote eastern Hungarian village of Görbeháza, Bearfood has been delivering crushing heaviness since 2000. The band proves that devastating doom can emerge from even the most rural corners of the Great Hungarian Plain.
Magoth is a black metal band from Bonn, Germany, whose self-described "anti-terrestrial" approach spans releases like "Der Toten Gesang," "Zeitgeist: Dystopia," and "Invictus." Their dystopian-themed black metal channels an otherworldly hostility that sets them apart from the genre's traditional earthbound darkness.
Magothy is a melodic black metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Magrudergrind formed in Washington, DC in September 2002, building a relentless noise-core and grindcore attack from their early primitive demo phase through increasingly refined recordings. The band released a self-titled album on Willowtip Records in 2009 and followed it with II (2016) on Relapse Records, recorded with producer Kurt Ballou at Godcity Studio, which incorporated sharper thrash riffing alongside their characteristic blast-beat brutality. Now based in Brooklyn, the band has remained active through consistent lineup changes over more than two decades.
Magura is a Moscow-based black metal project formed in 2023, named after the Slavic spirit of wind. The project channels pre-Christian Slavic mythology into atmospheric black metal.
Roanoke's Magus the Giant are a new arrival to the sludge metal world, born in 2024 with the Appalachian mountains as a backdrop and a sound built accordingly — slow, colossal, and corroded. Virginia's heavy underground has a new presence to reckon with.
Magzilla was a doom, stoner, and sludge metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2013 until splitting up in 2017. The quartet — featuring Guilherme Foresti on vocals and guitar, Pedro Alves on guitar, Joe Borges on bass, and Leandro Furini on drums — released two records: The Oath in March 2016 and a self-titled album in July 2017.
Athens, Georgia's Maha Pralaya draw on Hindu cosmology for their name and on extreme metal's most volatile fusion — black and death — for their sound. Since 2017 they've produced something genuinely unsettling out of the South's college-town underground.
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