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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.
Mahakala is a band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020, having evolved from sludge and doom metal into heavy metal. Named after the Buddhist protector deity, their creative evolution reflects a journey from crushing heaviness to classic metal power.
Mahanvhantara was a black metal band from Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, formed in 2007 with lyrical themes rooted in Thelema, Ophiolatry, and Gnostic Luciferianism. The band released the demo O Decantar dos Dragões Decaídos in July 2007, recorded at Cathal Dallan Home Studio in Aracaju, and later returned with the album Dissolutionem - Finis Coronat Opus in September 2018, released through Black Hearts Records.
Mahapralaya is a black metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2017. They channel apocalyptic black metal darkness from southwestern Finland.
Mahara is a stoner and doom metal band from Sabadell, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel heavy, riff-driven doom and stoner metal through a haze of distortion and slow-burning grooves.
Dayton's Maharaja wield stoner and sludge metal like a slow-motion avalanche — massive, repetitive, and hypnotic in the best possible way. Since 2014 they've been one of Ohio's most reliably heavy contributors to the low-end underground.
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