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MainPain is a heavy metal band from Novara, Italy, established in autumn 1996. Their discography includes 'Food For Thoughts' (2006) and 'The Empirical Shape of Pain' (2012), and they have opened for Blaze Bayley across European venues while sharing stages with Strana Officina and Domine.
Mainswitch is a deathcore act from Tallinn, delivering breakdown-heavy aggression seasoned with Baltic intensity. Active since 2015, the band operates within Estonia's small but dedicated extreme metal community.
Maintain is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2015. Their sound bridges the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with the breakdown-driven intensity of metalcore.
Mairu is a post-metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2019. They craft atmospheric, dynamic post-metal compositions.
A deathcore outfit from the Galician city of A Coruña, Maisha brings crushing breakdowns and guttural fury to Spain's Atlantic coast. Formed in 2018, the band injects the aggression of modern extreme metal into Galicia's rock-oriented music landscape.
Maison Dieu is a doom metal and alternative rock band from Ancona, Italy, formed in 2019. They blend doom metal's weight with alternative rock's accessibility.
A thrash metal act from the eastern Polish town of Biała Podlaska, Maithros has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2009. The band brings thrash energy to Poland's eastern borderland.
A progressive/melodic death metal act from the university city of Linköping, Maitreya has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2011. Named after the future Buddha, the band channels Eastern philosophy into complex Swedish melodeath.
Majak is a Neumünster, Germany-based band whose self-described "Occult Heavy Magick" has evolved from black/thrash metal roots into a psychedelic-tinged blackened heavy metal hybrid. Their 2024 album "Restless Wicked" earned acclaim as one of the year's best debuts, and they are booked for Rock Hard Festival 2026.
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