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A thrash metal act from the industrial northern English city of Middlesbrough, Major Threat has been delivering aggressive, politically charged compositions since 2013. The band channels the working-class grit of Teesside into Bay Area-influenced thrash.
A thrash metal act from Bratislava, Majster Kat has roots dating to 2007, making them one of the Slovak capital's longer-running thrash bands. The band's Slovak name, meaning 'master executioner,' channels lethal precision into aggressive thrash.
Makabro is a heavy/thrash/power metal band from Villa Regina, Río Negro, formed in 2014 and active in Argentina's Patagonian underground scene. The band self-released a six-track studio EP in 2022, available on Spotify as "Full EP Estudio 2022", documenting their progressive thrash sound.
Makakatron is a Russian avant-garde grindcore formation from Novorossiysk, satirically described as 'a scientific formation created from the staff of the Scientific Research Institute of Macacology.' Their 2019 album 'Monkey Storm' delivers nine tracks of absurdist conceptual grindcore involving fictional primate science.
Makar Čudra is a heavy metal and hard rock act from Bratislava, named after the Gorky short story, active since 2020. The band channels literary Russian romanticism into classic-style metal.
Makari are an Orlando rock band whose music blends post-hardcore roots, emo melody, and polished alternative rock into a bright but emotionally charged sound. Formed in 2011, the group gradually built an audience through releases such as Ghost Stories, Elegies, Hyperreal, Continuum, and Wave Machine, with vocalist Andy Cizek becoming a major part of the band's later identity. Makari's songs often favor clean, soaring vocals, shimmering guitar textures, and rhythmic lift rather than constant heaviness, but their connection to post-hardcore remains clear in the dynamics, urgency, and occasional sharper edges. The band works best when melody and momentum are equal partners: guitars ripple and climb, drums stay busy without crowding the vocal, and choruses open into a sense of release. Lyrically, Makari often deal with distance, longing, memory, emotional disorientation, and the strange beauty of trying to keep a self together. They sit comfortably near modern emo rock and progressive post-hardcore without being locked into either category. Their importance comes from craft and atmosphere. Makari make polished heavy-adjacent rock that still feels personal, using technical ability to support feeling rather than to dominate it, and giving Orlando's post-hardcore lineage a more luminous, melodic branch.
A groove metal and metalcore act from Roeselare with influences drawn from Meshuggah, Crowbar, and the Melvins, Makasrr released their debut Inner Demon to attention in the Belgian underground press. The five-piece—built around the guitar pairing of Gerald Goedhart and David Decoutere—deliver dense, polyrhythmic heaviness with a sludge-informed low end.
Make Them Die Slowly is a melodic black metal and metalcore band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2020. They blend melodic black metal with metalcore's aggressive dynamics.
Perth, Australia's Make Them Suffer have undergone one of metalcore's most dramatic sonic evolutions, moving from the orchestral deathcore of their 2012 debut 'Lord of Woe' through the atmospheric metalcore of 'Worlds Apart' and into the darkly melodic territory of 'How to Survive a Funeral.' Keyboardist Booka Nile's haunting contributions and Sean Harmanis's versatile vocal approach give the band a unique identity within a crowded genre. Their willingness to reinvent their sound with each album has kept them at the forefront of Australian heavy music.
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