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Malanoctem is a band from Lanciano, Italy, formed in 2024, having evolved from thrash metal into death and black metal. Their name meaning "bad night" captures the darkness of their extreme metal evolution.
Malanova is a thrash and black metal band from Varese, Italy, formed in 2018. They fuse thrash metal's aggression with black metal's cold fury from Lombardy.
Malaphar is a death metal band from Reinheim, Germany, formed in 2022. Their sound delivers the crushing heaviness and guttural intensity of death metal from the heart of Hessen's underground scene.
Malarazza is a grindcore band from Eboli in southern Italy. Their self-titled 2020 album delivers eight tracks of aggressive, fast-paced grindcore across twenty-three minutes, released as a free download under Creative Commons licensing.
A black metal band from Hainaut, Belgium, Malaria occupy the Belgian extreme underground with recordings catalogued on Metal Archives. The band contribute to a country that, despite its small size, has produced a disproportionately significant black metal scene stretching back to the early 1990s.
Malaria is a thrash metal and crossover band from Merlo, Buenos Aires, operating in the tradition of aggressive street-level metal with lyrical themes spanning war, social commentary, and the mosh pit. The band has self-released multiple recordings on Bandcamp, including a three-track demo (2016), the eight-track "Future Decimation EP" (2017), and the two-track "Piss Tape" (2018).
A heavy metal and hard rock act from Mahón on the island of Menorca, Malas Artes has been delivering classic-style metal since 2011. The band brings traditional metal to the Balearic Islands from their Mediterranean island setting.
Malasangre is a sludge, drone, and funeral doom metal band from Voghera, Italy, formed in 2019. Their Italian name meaning "bad blood" captures the suffocating heaviness of their drone-doom.
Malasorte is a one-man black metal project from Helsinki, Finland, created by Jal'zoroth in 2024. The debut album 'Apex Sovereignty' delivers eleven tracks of relentless riffs, thunderous drums, and venomous vocals steeped in cosmic horror and occult themes, released through Inverse Records.
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