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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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MÜL is a funeral doom metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2001. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Mábura is an instrumental psychedelic stoner/doom metal trio from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2019, known for fuzz-heavy riffs and ritualistic atmospheres. The band released the EP "Heni" in August 2020 and contributed the track "Bong of God" to the compilation "Doomed & Stoned: The Instrumentalists" (2021); they later collaborated with Lagarto Rei on the two-song instrumental EP "Abyssopelagic."
Wisconsin experimental black metal project Mágoa formed in 2025, bending the genre's conventions toward unconventional structures and unsettling atmospheres. The name — Portuguese for grief or sorrow — signals an emotionally driven approach to experimentation.
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Márk Meszlényi is a technical and brutal death metal artist from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2021. He crafts technically demanding death metal with surgical precision.
Más Allá de la Carne is a grindcore band from Ciudad Real, Spain, formed in 2020. Their name meaning "beyond the flesh" sets the tone for their visceral, punishing grindcore assault.
Mástil is a heavy metal and hard rock act from Madrid, blending classic metal riffing with blues-inflected hard rock grooves. Active since 2017, the band occupies the intersection of traditional metal and rock that has long been a staple of the Spanish capital's live circuit.
Mârtraum is a black metal project from Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia, active since 2020. The project channels nightmare imagery into cold, atmospheric black metal.
Mães Morrendo is a doom metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2019 as a solo endeavour by multi-instrumentalist Melissa Ângela, who also performs with Dirty Grave and the psychedelic doom band Melissa. The project blends doom metal with sludge, grunge, and rap influences, building a catalogue that includes releases such as "Corrosivo", "Hemorragia Social", and "Água-viva". By 2024 the project had expanded into a full power-trio lineup with Neli on drums and Bárbara Guieiro on bass.
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