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Macabro is a speed metal/punk band from São Paulo, Brazil, featuring Ruan Pablo on vocals, Gui Disanti on guitar, Naum Prado on bass, and Uriel Franco on drums. The band channels working-class protest energy alongside themes of Satanism and anarchy, and released the album "Mensageiros do Caos" (Messengers of Chaos) in December 2023.
Macaca Fuscata is a Spanish-language metal trio from Madrid, Spain, consisting of bass/vocals, guitars, and drums. Their catalog includes the tracks 'Circo Canibal,' 'Mi novia es un walking dead,' and 'Tradición secular,' blending heavy instrumentation with Spanish-language vocals.
Macacos da Manchúria is a death/doom metal project from São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2021 by brothers Alexandre Paloschi (vocals, guitars, drum programming) and Henrique Paloschi (bass, guitars). The band's name is a tribute to victims of Unit 731, and their debut full-length "Bessa" (2022) — recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely by Alexandre Paloschi — was composed and produced in a home studio between August and December 2021.
MacAllister Project is a power and folk metal band from San Fernando, Spain, formed in 2025. They blend power metal's soaring energy with folk metal's traditional instrumentation and Celtic-inspired melodies.
MacAnimal were a hard rock and heavy metal band from the Amstetten-Ybbstal area of Lower Austria, active through the first half of the 1990s with an internationally composed lineup. The band built a strong regional following across the Mostviertel and beyond, playing the stages of the Austrian metal circuit during a formative era for the domestic scene. They are documented in the Encyclopaedia Metallum under groove and thrash-inflected heavy metal.
Macaria is a folk and death metal band from Lecce, Italy, formed in 2016. They weave southern Italian folk elements into death metal from the Pugliese heel.
Everett's Mace fuse the pit-ready aggression of crossover thrash with classic metal riffing, coming in fast and low with every track. Since 2017 they've been a reliable dose of no-pretense, high-velocity heaviness from the Pacific Northwest.
Mace Head is a black/doom metal and crust band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, active since 2019 with a discography spanning demos, splits, and EPs including "Jötun" and "DAMÄLOG." Their sound fuses the raw nihilism of crust punk with the oppressive weight of black and doom metal.
Maceration is a Danish death metal band from Esbjerg, originally active in the early 1990s as pioneers of the Danish death metal scene before reuniting 30 years later. Their 2025 album Serpent Devourment continues their legacy of old-school brutality alongside melody, featuring members of Invocator, Exmortem, and Corpus Mortale.
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