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Manuscript is a gothic and death metal band from Kohtla-Järve, Estonia, formed in 2023. They merge gothic metal's dark romanticism with death metal's visceral aggression.
Manuscriptum is a brutal death metal band from Irkutsk, Russia, formed in 2012. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Many Eyes is the metallic hardcore project of former Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley, formed in 2022 alongside Charlie and Nick Bellmore of Toxic Holocaust fame and connected through Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta. Their debut album 'The Light Age' swings from venomous hardcore fury into disarmingly catchy grunge-inflected choruses, channeling the raw energy of 1990s heavy music. The band represents Buckley's artistic rebirth after the acrimonious end of Every Time I Die.
A pagan black metal act from Metz in Lorraine, Many Moons Ago has been channeling ancient, pre-Christian themes into atmospheric compositions since 2013. The band draws from the deep history of the Moselle region.
Many Suffer is a black and doom metal band from Bradford, England, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal's darkness with doom's crushing weight.
Manyac is a Slovak melodic-thrash metal band whose 2025 album 'Dark Philosophy' spans eleven tracks and fifty-three minutes of aggressive yet melodic metal. Produced at Flameart N-semble Studio, the album explores social commentary on greed, environmental destruction, and existential despair through balanced thrash riffing and accessible melodic hooks.
Manzanar is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, formed in 2025. Named after the infamous Japanese internment camp, the project channels historical trauma into dark, atmospheric compositions.
Manzer is a black/thrash metal act from the western French city of Poitiers, formed in 2025. The band delivers the dark velocity of blackened thrash from the city where Charles Martel halted the Moorish advance.
MAOT is a thrash metal band from Nienburg, Germany, formed in 2023. Their sound delivers raw thrash aggression from the Lower Saxony town on the Weser river.
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