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Massakre is a pioneering thrash and death metal band from Santiago, Chile, founded in 1985 by Yanko Tólic, who built the project out of earlier garage bands Sepulcro and Embrión. Influenced by Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Hellhammer, they were among the first speed and thrash metal acts in Chile and Latin America, releasing their debut album Massacre in 1989 and continuing through Psychotic Redemption (2001) and Crematorium (2005). The band is also noted for their early adoption of corpse paint in a thrash metal context, a practice later imitated widely across the scene.
Massaluca is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2024. They blend Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with metalcore's structural dynamics.
A black metal act from Bergen, Massemord has been delivering ferocious compositions since 2011. The Norwegian word for 'mass murder' signals the band's commitment to uncompromising black metal aggression.
Massen is a symphonic and melodic black metal band originally from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Berlin, blending shredding guitars and blast beats with haunting clean vocals and orchestral string arrangements. Signed to Apostasy Records, they have released three albums including 'Contraesthetic' (2021), 'Chaos Leading To Harmony' (2022), and 'Gentle Brutality' (2023), each exploring the tension between beauty and extremity.
Massenhinrichtung is a pagan black metal band from Minsk, Belarus, founded in late 2004, whose name translates to 'mass execution' in German. With six releases spanning 2008 to 2019 on labels like East Side Records and Der Schwarze Tod, they fuse raw black metal ferocity with pagan folk elements rooted in Belarusian cultural identity.
Massenmord is a black metal project from Switzerland, formed in 2021, whose name translates to 'mass murder' in German. Operating out of the Swiss black metal underground, the project delivers raw, uncompromising black metal steeped in misanthropic atmosphere.
Warren, Michigan's Masses in Atrophy blend death metal brutality with deathcore's structural heaviness into something that hits with the weight of the Rust Belt's industrial decay. Since 2019 they've been one of Metro Detroit's more punishing contributions to the extreme underground.
Massgrav is a black/death metal band from Malmö, Sweden, formed in 2005. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A death metal act from Gelnhausen in Hesse, Massgrave has been delivering crushing extremity since 2008. The band channels the grave imagery of their name into heavy, old-school death metal.
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