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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Masquerade is a symphonic/progressive metal band from England, active since 2014. Their music combines orchestral arrangements and theatrical flair with the technical precision of progressive metal, creating elaborate and dramatic compositions.
The Massacre Cave is a progressive heavy/thrash/groove metal band from the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, active since 2012. Perhaps the most remote metal band in Britain, they take their name from a dark chapter of island history and deliver ambitious metal from a community of fewer than 100 people.
The Meaning Under is a progressive metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2016. They explore complex compositions and dynamic arrangements within a progressive metal framework.
Graz-based thrash metal band formed in 2013, The Mechanix operate with a self-described "Thrash Metal at its best" ethos and released their debut EP "Attacked By Ross PT. 1" in 2014. The band functions as an independent act within the Styrian metal underground.
The Medea Project is a doom/gothic/sludge metal band from the east coast of England, active since 2017. Named after the tragic figure of Greek mythology, their music blends the weight of doom and sludge with the dark romanticism of gothic metal.
The Meffs are an Essex punk duo made up of Lily Hopkins and Lewis Copsey, and their sound is built for maximum impact with minimal personnel. Since forming in 2019, they have used guitar, drums, shared urgency, and sharp political writing to create frantic British punk that feels both stripped down and fully charged. Releases such as Broken Britain, Broken Brains, and What a Life pull from garage punk, classic protest punk, and contemporary social frustration, with songs like "Stand Up, Speak Out," "No," "Clowns," and "Wasted on Women" showing the band's directness. The Meffs fit punk scope without qualification: short songs, hard-hit drums, overdriven guitar, anti-establishment bite, and live energy that prizes speed over polish. Their two-piece format gives the music a lean quality, but it does not feel small. Hopkins' vocal attack and Copsey's forceful drumming fill the space with agitation and swing. The band's appeal is practical and immediate: say the thing clearly, hit the chorus hard, and leave scorch marks before anyone can tidy the message up.
Death metal band from Rio Claro, São Paulo, active since 2025. The band released a self-titled debut EP in 2024 with five tracks: "Evil," "Bloody Cross," "Stronger Than You," "A Monster In The Park," and "Priest From Hell."
The Mensis Ritual is a death metal/deathcore band from England, formed in 2019. Their name references the nightmarish ritual from the video game Bloodborne, and their music delivers similarly intense and brutal extremity.
The Menzingers formed in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 2006 and developed into one of modern punk's strongest storytelling bands. Early records such as A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology and Chamberlain Waits carried a rawer melodic-punk charge, but On the Impossible Past gave the band its defining voice: worn-in guitars, shouted harmonies, and lyrics that turn memory, drinking, work, aging, and hometown mythology into vivid scenes. Rented World, After the Party, Hello Exile, Some of It Was True, and later acoustic reworkings show a group refining heartland punk without losing urgency. Greg Barnett and Tom May's dual writing gives the catalog range, moving from desperate speed to mid-tempo reflection while keeping the choruses communal. The Menzingers are heavy in emotional grain rather than metal force; their guitars ring and roar, but the lasting impact is narrative. They fit punk and pop-punk scope because the songs are built for loud rooms where personal regret becomes shared release. Their best work makes growing older sound bruised, funny, and still worth shouting about.
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