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Greek black metal/crust punk band from Corinth, newly formed in 2025 and fusing blackened fury with punk rawness. Their name, meaning 'twilight,' captures the liminal darkness of their hybrid sound.
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.
Madest is a Russian grindcore/grindcrust band from Bryansk. Their 2019 album 'Glitch' packs sixteen tracks of short, punishing intensity — none exceeding three minutes — blending grindcore with crust and hardcore punk aggression.
A melodic groove metal act from Budapest, Before We Fall has been delivering rhythmically charged compositions since 2019. The band blends the hooky aggression of groove metal with melodic sensibility.
March of the Hordes is a death metal/crust band from the Slavonice/Dačice area of Czech Republic, established in autumn 2009. Their discography includes split releases with Disbeatless and Escape the Flesh via Lavadome Productions, placing them firmly in the underground nexus of extreme metal and crust punk.
Marterzid is a death 'n' roll/crust punk band from Berlin, Germany, whose 2025 rehearsal-room demo introduces a four-piece delivering German-language vocals over a raw hybrid of death metal weight, hardcore intensity, and punk urgency. Their sound blends provocative, dystopian themes with aggressive crossover instrumentation.
Martyrdöd formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2001, operating at the intersection of Scandinavian d-beat crust punk and blackened thrash metal, drawing on Anti Cimex, Totalitär, and Bathory as primary influences. The band released a string of albums through Southern Lord Records—including Paranoia (2012), Elddop (2014), and List (2016)—before signing to Century Media for Hexhammaren (2019). Their ability to embed melodic hooks and atmospheric darkness into otherwise brutal crust frameworks has sustained critical attention across nearly twenty-five years of activity.
Mauled is a death/thrash metal and crust punk act from Naples, formed in 2025. The band merges the aggression of extreme metal with the raw energy of crust punk from southern Italy's chaotic capital.
Miasmal Sabbath is a death metal and crust punk band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2016. They fuse death metal's brutality with crust punk's raw urgency.
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