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Medusian is a symphonic death metal act from Gothenburg, formed in 2025. The band channels the petrifying mythology of Medusa into grandiose, orchestral death metal from Sweden's metal capital.
Meet the Maker is a deathcore act from Athens, active since 2018. The band delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural aggression from the Greek capital's increasingly diverse extreme music scene.
Formed in Tuzla in late 1993, Mefistofeles are one of the oldest active death metal bands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, having released the demo Ceremony Is About to Begin in 1995 and the full-length Daemon Sign in 1997. After going dormant around 2000, the original members reconvened in 2012 and released a self-titled album in 2019, extending a career spanning more than three decades.
A black/death metal act from Bergamo in Lombardy, Mefitic has been delivering cavernous extremity since 2018. The band's name, evoking noxious, poisonous fumes, matches their suffocating sonic approach.
Megalaw is a death/thrash metal band from Långås, Sweden, formed in 2016. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Megalith is a death/thrash metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2020. Their sound combines the brutality of death metal with thrash's aggressive precision, emerging from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital's underground.
Megaptere is a progressive death metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2012. They push death metal into progressive territory with ambitious, technically demanding compositions.
Megazetor is a progressive and technical death metal band from Göd, Hungary, active since 2004. With over two decades of activity, they deliver technically demanding death metal.
Megazostrodon is a death/doom metal band from Cologne, Germany, named after one of Earth's earliest mammalian ancestors. Their 2020 self-titled EP delivers two tracks of dense, crushing doom-death with massive, hovering riffs that draw from cosmic and atmospheric doom traditions.
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