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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Machine Messiah is a band from Florence, Italy, active since 2004, having evolved from heavy and power metal into hard rock. Their creative journey spans two decades of musical evolution.
Maciej Podsiadło is a heavy metal/hard rock (early); heavy/power metal (later) band from Szczecin, Poland, formed in 2014. They deliver soaring power metal driven by melodic hooks and anthemic performances.
Mad Butcher is a heavy/speed metal band from Essen, Germany, whose 2023 single "Flesh & Blood" delivers classic heavy metal aggression with vivid butchery imagery. The quartet's straightforward, blade-sharp approach to traditional metal channels the genre's Teutonic roots.
Mad Muppets is a heavy and thrash metal band from Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, formed in 2025 that brings a fresh take on classic thrash and heavy metal aesthetics. As a newly formed act, they represent the latest wave of Swiss thrash revivalism.
Mad Road is a progressive heavy and thrash metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2014. They combine progressive metal's technical ambition with the raw energy of heavy and thrash metal.
Mad Spanner is a heavy/thrash metal and punk act from Shrewsbury in Shropshire, blending metal aggression with punk energy since 2016. The band's irreverent name matches their crossover approach to loud, fast music.
Mad Squad is a thrash/heavy metal/crossover (early); melodic hardcore/crossover (later) band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2017. They deliver high-energy crossover thrash with punk-fueled aggression.
Madalena is a heavy and doom metal band from Tuscany, Italy, formed in 2019. They channel crushing heavy doom from the Italian countryside.
Madame Guillotine is a heavy metal and hard rock act from the Norman town of Argentan, active since 2017. The band channels the French Revolution's most infamous instrument of execution into dramatic, riff-driven metal.
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