Maelstrom Aeterna is a melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore band from South England, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic power and metalcore's dynamics.

Maersung is a melodic death metal project from Lörrach, Germany, released through Kernkraftritter Records. Their 2021 album "Der unscheinbare Ruf der Ewigkeit" and the nine-minute single "Nebelmeer" combine death metal heaviness with gothic atmospherics and poetic German-language lyrics.

Magnadur is a melodic death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2024. They carry forward the proud Finnish tradition of melodic death metal with sweeping harmonies.

A melodic death metal act from the Atlantic city of Nantes, Magnyfall emerged in 2022 with a sound blending Scandinavian melodeath harmonies with French musical sensibility. The band represents the continued growth of western France's metal underground.

Maintain is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2015. Their sound bridges the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with the breakdown-driven intensity of metalcore.

A progressive/melodic death metal act from the university city of Linköping, Maitreya has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2011. Named after the future Buddha, the band channels Eastern philosophy into complex Swedish melodeath.

A progressive/melodic death metal act from the southeastern Polish town of Przeworsk, Malchus has been crafting technically ambitious compositions since 2010. The biblical name adds a spiritual dimension to their complex metal.

Malefistum is a melodic death/power metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2018. Their sound merges the melodic aggression of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with the anthemic grandeur of power metal, emerging from the Ruhrgebiet's dense metal underground.

Behind Your Fears is a melodic death/black metal act from the southeastern Hungarian town of Szentes, drawing from the Scandinavian extreme metal tradition. The band operates in the fertile but underexplored metal territory of Hungary's southern Great Plain.