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Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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A stoner/doom metal act from the northern Portuguese city of Braga, Macumba has been delivering heavy, ritualistic grooves since 2015. Named after the Afro-Brazilian spiritual practice, the band channels syncretic mysticism into crushing doom.
Mad Act is a progressive stoner and sludge metal band from Amiens, France, formed in 2019. They blend progressive ambition with stoner-sludge metal's crushing, groove-laden heaviness.
Mad Blaze is a depressive black metal band from France, formed in 2025. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Mad Brains is a death and groove metal band from Agrigento, Italy, formed in 2022, incorporating industrial elements. They blend death-groove metal with mechanical industrial textures from Sicily.
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.
A groove metal act from the Far Eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border, Mad Cow Disease has been delivering rhythmically charged compositions since 2017. The band brings groove metal to one of Russia's most remote metal outposts.
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Mad Evil is a thrash metal band from Ludwigshafen, Germany, active since 2014. Their sound delivers the rapid-fire riffing and aggressive intensity that defines German thrash metal, drawing from the Rhineland-Palatinate's underground scene.
A thrash metal act from Modena in Emilia-Romagna, Mad Maze has been delivering aggressive, labyrinthine compositions since 2016. The band brings ripping thrash to the heart of northern Italy's motor city.
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