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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Thunderfist Chronicles (Deluxe Version) (2025)
05/26 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
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Meat Shop is a power/speed metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the high-velocity riffing and anthemic power that defines the intersection of power and speed metal in the Teutonic tradition.
A groove metal act from the Karelian city of Petrozavodsk, Meatall has been delivering rhythmically charged compositions since 2016. The band brings heavy grooves to the shores of Lake Onega.
A thrash 'n' roll act from the tiny village of Talacchio in the Marche region, Meatball Explosion lives up to its deliciously absurd name with irreverent, groove-laden thrash since 2013. The band pairs Italian culinary humor with riff-heavy aggression.
Meatgag is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Russia, formed in 2024. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Meatgrinder is a death metal band from Dresden, Germany, active since 2013. Their sound delivers crushing, no-frills death metal from the Saxon capital, a city whose underground extreme metal scene continues to produce uncompromising acts.
Meathook Seed is an industrial death metal band from Birmingham, England, active since 1993, later incorporating industrial rock elements. Their creative evolution spans from brutal industrial death metal to more accessible industrial rock territory.
Meatknife is a brutal death metal band from Emden, Germany, formed in 2011. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Mech is a Warsaw-based act that evolved from rock to heavy metal, active since 2014. The band channels the mechanical energy of their name into driving, riff-heavy compositions.
A deathcore act from Marseille, Mechanical Decay has been delivering breakdown-heavy extremity since 2009. The band brings the Mediterranean city's intensity to a genre more typically associated with the American underground.
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