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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Megalomania is a thrash/groove metal band from Skåne, Sweden, formed in 2016. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Megalomaniac is a thrash/speed metal act from the coastal town of Östhammar, active since 2011. The band delivers the grandiose aggression their name demands.
MegaMAG is a groove metal act from the small southern Hungarian town of Kalocsa, active since 2011. The band delivers rhythmically charged heaviness from the paprika capital of Hungary.
A thrash metal act from Helsinki, Megamutant has been delivering aggressive, mutation-themed compositions since 2018. The band channels radioactive imagery into rapid-fire Finnish thrash.
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.
Megara is a melodic heavy metal act from the Galician city of Ourense, active since 2015. The band delivers soaring, hook-laden metal from northwestern Spain's thermal spring capital.
A stoner metal and rock act from Naples, Megaride takes its name from the ancient island that forms the foundation of Castel dell'Ovo. Active since 2018, the band channels the Mediterranean city's layered history into heavy, groove-laden compositions.
Megatherion is a thrash metal band with hardcore influences from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2017. Named after Aleister Crowley's self-proclaimed title meaning "The Great Beast," their sound fuses thrash metal's velocity with hardcore's confrontational intensity.
Megatherium is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal act from Verona, named after the prehistoric giant ground sloth since 2015. The band delivers appropriately massive, slow-moving compositions drenched in psychedelic haze.
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