    Lorna Shore | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2010 | Deathcore / Death Metal | 5 | 4 | 68 | — | I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me 2025 |
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 Lou Reed | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Art Rock / Avant-Garde Metal | 1 | 0 | 10 | — | Lulu 2011 |
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    Love Lost but Not Forgotten | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1997 | Emo / Emoviolence | 2 | 2 | 27 | — | Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery 2002 |
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 Loyal to the Grave | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 1998 | — | 0 | 1 | 7 | — | Stronger Than All 2008 |
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 Lunar Aurora | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | 1994 | Atmospheric Black Metal / Black Metal | 1 | 0 | 3 | — | A Haudiga Fluag / Schwarzä Feus & Schwarzäs Isa 2004 |
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 Lustmord | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | — | Alternative Rock / Dark Ambient | 1 | 0 | 9 | — | Pigs of the Roman Empire 2004 |
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 Lyrinx | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2004 | Depressive Black Metal | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Only the Wind Remembers / Ending the Circle of Life 2008 |
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    Macabre | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1985 | Death Metal / Grindcore | 6 | 7 | 140 | — | Carnival of Killers 2020 |
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    Machine Head | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1991 | Heavy Metal / Thrash Metal | 11 | 1 | 134 | — | UNATØNED 2025 |
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| M Mael Mórdha | 🇮🇪 Ireland | — | 1998 | Black Metal / Doom Metal | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | The Soul Must Sleep / Cluain Tarḃ 2005 |
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    Mahria | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | 2010 | Screamo / Emo | 1 | 3 | 25 | — | Analemma 2017 |
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 Majorel | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Emo | 1 | 0 | 11 | — | Desolate Hands Move the Hour 2018 |
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 Majority Rule | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1996 | — | 1 | 0 | 9 | — | Document #12 2002 |
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 Make Do and Mend | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2006 | Post-Hardcore | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Make Do and Mend / Touché Amoré 2010 |
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    Make Them Suffer | 🇦🇺 Australia | — | 2009 | Deathcore / Metalcore | 5 | 1 | 58 | — | Make Them Suffer 2024 |
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 Maker | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2007 | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | 4-Way Split 2014 |
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 Malevolence | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2010 | Deathcore | 0 | 1 | 6 | — | The Aggression Sessions 2023 |
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    Malevolent Creation | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1987 | Death Metal / Heavy Metal | 13 | 1 | 152 | — | Malevolent Creation / Monstrosity 2023 |
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 Malice at the Palace | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2015 | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Split 2017 |
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 Malicious Secrets | 🇫🇷 France | — | 1999 | Black Metal | 1 | 0 | 7 | — | From the Entrails to the Dirt 2004 |
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  Malignant Altar | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2018 | Death Metal | 1 | 1 | 10 | — | Gosudar / Malignant Altar 2022 |
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 Malthusian | 🇮🇪 Ireland | — | 2012 | — | 1 | 0 | 5 | — | Time’s Withering Shadow 2022 |
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 Manzer | 🇫🇷 France | — | 2008 | Black Metal | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Pictavian Demonslaught 2013 |
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    Marduk | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1990 | Black Metal / Death Metal | 15 | 8 | 174 | — | Memento Mori 2023 |
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    Mare Cognitum | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2011 | Atmospheric Black Metal / Ambient | 8 | 0 | 42 | — | Solar Paroxysm 2021 |
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 Marietta | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2011 | Math Pop / Midwest Emo | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Couples Therapy 2012 |
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    Marilyn Manson | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1989 | Alternative Rock / Heavy Metal | 13 | 4 | 209 | — | One Assassination Under God, Chapter 2 2026 |
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 Marissa Nadler | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Contemporary Folk / Dark Folk | 1 | 0 | 9 | — | Songs of Townes Van Zandt, Vol. III 2022 |
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    Maroon | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | 1998 | Metalcore / Heavy Metal | 5 | 2 | 74 | — | Order 2009 |
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 Martire | 🇦🇺 Australia | — | 1986 | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Winds of Desecration / Hellstorm – Chaosrape 1999 |
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 Massa Nera | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2015 | Emo / Emoviolence | 0 | 1 | 6 | — | Hymnes aux désarrois de la peau 2019 |
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    Massacre | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1984 | Death Metal | 5 | 5 | 76 | — | Necrolution 2024 |
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 Mastodon | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2000 | Progressive Metal / Heavy Metal | 9 | 4 | 118 | 4.5 / 5.0 | Marrow Deep 2026 |
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 Mayday | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Les 120 journees de Sodome 1992 |
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    Mayhem | 🇳🇴 Norway | — | 1984 | Black Metal / Crust Punk | 7 | 3 | 82 | — | Liturgy of Death 2026 |
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    Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2004 | Southern Rock / Heavy Metal | 4 | 1 | 47 | — | IV 2011 |
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    Megadeth | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1983 | Heavy Metal / Thrash Metal | 17 | 0 | 187 | 4.5 / 5.0 | Megadeth 2026 |
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    Melechesh | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | — | 1993 | Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal | 6 | 4 | 71 | — | Sentinels of Shamash 2026 |
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    Melvins | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1983 | Alternative Rock / Sludge Metal | 38 | 26 | 523 | — | Thunderball 2025 |
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    Memphis May Fire | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2006 | Metalcore / Post-Hardcore | 8 | 2 | 96 | — | Shapeshifter 2025 |
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    Mental Cruelty | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | 2016 | Deathcore / Black Metal | 5 | 1 | 54 | — | Zwielicht 2023 |
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   Merciless | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1986 | Death Metal | 4 | 0 | 36 | — | Merciless 2002 |
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| M Mercyless | 🇫🇷 France | — | 1987 | Black Metal / Death Metal | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Alvused / Mercyless 2017 |
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    Merzbow | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 1979 | Noise / Heavy Metal | 5 | 1 | 34 | — | 2R0I2P0 2020 |
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    Meshuggah | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1987 | Progressive Metal / Death Metal | 9 | 6 | 113 | — | Immutable 2022 |
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   Metallica | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1981 | Heavy Metal / Thrash Metal | 12 | 4 | 164 | — | 72 Seasons 2023 |
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| M Metalucifer | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 1995 | Black Metal / Heavy Metal | 1 | 0 | 19 | — | The Asian Tyrants 2019 |
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 mewithoutYou | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2001 | Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Norma Jean / mewithoutYou 2002 |
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    Mgła | 🇵🇱 Poland | — | 2000 | Black Metal / Doom Metal | 5 | 3 | 47 | — | Age of Excuse 2019 |
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 Mike Kunka | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Alternative Metal / Doom Metal | 1 | 0 | 12 | — | Three Men and a Baby 2016 |
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