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Madame Mayhem - Now You Know
Review by Gary Hill
More or less a heavy metal album, this does have a lot of leanings toward AOR mainstream music.

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Madwagon - With Love From Shangri La
Review by Larry Toering
New metal in the pacific northwest is getting more and more attention lately with some great new stuff coming out, and Madwagon bring the goods with the best of them.

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Paul Maged - The Wild (digital single)
Review by Gary Hill
Punk and good old fashioned hard rock merge on this. It has a bit of a DIY vibe, but that’s not a bad thing.
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Mahavatar - Go With The NO!
Review by Gary Hill
This is the first album from New York band Mahavatar, and it shows a LOT of promise for great things to come. They have created an intriguing blend of numetal, classic metal, epic neo classical metal and a good many other sounds.
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Yngwie Malmsteen - Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - Unleash The Fury
Review by Lisa Palmeno
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force released Unleash The Fury (Spitfire Records) on July 26, 2005. Rock fans will love this 18-song compilation of metal masterpieces.
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Mama's Boys - Runaway Dreams: 1980-1992
Review by Gary Hill
Mama's Boys is an intriguing band. I always wanted to like them more than I did.

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Månegarm - Fornaldarsagor
Review by Mike Korn
In Europe, heavy metal is looked upon as another way to connect to the past. There are tons of bands whose focus is paying tribute to the pagan cultures of old Europe, particularly the Vikings.

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Manilla Road - Atlantis Rising
Review by Mike Korn
Manilla Road is truly the band that would not die. Never caving in to whatever the prevailing trend was (be it grunge, death or glam), the Wichita, Kansas band had a career that defied the odds and managed to release some outstanding epic heavy metal during the 80's and early 90's.
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Manowar - Black Wind, Fire & Steel: Atlantic Albums 1987-1992
Review by Gary Hill
This collection of three albums from Manowar is classy. It includes a poster and a booklet along with all three CDs (in separate cardboard album cover sleeves) in a cardboard clamshell box.

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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Review by Gary Hill
Marilyn Manson is very controversial, but if you really take the time to listen to the music, there is a dark beauty and charm to it.
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Mastodon - Leviathan
Review by Mike Korn
There is a generation gap in heavy metal that seems unbridgable. The veterans who remember the great years of the 70's and 80's seem content to bask in the music of their youth, giving very little heed to newer bands such as Shadows Fall or Lamb of God.
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Chantel McGregor - Bury'd Alive
Review by Gary Hill

I have put this album under heavy metal. That's mainly because of the guitar sound.


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Melechesh - Enki
Review by Mike Korn
Enki, also known as Ea, was a god worshipped by both the Sumerians and Babylonians.

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Mennen - Freakazoid
Review by Gary Hill
Freakazoid is the fifth album from Swedish band Mennen. While they are well known in Europe and Japan, this might be the first time many music fans in America have heard of the group.
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Metal Church - The Elektra Years 1984-1989
Review by Gary Hill

This new three-CD set gathers up the first three albums from Metal Church in one handy set. It comes with a cool booklet turned poster.


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Metal Militia - Perpetual State of Aggression
Review by Mike Korn
Milwaukee Metalfest is the annual gathering of head bangers that some have likened to a heavy metal cattle drive, with thousands of lowing fans plodding continuously in front of mostly unknown and unlauded bands.
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Metal Pistol - Magnum Force
Review by Gary Hill
This act is a metal band with a female lead singer. Her name is “Sunny Lee,” and that’s not quite the kind of name you’d expect for a metal band.

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Metal Witch - Tales from the Underground
Review by Gary Hill
While this CD was released in May of this year, from what I can tell the album originally hit shelves eight or so years ago. This is potent metal.

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Metallica - Master of Puppets
Review by Greg Olma
The year was 1986.  Although thrash metal was already a few years old, Metallica really brought it into the mainstream with Master of Puppets. 

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Metallica - Hard Wired...To Self Destruct
Review by Mike Korn
Plagued by over a decade of rather tepid heavy metal, Metallica made a strong push to reclaim some of their glory on their last album “Death Magnetic” and did a reasonable job of it.

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Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Review by Gary Hill
I know Metallica gets a lot of flack for a lot of things. I'll be the first to admit that their later output is largely inconsistent.

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MetalMorphosis - MetalMorphosis Volume 1
Review by Larry Toering
MetalMorphosis Volume 1 is a smash-up of jazz standards and jazz style metal tunes, by three very gifted players who come together for the sheer sake of pushing the boundaries of where old standards can go.

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The Mighty One - Torch Of Rock And Roll
Review by Gary Hill
The story of this act is interesting, and most of it is captured in the lyrics to the title track.

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Millarium - First Blood Running
Review by Gary Hill
I like this album quite a bit.

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Mindcage - Our Own Devices
Review by Gary Hill
This is quite an effective metal album.

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Morbid Angel - Heretic
Review by Mike Korn
The grand old ghouls of death metal, Morbid Angel have a tough task to keep themselves from falling into the dreaded "influential but over the hill" slot.

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Morbid Angel - Gateways of Annihilation
Review by Mike Korn
I wasn't expecting much from this release, as the venerable Morbid Angel, amongst the oldest of active death metal acts, has not been especially impressive in recent years.

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Mordred - The Noise Years
Review by Gary Hill
Mordred is quite an interesting band. I have to admit to never having heard of them before.

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Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
Review by Gary Hill
Motley Crue somewhat defined an era of heavy metal, and this landmark album was the beginning of that influence by them.
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Mötley Crüe - Live Entertainment or Death
Review by Brian Angotti and Gary Hill
The fans have asked for it for years and the Crue gives them Entertainment or Death. Entertainment or Death is Motley Crue's first live album since exploding on the L.A. scene nearly twenty years earlier.
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Mötley Crüe - New Tattoo
Review by Brian Angotti
Motley Crüe, the bad boys of rock, return and ink us with New Tattoo! There may be a new Crüe for the new millennium, but not a new sound.

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Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
Review by Mike Korn
Motörhead is a band I've enjoyed and respected for over 20 years. They have never compromised on their raw blues-soaked heavy metal.
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Motörhead - Hammered
Review by Mike Korn
Just when you thought it was time to stick a fork in Motörhead they come roaring back with "Hammered", and again we doubting Thomases must bow our heads in shame.

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Mourning by Morning - A Step Away From Light ; A Step Into Abyss
Review by Gary Hill
I have to admit to not being the biggest fan of extreme metal. Yet, sometimes it really works for me.

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Mystfall - Celestial Vision
Review by Gary Hill
This is a symphonic metal band from Greece. This album is the kind of thing that really grows on you. 

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