Musical groups from Madrid

Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in 1981 and active until 1992. Mecano became one of the most successful Spanish pop bands of all time. The band is still the best-selling Spanish band, with over 20 million records worldwide. They were considered by some to be avant-garde for their time and part of la Movida Madrileña countercultural movement. They had a brief comeback in 1998.

Spanish metal band

Spanish rock band

Spanish rock band

Spanish musical group; industrial band

Hard rock/heavy metal band from Spain

musical ensemble

thumb|Leonor Watling singing in the band Marlango is a Spanish music band deeply influenced by Tom Waits. The members of the band are Leonor Watling, Alejandro Pelayo and Óscar Ybarra.

Sôber is an alternative rock band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 1994. Founded when Carlos Escobedo posted an advertisement in a local guitar store and was then contacted by Antonio Bernardini to start Sober Stoned. The band's line-up has primarily consisted of vocalist/bassist Carlos Escobedo, guitarists Jorge Escobedo and Antonio Bernardini, while going through a number of drummers. In 2002, with Alberto Madrid as drummer, the band released Paradÿsso. The album sold more than 100,000 copies. In 2004 they released Reddo, which sold more than 50,000 copies.

Spanish pop rock band

Pereza (Spanish for “laziness”) was a Spanish rock group from Alameda de Osuna (Madrid) comprising Rubén Pozo Prats and José Miguel Conejo Torres, artistically known as Rubén and Leiva. They have recorded six albums Pereza, Algo para cantar (Something to Sing), Animales (Animals), Los amigos de los animales (The Animals’ Friends), Aproximaciones (Approximations) released in the summer of 2007, Aviones (Aeroplanes), released in August 2009, and a last compilation that includes two previously unreleased discs: “Mama Quiero Ser una Estrella del Rock'n’Roll” (Mama I Want to be a Rock’n’Roll Star)

Spanish musical group; punk band

Spanish indie rock band

Spanish pop/rock group active from 1978 to 1988

Spanish new wave band

Wormed is a Spanish technical death metal band. The group formed in 1998 in Madrid and are known for their science fiction and outer space-influenced imagery, lyrics and sound. The band has released four full-length albums.

Spanish music band

Spanish band

Spanish band

Leño was a Spanish hard rock band created in 1978 in Madrid.

Obús is a Spanish heavy metal band founded in Madrid, Spain in 1980. They stood out because they took the risk of making a big spectacle in their concerts, to reach to the level of other international heavy metal bands. In addition, the lyrics they write and the feelings they transmit connect with the people that follow them. As they said in an interview: "All our songs, some more and some less, have a meaning". Far away from renouncing to their genre, they have always claimed that they were a heavy metal band, and they wrote a song about this genre in their first album called, "Dosis de Heavy

Teitanblood is a Spanish extreme metal band formed in 2003. Based in Madrid, it currently consists of NSK (vocals, guitar, bass) and J (drums). The band released its debut album, Seven Chalices, in 2009. Its follow-up, Death, was released in May 2014 via The Ajna Offensive and Norma Evangelium Diaboli record labels. The latter record was included on Decibel magazine's list of "Top 40 Albums of 2014" as number 26.

Spanish band (1981-1987)

Spanish band

Spanish tv-based band (2005–2006)