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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Mist Crown is a atmospheric black/doom/death metal band from Évora, Portugal, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Mitochondrial Sun is a atmospheric black metal/electronic band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2019. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Mjältsjuka is a atmospheric black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Mnira is a atmospheric black metal band from Tønsberg, Norway, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Modrig is a raw atmospheric black metal project from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2018. Their bleak, suffocating sound spans releases like Ablebend and Seelendürre, channeling desolation through walls of tremolo-picked anguish and lo-fi atmospheric textures.
Moenen is a atmospheric black metal band from Dordrecht, the Netherlands, formed in 2016. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Molh is a atmospheric black metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2024. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Mondnacht are an atmospheric black metal and dark ambient band from Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, who released their debut album 'Natura ingens est' in April 2023, followed by a second album later that same year. The project deals with themes of depression, nihilism, misanthropy, and self-destruction embedded within expansive, bleak atmospheric black metal compositions. Mondnacht are active on Bandcamp as an independent, underground act.
Monestrel is a raw, atmospheric black metal and ambient project from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, formed in 2025. They fuse raw black metal with ambient atmospheres.
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