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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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Brand new in 2025, Eureka, Missouri's Mosterhaven practice raw atmospheric black metal with folk underpinnings, their debut effort immediately pointing toward windswept, nature-worshipping extremity with an unpolished, DIY conviction.
Motherwood is a two-person atmospheric black metal project built around the guitar, vocals, and songwriting of Guilherme Malosso, with Yuri Camargo providing synthesizers and ambient texture. The project has steadily grown in ambition, moving from the raw introspection of their 2017 self-titled debut through the dense, depression-steeped atmospheres of "Im Zeichen der Dunkelheit" (2023) and "A Fading Elegy" (2024).
Mountain Hermit is a atmospheric black metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2020. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania's Mountain Shadow are a newly formed (2024) project spanning an unusually wide stylistic range — atmospheric black metal, folk metal, death metal, doom, and death-doom — suggesting a band intent on using the full palette of extreme metal rather than settling into a single lane. The project's scope and ambition make it one of the more intriguing recent arrivals in the Pennsylvania underground.
Muireterium builds atmospheric black metal that drifts between cosmic and natural imagery, weaving soaring synths and coiling guitar textures into vast, meditative soundscapes. The project released the nature-worshipping "Ode to the Nature" in 2017 and followed it with the space-themed "The Eternity Aura" in 2018, both issued through Depressive Illusions Records.
Murdrum is a atmospheric black metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2017. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
East Hampton, Connecticut's Murked arrived in 2023 with an atmospheric black metal approach that draws on New England's grey skies and dense forests for its oppressive, enveloping sound. The project inhabits the more expansive, textural wing of black metal, favoring mood over pure aggression.
Murw is a atmospheric black metal band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 2009. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Mute Ocean is a atmospheric black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2014. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
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