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A New Jersey black/death metal act, this Mourning fuse the cold, tremolo-drenched attack of black metal with death metal's visceral heaviness, forging a harsh and unyielding sound since 2008.
Mourning Angel is a DSBM and blackgaze project from Chomutov, Czech Republic, blending depressive black metal's anguished atmosphere with the shimmering textures of blackgaze. Their releases "Addiction to Selfdestruction" and "Faceless" explore themes of despair and spiritual desolation through layered, emotionally raw compositions.
From the small Ohio town of St. Clairsville, Mourning by Morning have been crafting cold, raw black metal since 2018 — an isolated, atmospheric project that carries the bleakness of the rural Midwest into their compositions.
Mourning Dawn is a black and doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they deliver crushing black-doom from the French capital.
Laurel, Montana's Mourning Dust occupy a rare and remote corner of the American underground, blending black metal's rawness with the hazy, psychedelic weight of doom and sludge — music that sounds like the vast Montana landscape turned hostile.
A black metal project from Budapest, Mourning Fog has been crafting dark, atmospheric compositions since 2011. The project channels the mist and melancholy of its name into cold, contemplative black metal.
Mourning Forest is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 2009. They channel dark French black metal from the Occitan capital.
Mourning Mist is a avant-garde black metal (early); doom metal (later) band from Perugia, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
A Massachusetts depressive black metal project active since 2017, Mourning Moonlight pursue the most introspective and despairing end of the genre — raw, lo-fi, and built around an aching, solitary intensity.
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