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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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A Romanian black metal project, Mosrot has been crafting dark compositions since 2017. The project delivers atmospheric black metal rooted in Romanian underground traditions.
Atlanta's Moss and Clay blend atmospheric black metal with genuine folk sensibility — formed in 2022, they weave earthy, melodic elements into their blackened framework, giving their music a distinctly organic and rootsy Georgia character.
Moss Gate is a raw black metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, formed in 2023. They channel primitive, lo-fi raw black metal through a distinctly Finnish underground lens.
California black metal project Moss Witch emerged in 2020, channeling a raw, nature-fixated aesthetic through cold, sparse compositions — their Bandcamp handle hints at a deliberately obscure, occult-adjacent personality.
California-based Mossen have been practicing uncompromising raw black metal since 2017, stripping the genre down to its most confrontational and lo-fi extremes with a cold, primordial approach that owes little to modern production trends.
From the rural western Massachusetts town of Cummington, Mosslung fuse funeral doom's paralyzing slowness with black metal's icy atmosphere and ambient drone, creating music as desolate and overgrown as the New England woods surrounding them.
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.
A black metal project from Parma, Mother Augusta has been crafting dark compositions since 2015. The project channels the ancient imperial title into atmospheric black metal.
Mother Knife is a blackened sludge metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2025. They fuse blackened fury with crushing sludge metal.
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