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Mouflon is a doom/death metal band from Arnhem, the Netherlands, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
A death/sludge metal act from Emmen in Drenthe, Mouldwarp emerged in 2026 with a name referencing the archaic English word for mole. The band pairs death metal aggression with sludge's crushing weight.
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.
A death metal outfit from Spring Lake, Michigan, Mourn have been grinding out brutal, no-frills death metal since 2015 with a raw, unpolished ferocity rooted in the Midwest underground.
Longmont, Colorado's Mourned by Flies have been delivering unrelenting death metal since 2008, earning their place in the Front Range underground through a commitment to grimy, no-compromise brutality.
Mourners Lament is a death doom band from Viña del Mar, Chile, active since 2004 and recognized as part of the Chilean doom scene alongside Uaral, Mar de Grises, and Poema Arcanus. Their catalog spans four releases — from the debut Unbroken Solemnity (2008) through We All Be Given (2017), released on Hammerheart Records, to A Grey Farewell (2024) — a nearly 65-minute album of crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and atmospheric synths.
Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.
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.
Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.
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