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Mourning of the Heretic is a black, death, and doom metal band from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal spanning three of metal's darkest subgenres.
Mourning Path is a blackened death metal band from Parma, Italy, formed in 2024. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A progressive death metal act from the Västmanland town of Hallstahammar, Mourning Sign has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2017. The band pushes death metal into progressive territory.
Operating out of the Omaha, Nebraska area, Mourning Veil combine the ferocity of death metal with black metal's corrosive atmosphere, forging a death/black hybrid that is both technically driven and darkly expressive.
Lansing, Michigan's Mourning Wolf have been merging melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with black metal's bleak, tremolo-driven intensity since 2013, crafting a hybrid sound rooted in the northern Midwest underground.
Mourningside is a Swiss symphonic death metal project originally conceived in 2000 by Roman Kovalik and R.B. Broggi, finally released in 2020 after two decades. The project blends classical orchestral arrangements and choir vocals with progressive technical death metal, featuring a full ensemble of musicians pushing their compositional boundaries.
Fairfax, Virginia's Mournspire traffic in death/doom of the heavy and suffocating variety, blending the genre's slow, crushing tempos with death metal's brutal downtuned attack in a sound that has been taking shape since 2017.
Henderson, Illinois death metal act Mouth of Sauron combine technical brutality with relentless aggression, drawing on both the technical and brutal death metal traditions to deliver a sound that is punishing in both complexity and raw force.
Los Angeles technical deathcore act Mouth of the Serpent have been pushing the boundaries of extremity since 2010, bringing technical death metal's surgical precision to deathcore's brutal compositional architecture within the sprawling LA underground.
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