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Moon Incarnate is a doom-death metal duo from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2024, featuring members of Valborg and Beyondition. Their debut Hymns to the Moon delivers powerfully patient gothic death-doom exploring literary horror themes drawn from Lovecraft, Stoker, and classical poetry.
Moon Twin is a Corona, California experimental death metal project formed in 2017, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional song structures and a willingness to absorb influences from outside metal entirely. Their work is less interested in brutality for its own sake than in using death metal's toolkit to explore unfamiliar sonic territory.
Moon Witch is a Dayton, Ohio band formed in 2021 that tears through black metal, death metal, and grindcore in roughly equal measure, trading in speed and ugliness with clear enthusiasm. Their Bandcamp handle — moonwitchusbm — signals a commitment to underground black metal aesthetics even as the grind influence pulls them toward pure noise.
Moonchapel is a brand-new black-death metal project from Westminster, Maryland, formed in 2025. Still in its earliest stages, the band draws on the intertwined traditions of black and death metal — blastbeats, tremolo riffs, and an atmosphere pitched somewhere between the infernal and the void.
MoonGod is a Union, New Jersey project formed in 2013 that straddles black metal, death metal, and deathcore — a combination that yields dense, heavy music with extremity coming from multiple directions simultaneously. The deathcore element brings a breakdown-ready low-end to what would otherwise be a straightforward blackened death framework.
Moonlight Ritual is a death metal band from England, formed in 2020. They channel ritualistic death metal darkness.
Moonlord is a black and death metal band from Langres, France, formed in 2014. They forge extreme metal at the fierce crossroads of black and death metal.
A progressive death metal band from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, merging the technical complexity of prog with death metal's crushing weight in what appears to be an early but ambitious entry into the scene.
Atlanta's Moonshield have been crafting melodic death metal since 2018, bringing the twin-guitar harmonics and aggressive forward momentum of the Scandinavian MDM tradition to the American South.
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