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Maāra are a black/doom metal band from Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, operating in the dark and atmospheric end of the black metal spectrum. The band maintains a Bandcamp presence under maara.bandcamp.com, representing the small but active black metal underground of the Tyrolean Alps. Specific release information remains limited, reflecting their underground status within the Austrian scene.
MDP is a black/funeral doom metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2023. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Me0d is a death and doom metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. They blend death metal's aggression with doom's glacial weight.
Denver's Mead Thief blend heavy doom with the muscle of classic heavy metal, evoking mile-high altitude and long, barren stretches of highway in equal measure. Since forming in 2020, the band has leaned into slow, crushing riffs anchored by a traditional songwriting sensibility that keeps the hooks in reach.
Medal House is a drone and doom metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2019. They craft immersive drone-doom from the Scottish capital.
Tulsa's Medicine Horse emerged in 2023 at the intersection of Southern metal, sludge, and doom — a fitting combination for Oklahoma's red-dirt expanse and oil-field grimness. Their sound is slow and swamp-thick, dragging humid riffs through the kind of landscape that breeds spiritual weight.
Medicine Noose is a sludge/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, creating what they describe as "dystopic 90s-style sludge" across a series of demos and splits including collaborations with Disgusted Geist and SPEWN. Their heavy, dark aesthetic channels the crushing weight of 1990s sludge metal tradition.
Megalith Levitation is a stoner/doom metal act from the Ural city of Chelyabinsk, active since 2019. The band channels the ancient, monolithic energy of their name into heavy, psychedelic doom from the gateway to Siberia.
Megaloceros is a doom metal band from the Midlands, England, formed in 2017. Named after the extinct giant deer, they deliver crushing doom of prehistoric proportions.
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