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Menhyr is a doom/post-metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2014. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Portland, Oregon's Menin have been sculpting stoner/doom metal since 2017 with the unhurried confidence of a band that understands what the genre demands: weight, patience, and a riff heavy enough to collapse under its own gravity. Portland's fertile underground has long welcomed the slow and heavy, and Menin fit naturally into that tradition — drawing from the psychedelic fog of stoner metal while anchoring everything in the bone-deep plod of doom. Their sound evokes the Pacific Northwest's overcast skies and towering forests, a particular kind of gloom that is neither aggressive nor resigned but simply immovable.
Mental Distortion is a death/doom metal band from Flensburg, Germany, active since 2018. Their sound combines death metal's aggression with doom's crushing weight, emerging from Germany's northernmost major city near the Danish border.
Philadelphia's Mental Funeral carry one of the most storied names in the death/doom subgenre, and the band — newly active as of 2025 — approaches the weight of that legacy with appropriately glacial heaviness. Their death/doom metal fuses the crushing desolation of funeral doom's tempos with death metal's most sepulchral vocal textures and chord structures, building an atmosphere of profound, suffocating grief. Philadelphia has a long history of dark and extreme music, and Mental Funeral plant their flag in the genre's most lugubrious, mournful corner.
Mental Torment is a death/funeral doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2013. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Rooted in the South American underground, Mephistopheles play a morbid amalgam of doom, death, and black metal drawing from the same unholy lineage as Mystifier, Sarcófago, and Blasphemy. Their two early demo tapes — 'The Prophecy' and 'Black God' — were later compiled and released on CD by Voz da Morte Prod in 2018 as 'The Prophecy of Black God,' preserving eleven tracks of raw, English-language ritual extremity.
A doom metal act from Zwolle, Merca delivers crushing, glacially paced compositions. The band channels the contemplative weight of the Dutch lowlands into oppressive doom.
Mercy is a heavy/doom metal act from the southern Swedish town of Sölvesborg, active since 2018. The band delivers crushing, mercy-free doom from the heart of Blekinge.
A stoner and doom metal act from London, Meridian Sun formed in 2023 with a sound built on massive, sun-baked riffs and hypnotic grooves. The band adds to the capital's robust doom and stoner metal contingent.
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