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Mock the Mankind is a doom and post-metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
A five-piece sludge and doom metal band from Ghent, Belgium, signed to Consouling Sounds and Lay Bare Recordings. They debuted with the 21-minute EP 'Mudslinger' (2020), followed by their self-titled 12" (2021) and the full-length 'The Great Liberation Through Hearing' (2023), earning a reputation for massively heavy, riff-driven performances that reviewers described with the phrase 'there is heavy, and then there is Modder.'
Modern Funeral Art is a melodic gothic and doom metal band from the Toulouse-Montauban area of France, active since 1998. With nearly three decades of activity, they craft emotionally rich gothic doom layered with melodic sophistication.
West Palm Beach's Moguera channel the oppressive weight of sludge into long-form post-metal compositions, letting their doom-laden South Florida sound breathe and collapse under its own mass. Their approach since 2016 favors atmosphere and crush over any impulse toward accessibility.
Pittsburgh's Molasses Barge live up to their name with heavyweight doom metal that moves with the deliberate, unstoppable momentum of something enormous and slow. Active since 2011, they've built their reputation within Pittsburgh's consistently strong heavy underground.
Pittsburgh's Mold Farmer blend the fuzz-soaked riff worship of stoner metal with the funeral pace of doom, cultivating a sound that's both hazy and heavy in equal measure. Since 2019 they've added another layer to Pittsburgh's already rich tradition of slow and heavy music.
Toledo, Ohio's Mold Golem work at the crossroads of heavy and doom metal, crafting riff-driven material that draws from traditional metal foundations while leaning into darker, slower territory. Formed in 2019, they represent Toledo's quieter but genuine contribution to the Midwest heavy music scene.
Molde is a black and doom metal band from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2012. They fuse black metal's darkness with doom's oppressive weight from the Irish south.
Molestiah is a doom/death metal band from Bladel, the Netherlands, formed in 2020. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
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