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New Jersey's Monocane emerged in 2019 playing black/doom metal with an emphasis on bleak atmosphere and grinding heaviness, merging the two genres' most desolate qualities into a deeply grim sound.
Monodron is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal act from Oslo, formed in 2021. The band crafts expansive, mind-altering compositions that merge psychedelic textures with crushing doom weight.
Out of North Haledon, New Jersey, this doom and heavy metal band have been plying their trade since 1993, blending the plodding gravity of classic doom with the riff-forward directness of traditional heavy metal.
Monolith Cult was an epic doom metal band from Bradford in West Yorkshire, active from 2012 to 2019, who channeled the crushing weight of Candlemass and Black Sabbath into atheistic, negative-themed doom. Their two albums, 'Run From the Light' and 'The Gospel of Despair,' earned them a devoted following in the UK doom underground.
Pittsburgh's Monolith Wielder traffic in the smoke-thickened overlap between stoner and doom metal, building their sound around slow, heavy grooves and the kind of hazy, riff-forward inertia the city's underground does well.
Monolithe is a funeral doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003, having evolved toward melodic death and doom metal. Their pioneering approach to expansive, monolithic doom compositions has made them one of France's most respected extreme doom acts.
A Pennsylvania drone/doom act formed in 2017, Monolithic strip the genre down to its most elemental form — sustained tones, glacial tempos, and near-meditative repetition that collapses under its own weight.
Detroit's Monolithic Architecture arrived in 2024 with a sludge and doom sound befitting their industrial hometown — slow, corrosive riffs built like crumbling infrastructure, heavy with grime and deliberate intention.
Monoliths is a drone, sludge, and doom metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2016. They craft monolithic drone-sludge-doom from the East Midlands.
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