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Monumentum is a gothic/doom metal (early); darkwave/gothic metal (mid); darkwave (later) band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing doom metal of devastating weight and deliberate pace.
Mood:Doom is a doom and death metal band from Finland, formed in 2011. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in melancholy and oppressive heaviness.
Mookerdam is a Los Angeles band dragging death metal into the swamp, combining crushing doom weight with sludge-coated riffs and an abyssal low-end that has been their signature since forming in 2010. The band occupies the uglier, slower end of the death-doom spectrum, where tempo is a weapon and density is the point.
A blackened death/doom metal act from Akureyri in northern Iceland, Moon Bearer channels the Arctic darkness of its subarctic setting into crushing, atmospheric compositions. Active since 2019, the band operates from Iceland's second city, surrounded by fjords and volcanic terrain.
A stoner metal act from Jönköping that evolved from stoner rock into psychedelic doom, Moon Coven has been crafting heavy, mind-expanding compositions since 2013. The band channels lunar worship into thick, fuzz-laden rituals.
Moon Curse is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin stoner-doom band formed in 2012, weaving fuzz-heavy riffing through slow, hypnotic grooves in the tradition of the genre's heaviest practitioners. Their sound is built on thick, deliberate tempos and the kind of psychedelic weight that makes the room feel smaller.
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 of Delirium is a Salt Lake City black-doom project active since 2011, marrying the bleak minimalism of black metal to the crushing, slow-motion weight of doom. The band draws on the isolation of the high desert landscape, channeling it into long, mournful compositions.
Moon Reaper is a blackened doom metal and hardcore band from Bristol, England, formed in 2014. They fuse blackened doom with hardcore's visceral energy.
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