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Moon Wizard is a Salt Lake City stoner-doom outfit formed in 2019, conjuring thick, fuzz-saturated riffs over slow tempos in the classic tradition of the genre. Their sound leans into the psychedelic and occult rock side of stoner metal, with a heavy groove that suits the Utah landscape's vast, strange terrain.
Moonbreath is a Hammond, Indiana doom metal project formed in 2018, working in the slow, heavy tradition of the genre with a focus on atmosphere and sustained weight. Hammond's industrial character adds a certain grim context to their funeral-paced compositions.
Mooncroft is a gothic doom metal band from Belarus, formed in 2020 that channels slow, mournful riffs through a lens of gothic darkness and atmospheric weight. Their sound dwells in the heavy, reverb-drenched spaces where doom metal meets gothic romanticism.
Moonfall is a black and doom metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2011. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom metal's glacial weight.
Moonfarmer is a Grand Junction, Colorado sludge-doom project formed in 2024, combining stoner heaviness with sludge's abrasive, tar-thick texture and doom's slow-grinding tempos. Grand Junction's high desert isolation feels right at home in music this massive and unhurried.
Moonmath is a gothic/doom metal band from the interior of Rio Grande do Sul whose sound is heavy, melancholic, and psychologically dense, drawing on nihilism and introspection as core lyrical pillars. They have self-released two six-track albums — The Whisper's Hand (2017) and Isolated (released across 2018–2021) — both recorded locally and independently.
A Pennsylvania doom, stoner, and sludge outfit active since 1999, Moons traffic in slow, pulverizing riffs and narcotic haze — occupying the heavy, low-tuned intersection where all three genres bleed together.
Founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1989 as Morbid God before adopting the Moonspell name in 1992, the band grew from black metal origins into one of gothic metal's most enduring acts. Their debut album Wolfheart (1995) and follow-up Irreligious (1996) established their blend of atmospheric gothic metal with folk and black metal elements, and 2006's Memorial became the first Portuguese metal album to be certified Gold. The concept album 1755 (2017), sung entirely in Portuguese, recounts the devastating Lisbon earthquake and is considered among their most ambitious works.
MoonWay is a gothic, doom, and death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Belarusian extreme metal underground. Their sound interweaves the crushing weight of doom and death metal with gothic melodicism, building dense and sorrowful compositions across nearly three decades of activity.
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