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Moribundo is a doom and death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2020. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in misery and oppressive heaviness.
Morito Ergo Sum is a gothic/doom metal band from Södertälje/Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2010. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
Scranton, Pennsylvania's Morkander have been fusing black and doom metal since 2014, generating slow-building, oppressive heaviness from the industrial decay of a northeastern city that lends itself naturally to bleak, heavy music.
Morlah is a psychedelic doom metal act from Bologna, active since 2015. The band layers hallucinatory, mind-expanding textures over crushing doom foundations from Emilia-Romagna's cultural capital.
Boston's Morne have been one of the most distinctive voices in American post-metal and sludge since 2009, fusing crushing Neurosis-influenced heaviness with a somber, searching emotionalism that sets them apart from peers in the genre.
Morning Dead is a death doom solo project from Río Bueno, southern Chile, driven entirely by multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Ocampo. The project released its debut full-length, Desde el Otro Lado, in 2023.
Mornvm is a melodic death, black, and doom metal band from Kalamata, Greece, formed in 2024. They blend multiple extreme metal styles from the Peloponnese.
Philadelphia's Moros play crushing sludge and doom metal since 2015, drawing on the Greek deity of fate their name invokes to deliver slow, suffocating heaviness from a city with one of the Northeast's most vibrant heavy underground communities.
Seattle sludge and doom duo Morose lean into the Pacific Northwest's penchant for weight and misery, stacking corrosive low-end with slow, punishing tempos. Formed in 2016, they channel the city's rain-soaked gloom into music that crawls under your skin and refuses to let go.
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