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Morphia is a atmospheric death/doom metal band from Epe, the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
A one-man project helmed by Matheus Leonel, previously of Midnight Loss, Morphin merges the languishing weight of funeral doom with melodic death metal's emotional melodicism. The project inhabits a space between isolation and fragile beauty, shaped entirely by Leonel's solo compositional vision.
Morpholith is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2018. They channel crushing heaviness from the volcanic island.
Morschen is a black and doom metal project from Germany, formed in 2014. They blend the bleakness of black metal with the oppressive weight of doom into a suffocating sonic experience.
Morta Sentinel is a death/doom metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2021. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Baltimore gothic and doom metal duo Mortal Blood, formed in 2022, combine the mournful weight of doom with the melancholic grandeur of gothic metal, finding a natural home in a city with a long tradition of dark and atmospheric music. Their sound is heavy yet elegiac, built on atmosphere as much as riffs.
Mortal Man are a heavy and doom metal band from Wilmington, North Carolina, delivering slow-burning riffs with a classic heaviness that owes as much to traditional metal as it does to the crawling tempos of doom.
Mortal Remains are a groove and thrash metal band out of Queens, New York City, fusing the head-down punch of groove metal with thrash aggression rooted in the NYC underground.
A heavy/doom metal and hard rock act from Sundsvall in northern Sweden, Mortalicum has been delivering classic-style doom since 2013. The band channels the weight of Norrland's long winters into slow, crushing compositions.
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