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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Indianapolis death/doom act Mother of Graves have been one of the more compelling newer voices in melodic death-doom since forming in 2019 — their sound draws on the Finnish tradition of grief-soaked melody without merely imitating it.
Mother Superior is a gothic and doom metal band from the UK, formed in 2022. They blend gothic metal's dark romanticism with doom's oppressive weight.
A psychedelic doom metal and rock act from Odesa, Mother Witch has been crafting heavy, occult-tinged compositions since 2014. The band channels the witchcraft imagery of their name into thick, hazy doom from the Ukrainian port city.
Chicago's Motherless are a brand new entity formed in 2025, working in experimental doom/sludge territory that pushes against genre convention — early activity suggests an interest in texture and dissonance over conventional song structure.
Mothermound is a doom/progressive metal band from Tolmin, Slovenia, formed in 2013. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Lexington, Kentucky's Motherplant cultivate a slow-burning psychedelic doom sound that leans as heavily on hazy, mind-bending atmosphere as it does on crushing low-end weight. Formed in 2015, they bring a distinctly Kentucky earthiness to the psychedelic doom tradition.
MotherSloth is a stoner, doom, and sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2008. Their extensive catalog spans releases from Moribund Star to Death Flower, delivering crushing doom-sludge with stoner metal's hazy grooves.
Mothertrucker is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Birmingham, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they deliver crushing stoner-sludge-doom from the West Midlands.
Philadelphia stoner/doom outfit Mothman and the Thunderbirds mine American cryptid mythology for atmosphere, wrapping their heavy riffs in an occult Appalachian mystique that feels right at home in the city's heavy music scene. Formed in 2020, the band traffics in slow, smoky heaviness with a taste for the strange.
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