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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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Santa Rosa, California's Mournful Cries marry the crushing tempos of doom with the melodic vocabulary of traditional heavy metal, crafting songs that carry a brooding emotional weight alongside genuine riff craftsmanship.
Salt Lake City's Mournful Incarnation specialize in funeral doom of the bleakest kind — cavernous, nearly motionless compositions that stretch grief into something vast and suffocating, born from the silence of the Utah desert.
Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.
Greensboro, North Carolina's Mourning Cloak have been dragging doom and sludge into the Southern underground since 2013, pairing monolithic riffs with a feedback-laced heaviness that owes as much to noise as it does to traditional doom.
Mourning Dawn is a black and doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they deliver crushing black-doom from the French capital.
Laurel, Montana's Mourning Dust occupy a rare and remote corner of the American underground, blending black metal's rawness with the hazy, psychedelic weight of doom and sludge — music that sounds like the vast Montana landscape turned hostile.
Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.
Minneapolis's Mourning Light weave atmospheric post-metal's expansive dynamics with doom's gravitational pull, crafting music that breathes and collapses in long, emotionally resonant arcs from the heart of the Twin Cities scene.
Mourning Mist is a avant-garde black metal (early); doom metal (later) band from Perugia, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
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