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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Mourning of the Heretic is a black, death, and doom metal band from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal spanning three of metal's darkest subgenres.
Mourning Pyre is a doom/black metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
Mourning Scars is a heavy/doom metal act from Gothenburg, formed in 2023. The band delivers crushing, mournful compositions from Sweden's premier metal city.
Corona, California's Mourning Star specialize in epic doom metal of the grand, theatrical variety — slow-burning compositions built on massive riffs, dramatic pacing, and a sense of ancient, mythic weight.
Fairfax, Virginia's Mournspire traffic in death/doom of the heavy and suffocating variety, blending the genre's slow, crushing tempos with death metal's brutal downtuned attack in a sound that has been taking shape since 2017.
Crushing Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Mesa, Arizona's Mouthbreather have been crafting heavy, oppressive sludge and doom metal since 2012, pairing abrasive textures and deliberately sluggish tempos with a raw energy native to the Southwest's underground heavy music community.
Mriodom is a doom and stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025. They craft slow, heavy compositions at the intersection of doom's crushing weight and stoner metal's hazy grooves.
Mt. Placid is a sludge and doom metal band from England, formed in 2017. Their ironic name belies the crushing weight of their sludge-doom.
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