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Mystic Charm is a death/doom metal band from Zwolle, the Netherlands, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mystic Dawn is a blackened doom and gothic metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2025. They fuse blackened aggression with doom and gothic metal's dark atmospheres.
MysticalGate is a progressive/doom metal (early); progressive/death metal (later) band from Voronezh, Russia, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mystons is a stoner/doom metal and rock act from Turku, active since 2013. The band delivers thick, mysterious grooves from southwestern Finland.
Pittsburgh death/doom outfit Mythic deal in the slow, suffocating end of the spectrum, dragging crushing riffs through a fog of morbid atmosphere. Formed in 2015, the band pairs the deliberate heaviness of doom with death metal's guttural aggression.
North East, Maryland's Mythosphere traffic in the slow, haze-soaked intersection of doom and stoner metal, built on heavy riffs and a loose, psychedelic weight. Active since 2022, the band leans into the hypnotic repetition and fuzz-heavy tones that define the stoner doom sound.
Oklahoma City's Mywitchmyblood drag black metal's icy menace through the swamp of sludge and doom, producing something slow, ugly, and corrosive since 2017. The three-genre collision gives the band a distinctly Southern gothic weight uncommon in the region's extreme metal scene.
MÜL is a funeral doom metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2001. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Mábura is an instrumental psychedelic stoner/doom metal trio from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2019, known for fuzz-heavy riffs and ritualistic atmospheres. The band released the EP "Heni" in August 2020 and contributed the track "Bong of God" to the compilation "Doomed & Stoned: The Instrumentalists" (2021); they later collaborated with Lagarto Rei on the two-song instrumental EP "Abyssopelagic."
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