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Manhir is a drone and doom metal band from Alton, England, formed in 2013. They craft crushing drone-doom compositions built on sustained heaviness and repetition.
Maniard is a stoner and doom metal act from Bordeaux, channeling the city's famed hedonistic culture into heavy, fuzz-laden grooves since 2013. The band layers languid, smoke-wreathed riffs over pounding rhythms in the tradition of classic stoner doom.
Manicomio Zero is a death and doom metal band from Savona, Italy, formed in 2016. Their Italian name meaning "asylum zero" captures the madness-tinged heaviness of their doom-death.
Mansion is a doom metal and rock band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2013. They channel occult doom through ritualistic compositions steeped in dark mysticism.
Gray Court, South Carolina's Manticore occupy the slow and heavy space between doom and groove metal, letting mammoth riffs dictate the pace rather than any desire for speed. Since 2019 the band has leaned into midtempo punishment as a core philosophy.
Many Suffer is a black and doom metal band from Bradford, England, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal's darkness with doom's crushing weight.
Mar de Grises was formed in Santiago, Chile in 2000, developing a death/doom sound that incorporated post-rock, ambient, and progressive elements into their dense compositional framework. Their debut The Tatterdemalion Express (2004) established them as a significant voice in South American doom, followed by Draining the Waterheart (2008) and Streams Inwards (2010), the latter named the top doom metal album of 2010 by Metal Storm's user base. The band dissolved in 2013 but announced a reunion in 2024, their catalog standing as one of the most ambitious in Latin American extreme metal.
Mararah is a gothic, doom, symphonic metal, and depressive black metal band from France, formed in 2025. They blend multiple dark metal traditions into brooding, emotionally devastating compositions.
Marasmo is a stoner and doom metal band from the Community of Madrid, Spain, formed in 2011. They channel heavy, crushing doom through a stoner metal lens of distorted riffs and sluggish grooves.
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