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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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Formed in Mechelen in 2008 with an explicit mission to revive the early 1990s doom-death sound, Marche Funèbre have since released ten albums and performed over 180 concerts across more than 15 countries. Key releases including Into the Arms of Darkness, Roots of Grief, and the more recent Echoes From Beyond trace the band's growth from underground act to one of Belgium's most prolific doom-death exports.
Mardröm is a black/doom metal and drone project from Stolzenau, Germany, formed in 2024. Their sound occupies the suffocating intersection of black metal's frigid atmosphere, doom's crushing weight, and drone's hypnotic repetition.
Mare Infinitum is a atmospheric doom/death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2011. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mares of Diomedes is a doom and sludge metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. Named after the man-eating horses of Greek mythology, they deliver crushing doom-sludge.
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