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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A stoner and doom metal act from Birmingham, the city that birthed the genre, Margarita Witch Cult channels the Sabbathian tradition with fuzz-drenched riffs and occult themes since 2022. The band carries the weight of Birmingham's doom legacy in every down-tuned chord.
Marianas Rest is a melodic doom/death metal band from Kotka, Finland, formed in 2016. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Marja Üldine is a heavy/doom/folk metal, various band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2022. They weave folk traditions into heavy metal compositions.
Formed in Barbacena, Minas Gerais in 2005 by bassist Delmario Lauriano and guitarist/vocalist Rodrigo Costa, Marmorium Crucis blended gothic doom with deathrock and psychedelic textures, drawing lyrical themes from regional folklore — sanatoriums, cemeteries, and misty streets. Their 2011 demo Le chemin de croix des ames collects nine originals alongside a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter", capturing the band's phantasmagoric aesthetic before their eventual dissolution.
Blood Fetish is a goregrind project from the university city of Szeged, formed in 2022. The project delivers short, grotesque bursts of extreme music rooted in the most visceral traditions of grindcore.
A one-man progressive melodic doom metal project from Zonhoven in Limburg, founded in 2018, Marrowlands draws on the atmospheric and melodic traditions of Draconian, Opeth, Trees of Eternity, and My Dying Bride to craft entirely instrumental compositions. The project remains unsigned and independent, releasing material directly through Bandcamp.
Marrowrend is a stoner/doom metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2021. The band delivers bone-crushing, marrow-extracting doom from Russia's cultural capital.
Mars is a stoner and doom metal band from Mars, France, formed in 2024. They channel crushing stoner doom from their aptly named hometown.
Marthe is a heavy and doom metal band from Bologna, Italy, formed in 2019. They channel crushing heavy doom from the Emilian capital.
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