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Metallus is a doom and thrash metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2023. They combine doom metal's crushing weight with thrash metal's aggressive velocity.
Metatomb is a funeral doom metal/drone band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2025. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Vancouver, Washington's Meterse operate in the slow, heavy, and hallucinatory space where psychedelic doom lives — a sound of enormous riffs moving at deliberate tempos while lysergic textures unspool above them. Formed in 2017, the band embodies the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of heavy music that leans into mood and atmosphere rather than aggression alone. Their psychedelic doom approach makes them a natural draw for listeners who want their heaviness wrapped in fog and distortion.
Tucson's Methra have been hauling sludge and doom through the Arizona desert since 2010, building a sound as punishing as the landscape that surrounds them — massive, slow-grinding riffs layered over feedback and the kind of misanthropic heaviness that sludge demands. Their decade-plus run in one of the Southwest's underrated heavy music cities speaks to a genuine commitment to the form. Equal parts Eyehategod-filth and Electric Wizard-weight, they make music for people who want their doom dirty.
Cleveland's Methuselah bring a primal black metal vision to a city that has produced some of America's most uncompromising underground music. Formed in 2021 and operating under a name that evokes ancient, almost geological time, they traffic in the cold and misanthropic aesthetics at the core of the genre — raw production, tremolo-picked ferocity, and an atmosphere that suggests ritual rather than entertainment. They add a black metal edge to Cleveland's already dark and storied heavy music history.
Metide is a sludge/doom/post-metal band from Bergamo, Italy, formed in 2019. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
A progressive heavy/doom metal act from Milan, Meursault Omega takes its name from Camus' existentialist protagonist and channels that literary nihilism into heavy, contemplative compositions since 2020. The band merges intellectual depth with crushing weight.
Mezereon is a doom and sludge metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2023. They channel oppressive doom-sludge from the northern Finnish city.
Mictian play a heavy death/doom blend rooted in the dark, mournful tradition of Black Sabbath and carried forward by three brothers who formed the group after their previous cover band dissolved. They documented their early sound on the demo CDs Hallucination (2005) and Lost in My Sick Mind (2010), and appeared on the Brazilian compilation Doomed Serenades Volume 2 in 2015.
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