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Portland, Maine's Misery are practitioners of the most desolate strain of funeral doom, stretching compositions to glacial lengths and burying melody beneath layers of crushing weight, operating at the far, airless margins of the genre since 2003.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Misery Machine blend the mournful melody of doom metal with the heaviness of death metal in a melodic doom/death style that has earned them a dedicated following in the Appalachian region's underground since their 2022 formation.
Mislead by Beauty is a doom, gothic, and alternative metal band from the UK, formed in 2025. They blend doom and gothic metal's dark aesthetics with alternative accessibility.
A psychedelic doom metal act from the central Portuguese city of Leiria, Misleading has been crafting mind-bending compositions since 2019. The band layers hallucinatory textures over crushing doom foundations.
A heavy/doom metal project from the Netherlands, Mismorium emerged in 2025 with a sound rooted in crushing heaviness. The project merges the weight of doom with traditional heavy metal hooks.
MissKalin is a sludge/doom metal/death 'n' roll band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2019. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mist Crown is a atmospheric black/doom/death metal band from Évora, Portugal, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Mist of Nihil is a melodic death and doom metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014. They blend melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with doom's oppressive weight.
A psychedelic stoner/doom metal act from the Black Sea port of Odesa, Mist Tower has been crafting heavy, mind-expanding compositions since 2020. The band channels the coastal fog imagery of their name into thick, psychedelic doom.
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