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Mister Doom is a doom and stoner metal act from the naval city of Portsmouth, delivering crushing, monolithic riffs since 2024. The straightforward name signals a no-nonsense commitment to the heaviest, slowest end of the metal spectrum.
MistGuide is a doom metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2010, having evolved from funeral doom into blackened doom metal. Their stylistic shift reflects a creative deepening from glacial funeral doom to more aggressive, blackened territory.
Mistralth is a gothic/doom/death metal band from Finland, formed in 2017. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mistveil is a melodic doom and death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. They craft emotive doom-death layered with melodic sophistication.
Misty Grey is a doom metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2013, delivering powerful doom with gothic tones influenced by Candlemass, Pentagram, and Black Sabbath. Their extensive catalog spans eight releases from 2013 through 2023's Visions After Void, recorded at Moontower Studios in Barcelona.
A stoner/doom metal act from Rome, Misty Morning has been crafting hazy, fuzz-drenched compositions since 2009. The band channels the languid atmosphere of their name into heavy, groove-laden doom.
New York's MKDelta blend hardcore sludge and doom into a punishing, slow-grinding sound that leans on suffocating riffs and bleak atmosphere. Formed in 2022, the band describes their music as something that will make you want to quit your job — a fair warning for the faint-hearted.
Columbia, South Carolina's MNRVA traffic in the overlapping territories of doom, stoner, and sludge metal, building slow-burning riff structures with a hazy, sun-baked weight. Founded in 2023, the band carries on the Southern tradition of heaviness as a physical, almost geological force.
A doom and sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon, Moan channel the Pacific Northwest's grey skies and isolation into suffocating, slow-motion heaviness. Active since 2020, they operate in the low-and-slow register where riffs drag like sediment and atmosphere is as important as volume.
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