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Morning Dead is a death doom solo project from Río Bueno, southern Chile, driven entirely by multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Ocampo. The project released its debut full-length, Desde el Otro Lado, in 2023.
Mornvm is a melodic death, black, and doom metal band from Kalamata, Greece, formed in 2024. They blend multiple extreme metal styles from the Peloponnese.
Philadelphia's Moros play crushing sludge and doom metal since 2015, drawing on the Greek deity of fate their name invokes to deliver slow, suffocating heaviness from a city with one of the Northeast's most vibrant heavy underground communities.
Seattle sludge and doom duo Morose lean into the Pacific Northwest's penchant for weight and misery, stacking corrosive low-end with slow, punishing tempos. Formed in 2016, they channel the city's rain-soaked gloom into music that crawls under your skin and refuses to let go.
Morphia is a atmospheric death/doom metal band from Epe, the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
A one-man project helmed by Matheus Leonel, previously of Midnight Loss, Morphin merges the languishing weight of funeral doom with melodic death metal's emotional melodicism. The project inhabits a space between isolation and fragile beauty, shaped entirely by Leonel's solo compositional vision.
Morpholith is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2018. They channel crushing heaviness from the volcanic island.
Morschen is a black and doom metal project from Germany, formed in 2014. They blend the bleakness of black metal with the oppressive weight of doom into a suffocating sonic experience.
Morta Sentinel is a death/doom metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2021. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
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