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Baltimore gothic and doom metal duo Mortal Blood, formed in 2022, combine the mournful weight of doom with the melancholic grandeur of gothic metal, finding a natural home in a city with a long tradition of dark and atmospheric music. Their sound is heavy yet elegiac, built on atmosphere as much as riffs.
Mortal Man are a heavy and doom metal band from Wilmington, North Carolina, delivering slow-burning riffs with a classic heaviness that owes as much to traditional metal as it does to the crawling tempos of doom.
Mortal Remains are a groove and thrash metal band out of Queens, New York City, fusing the head-down punch of groove metal with thrash aggression rooted in the NYC underground.
A heavy/doom metal and hard rock act from Sundsvall in northern Sweden, Mortalicum has been delivering classic-style doom since 2013. The band channels the weight of Norrland's long winters into slow, crushing compositions.
Mortalitas UK is a doom and gothic metal band from Wales, formed in 2021. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark aesthetics.
Based in Styria, Mortary blend death, doom, and melodic death metal into a slow-burning, atmospheric style. The band has released material through Bandcamp, carving out a niche in the Austrian underground with a sound that bridges the funeral pacing of doom with the melodic sensibilities of the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
Mortavik is a death and doom metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2021. They craft crushing doom-death from the Lancashire seaside town.
An unconventional doom trio built around two bass guitars and drums — with no traditional guitar — Mortem Crucis (Rex, Reverend Hell Insane, and Master Blaster) creates a thick, funeral-paced sound centered on death, consciousness, and dystopia. Their debut album "The Coffin Ride" arrived in March 2024 via Gate of Doom Records, following a two-track self-titled EP from 2021.
Mortem Dogma is a black and doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom metal's crushing weight.
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