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A doom/stoner metal act from Belgrade, Mortuary Hearse has been crafting heavy, funeral-paced compositions since 2023. The band channels the morbid transport imagery of their name into crushing doom.
Mortum Insignia is a death and doom metal band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death from the Steel City.
Mortuus Rex is a doom metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2019. Their Latin name meaning "dead king" captures the sepulchral weight of their doom compositions.
Phoenix doom/sludge outfit Mosara channel the oppressive desert heat into slow, grinding heaviness — formed in 2019, they pair massive distorted riffs with a suffocating patience well-suited to the Arizona landscape.
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Moss is a sludge, drone, and doom metal act from Southampton, delivering some of the slowest, heaviest, and most punishing music to emerge from the UK underground since 2005. Their glacial tempos and overwhelming volume have made them a reference point for extreme doom.
From the rural western Massachusetts town of Cummington, Mosslung fuse funeral doom's paralyzing slowness with black metal's icy atmosphere and ambient drone, creating music as desolate and overgrown as the New England woods surrounding them.
Moth Collector is a experimental/ambient (early); doom/gothic metal (later) band from Poland, formed in 2017. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
A doom and sludge metal act from Scotland, Moth Corpse emerged in 2024 with a sound built on crushing, down-tuned riffs and agonized vocals. The band channels the grey, oppressive atmosphere of the Scottish landscape into suffocating heaviness.
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