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Lexington, Kentucky's Motherplant cultivate a slow-burning psychedelic doom sound that leans as heavily on hazy, mind-bending atmosphere as it does on crushing low-end weight. Formed in 2015, they bring a distinctly Kentucky earthiness to the psychedelic doom tradition.
MotherSloth is a stoner, doom, and sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2008. Their extensive catalog spans releases from Moribund Star to Death Flower, delivering crushing doom-sludge with stoner metal's hazy grooves.
Mothertrucker is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Birmingham, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they deliver crushing stoner-sludge-doom from the West Midlands.
Philadelphia stoner/doom outfit Mothman and the Thunderbirds mine American cryptid mythology for atmosphere, wrapping their heavy riffs in an occult Appalachian mystique that feels right at home in the city's heavy music scene. Formed in 2020, the band traffics in slow, smoky heaviness with a taste for the strange.
A three-piece instrumental stoner doom band from the port city of Oudenburg in West Flanders, Belgium, active since 2012 on Polderrecords. Their self-titled debut EP (2014) established their instrumental 'polder rock' identity — a slow, crushing blend of stoner riffs, sludge, and old-school hard rock — and their concept album 'Oumuamua' extended that approach into heavier post-metal territory.
Mouflon is a doom/death metal band from Arnhem, the Netherlands, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Mould is a sludge/doom metal band from Terneuzen, the Netherlands, formed in 2020. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Birmingham's Mountain Bastard drag blackened doom metal through the mud and misery of the Deep South, merging the freeze of second-wave black metal with the lumbering hopelessness of funeral doom in a sound that is as much a product of Alabama's heavy music legacy as it is of Scandinavia's. Formed in 2017, they are one of the more severe acts in the regional underground.
Brooklyn doom and sludge metal outfit Mountain God have been hauling monumental, slow-moving riff structures through New York City's underground since 2013, bringing an almost devotional weight to music that feels both ancient and urban. Their sound sits at the slow, heavy end of the New York metal spectrum, indebted equally to Cathedral and Eyehategod.
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