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Mourn the Light

CT, US · 2018–present · active
Connecticut's Mourn the Light blend traditional heavy metal muscle with the slow, suffocating weight of doom, channeling classic influences into a sound that is both punishing and melodically rich.
Doom MetalHeavy Metal

Mourner

Nashville, TN, US · 2010–present · active
Nashville's Mourner occupy the heaviest intersection of sludge, drone, and doom, dragging listeners through suffocating low-end frequencies and near-static tempos that feel built from the weight of the Tennessee hills.
Doom MetalDrone MetalSludge Metal

Mourners

Timișoara, RO · 2017–present · active
Mourners is a funeral doom metal band from Timișoara, Romania, formed in 2017. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Doom MetalFuneral Doom Metal

Mourners Lament

Viña del Mar, CL · 2008–present · active
Mourners Lament is a death doom band from Viña del Mar, Chile, active since 2004 and recognized as part of the Chilean doom scene alongside Uaral, Mar de Grises, and Poema Arcanus. Their catalog spans four releases — from the debut Unbroken Solemnity (2008) through We All Be Given (2017), released on Hammerheart Records, to A Grey Farewell (2024) — a nearly 65-minute album of crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and atmospheric synths.
Death MetalDoom Metal

Mournful Cries

Santa Rosa, CA, US · 2019–present · active
Santa Rosa, California's Mournful Cries marry the crushing tempos of doom with the melodic vocabulary of traditional heavy metal, crafting songs that carry a brooding emotional weight alongside genuine riff craftsmanship.
Doom MetalHeavy Metal

Mournful Incarnation

Salt Lake City, UT, US · 2022–present · active
Salt Lake City's Mournful Incarnation specialize in funeral doom of the bleakest kind — cavernous, nearly motionless compositions that stretch grief into something vast and suffocating, born from the silence of the Utah desert.
Doom MetalFuneral Doom Metal

Mourning

Kensington, MD, US · 2008–present · active
Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.
Death MetalDoom Metal

Mourning Cloak

Greensboro, NC, US · 2013–present · active
Greensboro, North Carolina's Mourning Cloak have been dragging doom and sludge into the Southern underground since 2013, pairing monolithic riffs with a feedback-laced heaviness that owes as much to noise as it does to traditional doom.
Doom MetalSludge Metal

Mourning Dawn

Paris, FR · 2003–present · active
Mourning Dawn is a black and doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they deliver crushing black-doom from the French capital.
Black MetalDoom Metal

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