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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Crushing Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Mesa, Arizona's Mouthbreather have been crafting heavy, oppressive sludge and doom metal since 2012, pairing abrasive textures and deliberately sluggish tempos with a raw energy native to the Southwest's underground heavy music community.
Mriodom is a doom and stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025. They craft slow, heavy compositions at the intersection of doom's crushing weight and stoner metal's hazy grooves.
Mt. Placid is a sludge and doom metal band from England, formed in 2017. Their ironic name belies the crushing weight of their sludge-doom.
Mu Cephei is a doom metal band from Maynooth, Ireland, formed in 2013. Named after one of the largest known stars, they deliver doom of cosmic proportions.
mu:d is a funeral doom/black metal band from Pistoia, Italy, formed in 2021. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
Fayetteville, Arkansas' Mud Lung have been churning out slow, tar-thick sludge and doom since 2013, with a sound that captures the oppressive humidity and isolation of the Ozarks in layers of distorted feedback and downtuned misery.
Mud Valley is a doom and stoner metal band from Dourdan, France, formed in 2025. They channel heavy, sludgy stoner doom from the Île-de-France countryside.
Mudness is a stoner-doom trio featuring Renan Casarin on guitar and vocals, Fernando Dal Bó on bass, and Pedro Silvano on drums. Their 2023 self-titled debut, recorded at Célula Showcase studios in Florianópolis and produced by Leandro Lazzarotto, delivers seven tracks of heavy, riff-driven doom that circles themes of human fragility and social decay.
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