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My Master the Sun is a stoner/sludge/doom metal act from Lisbon, active since 2014. The band channels solar worship into heavy, sun-baked compositions from the Portuguese capital.
My Silent Wake is a gothic, death, and doom metal band from Weston-super-Mare, England, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, they craft emotionally rich gothic doom-death.
Nashville's My Wall stacks the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal atop a stoner-rock foundation, building slow-burning riffs soaked in fuzz and Southern grit that grind forward with deliberate, hypnotic heaviness.
My Widow is a depressive black/doom metal band from Bryansk, Russia, formed in 2013. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
A brand-new entrant from Seattle's fertile heavy underground, Mycon formed in 2025 and pursues a doom/sludge hybrid rooted in oppressive low-end and glacially paced riffs befitting the gray, rain-soaked Pacific Northwest.
The Connecticut incarnation of Mycorrhizae, based in Ashford and formed in 2023, blends doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's expansive emotional architecture, using long, shifting song structures to evoke the slow patience of underground networks.
Denver doom outfit Mykosterion, founded in 2023, takes their name and mood from the subterranean and the sacred, building slow, ritualistic heavy metal that suits the high-altitude gravity of the Colorado Front Range.
Mylène Sardoom is a sludge and doom metal band from Montpellier, France, formed in 2025. Their playful name belies crushing sludge-doom from the Languedoc region.
Washington State's Myopic defies easy categorization by drawing equally from sludge, black, death, and doom metal, blending these traditions into a dense, multi-layered extremity that has evolved steadily since the band's formation in 2011.
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