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North East, Maryland's Mythosphere traffic in the slow, haze-soaked intersection of doom and stoner metal, built on heavy riffs and a loose, psychedelic weight. Active since 2022, the band leans into the hypnotic repetition and fuzz-heavy tones that define the stoner doom sound.
Oklahoma City's Mywitchmyblood drag black metal's icy menace through the swamp of sludge and doom, producing something slow, ugly, and corrosive since 2017. The three-genre collision gives the band a distinctly Southern gothic weight uncommon in the region's extreme metal scene.
MÜL is a funeral doom metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2001. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Mábura is an instrumental psychedelic stoner/doom metal trio from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2019, known for fuzz-heavy riffs and ritualistic atmospheres. The band released the EP "Heni" in August 2020 and contributed the track "Bong of God" to the compilation "Doomed & Stoned: The Instrumentalists" (2021); they later collaborated with Lagarto Rei on the two-song instrumental EP "Abyssopelagic."
Mães Morrendo is a doom metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2019 as a solo endeavour by multi-instrumentalist Melissa Ângela, who also performs with Dirty Grave and the psychedelic doom band Melissa. The project blends doom metal with sludge, grunge, and rap influences, building a catalogue that includes releases such as "Corrosivo", "Hemorragia Social", and "Água-viva". By 2024 the project had expanded into a full power-trio lineup with Neli on drums and Bárbara Guieiro on bass.
Mädätys is a doom and death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2022. Their Finnish name meaning "rot" or "decay" captures the putrid heaviness of their doom-death compositions.
Mæntis is a doom and stoner metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, formed in 2015, delivering crushing sludgy doom. Their debut I Have Tasted Devil's Blood and follow-up To Become King showcase their brand of punishing, low-tuned devastation.
Mærer is a experimental black/doom/post-metal band from Bernburg (Saale), Germany, formed in 2021. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Mên Scryfa is a doom metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2013. Named after the ancient Cornish standing stone, they deliver monolithic doom of ancient weight.
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