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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Madness Blues is a blackened funeral doom metal and drone band from Greece, formed in 2023. They craft crushing, glacially paced extremity at the intersection of funeral doom and drone.
Malasangre is a sludge, drone, and funeral doom metal band from Voghera, Italy, formed in 2019. Their Italian name meaning "bad blood" captures the suffocating heaviness of their drone-doom.
Manhir is a drone and doom metal band from Alton, England, formed in 2013. They craft crushing drone-doom compositions built on sustained heaviness and repetition.
Mardröm is a black/doom metal and drone project from Stolzenau, Germany, formed in 2024. Their sound occupies the suffocating intersection of black metal's frigid atmosphere, doom's crushing weight, and drone's hypnotic repetition.
Marzuraan is a drone and doom metal band from Gateshead, England, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, they deliver crushing drone-doom from northeast England.
Mashu is a drone doom and sludge metal band from Salamanca, Spain, formed in 2021. They craft crushing, ultra-slow compositions built on droning repetition and sludge metal's abrasive weight.
Massive Bereavement is a drone and doom metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2013. They craft monolithic drone-doom compositions from the northwest of England.
Medal House is a drone and doom metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2019. They craft immersive drone-doom from the Scottish capital.
Metatomb is a funeral doom metal/drone band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2025. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
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