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Heavy duo from Norwich featuring Jade Ashleigh Squires and Thom Longdin, blending doom, sludge, drone, and psychedelic elements since 2018 on Church Road Records. Their albums Here Lies Kulk, We Spare Nothing, and It Gets Worse build atmospheric, crushing compositions from a deceptively minimal two-piece setup.
Chicago's Lijde move through cavernous drone and doom with an ambient patience, stretching grief into slow-burning, meditative walls of sound since 2017.
Lexington's Lurking drag black metal into sludge and drone territory, piling glacial riffs on top of one another until the weight becomes its own kind of violence. Since 2016 they've made suffocation feel ceremonial.
German project from Dresden that evolved from black metal origins in 2018 into ambient/drone/stoner/doom territory. Their genre-shifting approach spans the full spectrum from extreme metal hostility to meditative, atmospheric heaviness.
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.
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