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Misanthrofeel is a experimental industrial metal (early); funeral doom/death metal (later) band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2009. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Portland, Maine's Misery are practitioners of the most desolate strain of funeral doom, stretching compositions to glacial lengths and burying melody beneath layers of crushing weight, operating at the far, airless margins of the genre since 2003.
MistGuide is a doom metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2010, having evolved from funeral doom into blackened doom metal. Their stylistic shift reflects a creative deepening from glacial funeral doom to more aggressive, blackened territory.
A funeral death-doom metal band from Belgium signed to Aesthetic Death, formed in 2011 by a five-piece lineup committed to a sound they described as crushing and heavy, deliberately removed from the romantic side of the genre. Their debut cassette 'Intellectus Iudicat Veritatem' sold out fifty copies in six days, and their follow-up full-length 'IVIIV' (2017) delivered fifty minutes of devastating slow riffs and melancholic atmosphere across four extended compositions.
Monolithe is a funeral doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003, having evolved toward melodic death and doom metal. Their pioneering approach to expansive, monolithic doom compositions has made them one of France's most respected extreme doom acts.
A New England drone/funeral doom project active since 2005, Monument of Urns specialize in extreme slowness and oppressive atmosphere — long-form compositions where texture and tonal weight matter more than conventional song structure.
One of the longer-running black metal acts in Southern California, Santa Ana's Mordor have maintained their dark vision since 1994 — an impressive run for the Los Angeles area underground. Their name, drawn from Tolkien's realm of shadow, anchors them in the mythological and fantastical tradition of early European black metal.
From the rural western Massachusetts town of Cummington, Mosslung fuse funeral doom's paralyzing slowness with black metal's icy atmosphere and ambient drone, creating music as desolate and overgrown as the New England woods surrounding them.
Mourners is a funeral doom metal band from Timișoara, Romania, formed in 2017. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
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