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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Los Angeles progressive groove metal outfit Mountainhead approach heaviness with a rhythmic sophistication that separates them from the genre's more straightforward practitioners, weaving syncopated groove into ambitious, shifting song structures. Formed in 2016, they represent a more cerebral and technically adventurous corner of the LA metal scene.
Mr. Hygh is a sludge/groove metal/hardcore band from Busto Arsizio (Varese), Italy, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing, abrasive sludge metal.
Townsend, Massachusetts' Mucklers Circle carve out an unusual niche by mixing Southern metal swagger with New England-forged groove and metalcore aggression, resulting in a genre-blurring take on heavy music that has no business working as well as it does since 2015.
Mudpusher is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Sundbyberg, Sweden, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A groove, death, and thrash metal band from Namur, Belgium, active from 2010 to 2017 as an independent act. Their lyrical focus on gore, accident, and violence placed them within the abrasive end of the Belgian extreme metal underground, combining the rhythmic punch of groove metal with death metal aggression.
Muerto en Vida is a hardcore/grindcore/crossover/thrash band from Jódar, Spain, formed by members of Cabeza de Caballo, Death Whisper my Name, and Infecto. Their self-titled release and 'El Pacto' deliver aggressive, genre-blending extremity from the Spanish underground.
Mufunta is a sludge, stoner, and groove metal act from Stoke-on-Trent, formed in 2025. The band brings heavy, riff-driven grooves to the Potteries with a sound that draws from the best of NOLA sludge and southern groove.
Mugshot is a groove metal band from Germany, formed in 2014. They channel heavy groove metal energy through crushing rhythms and aggressive vocal delivery.
Seymour, Connecticut's Murder Castle blend the mid-paced crush of doom metal with groove metal's punchy, riff-driven momentum, landing somewhere between funeral-paced misery and headbang-ready swagger. Active since 2012, they're one of the more distinct voices in New England's heavy underground.
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