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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Monastr is a sludge and post-metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2019. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics from the Mediterranean port city.
Monkeypriest is a sludge, doom, and death metal power trio from Seville, Spain, active since 2009. Their releases including Defending the Tree, The Psalm, and a split with Fistula deliver crushing sludge-doom with death metal undertones.
Monmuuth is a sludge/doom metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2015. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Monna is a sludge, doom, and post-metal band from the Pendle District of England, formed in 2014. They craft atmospheric, crushing compositions from the Lancashire countryside.
Based in Mission, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, Monodyssey bring a heavy sludge metal sound to a region not typically associated with the genre, grinding out thick, abrasive riffs since forming in 2022.
Grinding Progressive Sludge Metal from Denton.
Philadelphia's sludge metal outfit Monolith have been delivering slow, crushing heaviness since 1993, drawing on the city's dense underground to produce music steeped in grit and abrasive, downtuned power.
A long-running post-metal and sludge outfit from Cortland, New York, Monolith have been building slow, crushing soundscapes since 1993, channeling the weight of upstate isolation into feedback-drenched, deliberate riffs.
Monolithian is a blackened sludge metal band from Falmouth, England, formed in 2012. They fuse blackened fury with crushing sludge from the Cornish coast.
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