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Gardendale, Alabama stoner metal act Moth Face have been riffing in the tradition of Southern heaviness since 2015, blending baked-in psychedelia with enough grit to keep their sound from floating too far into the cosmos.
Cincinnati's Moth Priest bring a ritualistic weight to stoner/doom metal, formed in 2021 with a sound that favors glacial tempos and hazy, amplifier-worship aesthetics — part of a quietly active heavy underground in southern Ohio.
Mother Corona is a stoner metal and rock act from the Oxfordshire town of Didcot, delivering fuzz-drenched grooves since 2012. The band channels the hazy energy of classic stoner rock through a distinctly British lens.
Seattle's Mother Crone run a volatile mix of stoner grooves, doom weight, and thrash velocity, formed in 2015 in a city with deep underground metal roots — a band that treats heavy music as something that must also move fast.
Salem, Massachusetts stoner/sludge act Mother Iron Horse bring a fittingly gothic-coastal weight to their sound — formed in 2018 in one of America's most historically charged cities, they deal in slow, smoldering heaviness with an unmistakable New England edge.
Mother Mountain is a stoner and doom metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2014. Their releases From Dust To Ashes and From The Highest Peaks To The Deepest Chasms deliver crushing, riff-heavy doom and stoner metal.
El Segundo, California's Mother Mutiny lean into the psychedelic end of stoner metal, formed in 2020 with a sound built on looping riff hypnosis and fuzz saturation — a SoCal act that treats tone as the primary instrument.
Huntington, West Virginia's Mother of God operate at the extreme slow end of drone/doom metal, a project that emerged from a region with genuine economic bleakness and channels that weight into suffocating, near-static compositions.
Motherfaster is a hard rock and metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in late 2011 by three collaborators bent on extracting 'the dirtiest side of their souls.' Their discography includes a self-titled album and 'Slower Father,' with tracks spanning aggressive rock territory from 'Sinnerman' to 'Zombies in the Disco.'
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