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Musha is a psychedelic doom and stoner metal project from Cyprus, formed in 2020. Their sound explores the heavier, more lysergic end of the doom spectrum, layering thick fuzz and hypnotic repetition into a trance-inducing sonic weight.
Mushroom Caravan Overdrive is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal act from the Dalarna town of Leksand, active since 2019. The band channels the fungal, nomadic spirit of their sprawling name into heavily psychedelic doom.
Rockford, Illinois duo Mushroom Forager blend stoner fuzz with the glacial tempos of doom metal, conjuring earthy, psychedelic heaviness that feels rooted in the soil of the upper Midwest. Since 2015, they've carved out a niche in the Illinois underground where low-tuned riffs and hazy atmosphere converge.
Athens, Georgia's Music Hates You have been plying their trade in Southern stoner metal since 2011, drawing on the region's blues-soaked heaviness and fusing it with the fuzz-thick, riff-forward sound of the genre. The college town's fertile creative ecosystem has clearly shaped the band's loose, lived-in approach to heavy music.
Brooklyn's Mutoid Man fuse sludge and stoner metal into something swaggering and overpowering — thick, groove-laden riffs married to a rock sensibility that keeps their sound dynamic and weirdly infectious since 2014.
Formed in 2025 in Winchester, Virginia, Muttering Bog dwell in the murky overlap of doom, sludge, and stoner metal, conjuring the kind of slow, oppressive heaviness that matches the name's imagery of still, dark water.
MWWB is a psychedelic stoner, sludge, and doom metal act from Wrexham in North Wales, delivering expansive, mind-altering heaviness since 2021. The band layers psychedelic textures over crushing doom foundations, creating immersive sonic landscapes.
My Master the Sun is a stoner/sludge/doom metal act from Lisbon, active since 2014. The band channels solar worship into heavy, sun-baked compositions from the Portuguese capital.
Nashville's My Wall stacks the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal atop a stoner-rock foundation, building slow-burning riffs soaked in fuzz and Southern grit that grind forward with deliberate, hypnotic heaviness.
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