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Monte Penumbra is a doom/avant-garde black metal band from Portugal, formed in 2013. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
Born in Longview, Texas, Monte Pittman is a guitarist best known as Madonna's long-standing live bandleader, having joined her touring operation in 2001, while also serving as bassist and composer for Prong and later Ministry. His solo career, launched with The Deepest Dark in 2009, explores hard rock and heavy metal, with seven albums released including the concurrent 2018 releases Between the Space and Better or Worse, which demonstrated the range of his songwriting across aggressive and acoustic styles.
An entirely instrumental trio of guitarist Paulo Tefili, bassist Cainã Almeida, and drummer Roger Benevenutti, Monte Resina move freely between stoner rock, shoegaze, sludge, and post-hardcore without ever settling into a single lane. Their album Aluado Bulimor (2018), recorded at Calamar Sounds in Florianópolis, was followed by the more melodically adventurous Nem Era (2025), cementing the band's reputation for textured, riff-forward instrumental writing.
Montecharge is a stoner metal and rock band from Paris, France, active since 2012. They channel heavy, groove-laden stoner metal from the French capital.
Cleveland's Montez formed in 2021 and play speed/power metal with the breakneck intensity the genre demands — sharp, melodic, and built on a tradition that the Midwest has quietly sustained since the 1980s.
A death metal act from Newhall, California active since 2012, Montezuma operate in the Los Angeles underground with the punishing directness the genre requires — heavy, methodical, and uninterested in subtlety.
Out of Longview, Texas, Monthra have been fusing groove and thrash metal since 2017 with the kind of knuckle-dragging momentum and snapping riff patterns that fit the East Texas industrial corridor they come from.
Montosse was a depressive black metal duo — instrumentalist Astratta and vocalist Érdos — whose music drew heavily from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos, with the band's very name referencing a demon from The Evil Dead. Their 2019 release Pois os Mortos Viajam Depressa... showcased bleak, introspective songwriting that found a home on multiple Brazilian DSBM compilations before the project dissolved.
San Jose's Montra formed in 2011 and blend groove metal and thrash with a hardcore backbone, bringing the Bay Area's deep punk and metal cross-pollination tradition to bear on aggressive, pit-ready material.
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