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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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From the rural western Massachusetts town of Cummington, Mosslung fuse funeral doom's paralyzing slowness with black metal's icy atmosphere and ambient drone, creating music as desolate and overgrown as the New England woods surrounding them.
Brand new in 2025, Eureka, Missouri's Mosterhaven practice raw atmospheric black metal with folk underpinnings, their debut effort immediately pointing toward windswept, nature-worshipping extremity with an unpolished, DIY conviction.
A heavy metal act from the Dalmatian city of Split, Mostra has been delivering classic metal since 2015. The band channels the Adriatic coast's energy into traditional, riff-heavy compositions.
A heavy metal band from East Flanders, Belgium, whose Bandcamp presence shows a self-described punk hardcore aesthetic delivered in Italian — though their genre listing marks them as heavy metal. Their records include 'Mostropatia', 'Tutto Panx', 'Mostroscopia', and 'Mostrofonia', short and intense in delivery with rock and roll underpinnings.
Atlanta deathcore/death metal act Mosura — named after the iconic kaiju — have been delivering monster-sized low-end punishment and groove-heavy breakdowns since 2017, a fixture in the Georgia extreme metal scene.
Formed in Lutsk, Ukraine in 2015, Motanka blend traditional Ukrainian instruments — including the dulcimer and ocarina — with heavy metal, a style the band describes as "mystic metal." The band's name references the handmade motanka dolls of Ukrainian folk tradition, and their self-titled debut album appeared via Napalm Records in 2019 following a second-place finish at Wacken Open Air Metal Battle in 2018. Their music draws directly on Ukrainian folk heritage, incorporating throat singing alongside conventional metal instrumentation.
Moth Collector is a experimental/ambient (early); doom/gothic metal (later) band from Poland, formed in 2017. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic doom layered with emotional depth.
A doom and sludge metal act from Scotland, Moth Corpse emerged in 2024 with a sound built on crushing, down-tuned riffs and agonized vocals. The band channels the grey, oppressive atmosphere of the Scottish landscape into suffocating heaviness.
North Babylon, Long Island sludge/stoner duo Moth Eater launched in 2023 with a thick, fuzz-drenched sound that punches above its two-piece configuration — heavy, hypnotic, and rooted in the grimy New York underground.
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