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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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Indianapolis death/doom act Mother of Graves have been one of the more compelling newer voices in melodic death-doom since forming in 2019 — their sound draws on the Finnish tradition of grief-soaked melody without merely imitating it.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania's Mother of Mercy have been fusing thrash metal aggression with metalcore structure since 2008 — a band that built its name on relentless live shows and a blunt, no-frills approach to extreme music.
Mother ov Light is a black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2022. The project channels the paradox of light-themed imagery into cold, atmospheric black metal.
Erie, Pennsylvania crossover thrash act Mother Ship have been riding the circle pit circuit since 2012, delivering fast, aggressively fun music that owes equal debts to early Suicidal Tendencies and the East Coast hardcore scene.
Mother Superior is a gothic and doom metal band from the UK, formed in 2022. They blend gothic metal's dark romanticism with doom's oppressive weight.
Mother Susurrus is a psychedelic sludge and post-metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2010. They fuse psychedelic textures with crushing sludge and post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Mother Tenebris is a gothic metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2024. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal from northern Finland.
A psychedelic doom metal and rock act from Odesa, Mother Witch has been crafting heavy, occult-tinged compositions since 2014. The band channels the witchcraft imagery of their name into thick, hazy doom from the Ukrainian port city.
Boston sludge metal institution Motherboar have been a persistent presence in the New England underground since 2011, built on crusty, feedback-laced heaviness and the kind of colossal bottom-end that makes floors shake at small venues.
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