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Death Atlas (2019)
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MotherSloth is a stoner, doom, and sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2008. Their extensive catalog spans releases from Moribund Star to Death Flower, delivering crushing doom-sludge with stoner metal's hazy grooves.
MotherStone is a groove metal act from Rome, active since 2015. The band delivers thick, rhythmically charged compositions with a monolithic weight suggested by their name.
Mothertrucker is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Birmingham, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they deliver crushing stoner-sludge-doom from the West Midlands.
A heavy metal act from Rome, Motherwhig has been delivering riff-driven compositions since 2011. The band contributes to the Italian capital's extensive traditional metal scene.
Motherwood is a two-person atmospheric black metal project built around the guitar, vocals, and songwriting of Guilherme Malosso, with Yuri Camargo providing synthesizers and ambient texture. The project has steadily grown in ambition, moving from the raw introspection of their 2017 self-titled debut through the dense, depression-steeped atmospheres of "Im Zeichen der Dunkelheit" (2023) and "A Fading Elegy" (2024).
Philadelphia stoner/doom outfit Mothman and the Thunderbirds mine American cryptid mythology for atmosphere, wrapping their heavy riffs in an occult Appalachian mystique that feels right at home in the city's heavy music scene. Formed in 2020, the band traffics in slow, smoky heaviness with a taste for the strange.
Charleston, South Carolina's Mothmother smash sludge metal and grindcore into a volatile collision of punishment and noise, channeling the coastal South's heat and humidity into bursts of chaotic, caustic heaviness. Active since 2017, they are one of the more abrasive and uncompromising acts to emerge from the Lowcountry underground.
Mothra is a thrash metal act from Caserta near Naples, named after the legendary kaiju moth monster since 2011. The band channels B-movie monster energy into aggressive, riff-heavy thrash.
Salt Lake City's Mothspawn are a fresh-formed outfit that fuses gothic rock atmospherics with traditional heavy metal, carving out a dark, melodically rich niche in Utah's metal scene. Founded in 2025, they bring a nocturnal, theatrical quality to their metal that sets them apart from the region's harder-edged contemporaries.
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