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Gulfport, Mississippi doom/sludge outfit Mountain of Beard have been hauling Gulf Coast heaviness into their music since 2012, layering suffocating low-end sludge with the oppressive humidity of the Deep South. Their name leans into the genre's irreverence while the music leans toward punishment.
A psychedelic doom metal act from Wrocław, Mountain of Misery has been crafting heavy, mind-expanding compositions since 2023. The band channels the desolation of their name into crushing, hallucinatory doom.
Sci-fi doom trio built around a pedal steel guitar run through heavy effects. Albums are thematically rooted in Blade Runner, with songs named after characters from the film.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania's Mountain Shadow are a newly formed (2024) project spanning an unusually wide stylistic range — atmospheric black metal, folk metal, death metal, doom, and death-doom — suggesting a band intent on using the full palette of extreme metal rather than settling into a single lane. The project's scope and ambition make it one of the more intriguing recent arrivals in the Pennsylvania underground.
West Virginia's Mountain Sludge Revival plant their music firmly in the coalfields and hollows of the Mountain State, channeling the region's hardscrabble working-class character into punishing, feedback-drenched sludge metal. Formed in 2017 out of Montana Mines, they are one of the few metal acts to claim West Virginia's small-town underground as a home base.
Los Angeles progressive groove metal outfit Mountainhead approach heaviness with a rhythmic sophistication that separates them from the genre's more straightforward practitioners, weaving syncopated groove into ambitious, shifting song structures. Formed in 2016, they represent a more cerebral and technically adventurous corner of the LA metal scene.
Winter Haven, Florida's MountainOvDawn have been delivering fuzz-heavy stoner metal from the Florida interior since 2015, bringing the region's oppressive heat and flatland weirdness to a sound more commonly associated with desert landscapes. They are a distinctive voice in a Florida heavy music scene dominated by death metal and grindcore.
A black metal act from Leeds, Mountains Crave has been crafting atmospheric compositions since 2014. The band channels the windswept Yorkshire landscape into expansive, nature-inspired black metal.
A stoner metal act from the oil city of Stavanger, Mountains of Mars has been delivering extraterrestrial groove since 2013. The band channels the red planet's desolate landscapes into heavy, psychedelic compositions.
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