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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Mournful Moon is a black and gothic metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020, incorporating ambient elements. They craft dark, atmospheric compositions spanning black metal, gothic metal, and ambient.
Mournful Tears are a black metal act from Guarujá whose lyrical world blends dark poetry, occultism, and metaphorical inner journeys. The band has released material through Occult Moon Records and appeared on a split alongside fellow black metal act Black Angel.
Mourniaty is a black metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2025. They channel dark black metal from the Finnish southeast.
Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.
A New Jersey black/death metal act, this Mourning fuse the cold, tremolo-drenched attack of black metal with death metal's visceral heaviness, forging a harsh and unyielding sound since 2008.
Mourning Angel is a DSBM and blackgaze project from Chomutov, Czech Republic, blending depressive black metal's anguished atmosphere with the shimmering textures of blackgaze. Their releases "Addiction to Selfdestruction" and "Faceless" explore themes of despair and spiritual desolation through layered, emotionally raw compositions.
From the small Ohio town of St. Clairsville, Mourning by Morning have been crafting cold, raw black metal since 2018 — an isolated, atmospheric project that carries the bleakness of the rural Midwest into their compositions.
Greensboro, North Carolina's Mourning Cloak have been dragging doom and sludge into the Southern underground since 2013, pairing monolithic riffs with a feedback-laced heaviness that owes as much to noise as it does to traditional doom.
Mourning Dawn is a black and doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they deliver crushing black-doom from the French capital.
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