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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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Laurel, Montana's Mourning Dust occupy a rare and remote corner of the American underground, blending black metal's rawness with the hazy, psychedelic weight of doom and sludge — music that sounds like the vast Montana landscape turned hostile.
A black metal project from Budapest, Mourning Fog has been crafting dark, atmospheric compositions since 2011. The project channels the mist and melancholy of its name into cold, contemplative black metal.
Mourning Forest is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 2009. They channel dark French black metal from the Occitan capital.
Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.
Minneapolis's Mourning Light weave atmospheric post-metal's expansive dynamics with doom's gravitational pull, crafting music that breathes and collapses in long, emotionally resonant arcs from the heart of the Twin Cities scene.
Mourning Mist is a avant-garde black metal (early); doom metal (later) band from Perugia, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
A Massachusetts depressive black metal project active since 2017, Mourning Moonlight pursue the most introspective and despairing end of the genre — raw, lo-fi, and built around an aching, solitary intensity.
Mourning of the Heretic is a black, death, and doom metal band from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, formed in 2012. They forge extreme metal spanning three of metal's darkest subgenres.
Mourning Path is a blackened death metal band from Parma, Italy, formed in 2024. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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