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Mooncroft is a gothic doom metal band from Belarus, formed in 2020 that channels slow, mournful riffs through a lens of gothic darkness and atmospheric weight. Their sound dwells in the heavy, reverb-drenched spaces where doom metal meets gothic romanticism.
Moonfall is a black and doom metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2011. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom metal's glacial weight.
Founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1989 as Morbid God before adopting the Moonspell name in 1992, the band grew from black metal origins into one of gothic metal's most enduring acts. Their debut album Wolfheart (1995) and follow-up Irreligious (1996) established their blend of atmospheric gothic metal with folk and black metal elements, and 2006's Memorial became the first Portuguese metal album to be certified Gold. The concept album 1755 (2017), sung entirely in Portuguese, recounts the devastating Lisbon earthquake and is considered among their most ambitious works.
MoonWay is a gothic, doom, and death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Belarusian extreme metal underground. Their sound interweaves the crushing weight of doom and death metal with gothic melodicism, building dense and sorrowful compositions across nearly three decades of activity.
Moose Cult is a heavy and doom metal act from London, formed in 2023 with a sound that blends crushing doom weight with traditional heavy metal hooks. The band's animal-worshipping name hints at a playful approach within an otherwise heavy framework.
Mor is a hardcore (early); death/doom metal (later) band from Liberec, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Morast is a blackened doom and death metal band from the Düsseldorf-Wuppertal-Cologne region of Germany, formed in 2017. Their catalog spans releases like Ancestral Void and The Palingenesis, channeling oppressive doom through a blackened death metal filter.
Morbicus is a death and doom metal band from Wimborne Minster, England, formed in 2014. They craft crushing doom-death from the Dorset countryside.
Morbid Evils is a sludge, doom, and death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel crushing extremity through the unholy convergence of sludge, doom, and death metal.
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