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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Monkeypriest is a sludge, doom, and death metal power trio from Seville, Spain, active since 2009. Their releases including Defending the Tree, The Psalm, and a split with Fistula deliver crushing sludge-doom with death metal undertones.
Monmuuth is a sludge/doom metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2015. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Monna is a sludge, doom, and post-metal band from the Pendle District of England, formed in 2014. They craft atmospheric, crushing compositions from the Lancashire countryside.
Monolithian is a blackened sludge metal band from Falmouth, England, formed in 2012. They fuse blackened fury with crushing sludge from the Cornish coast.
Monoliths is a drone, sludge, and doom metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2016. They craft monolithic drone-sludge-doom from the East Midlands.
A grindcore and sludge metal act from the Yorkshire town of Selby, Morality Sanctions has been grinding out aggressive, socially conscious compositions since 2017. The band channels political frustration into short, punishing bursts of noise.
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.
Morbus Kinski is a sludge metal four-piece from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2019, self-described as "bluntforce sludge on the wrong medication." Their releases Idiocracy and Blunt Force Boogey deliver crushing, confrontational sludge metal with an unhinged, violent edge.
A sludge metal act from Athens, More Abused formed in 2023 with a sound built on crushing, abrasive heaviness. The band brings the punishing weight of sludge to the Greek capital's underground.
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