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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
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Lexington, Kentucky's Moonsword deal in raw, uncompromising black metal since forming in 2018 — part of a growing underground current in the American heartland pushing the genre's pagan and misanthropic themes.
A stoner metal and rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2023, Moontemple pursue the fuzz-heavy, riff-driven aesthetic where amplifier worship and psychedelic repetition are the primary virtues.
Fresno's Moontrail push sludge metal into stranger territory by incorporating avant-garde elements — dissonant structures, unconventional song forms, and experimental texture — into their heavy foundation since 2013.
From Salem, Massachusetts — a city whose dark folklore is practically built into the soil — Moontroll have practiced an unapologetically raw brand of black metal since 2020, fitting their hometown's grim legacy well.
Ayer, Massachusetts quartet Moosataur have been crafting psychedelic doom and stoner metal since 2013, layering lysergic haze over slow, crushing riffwork in a style that's as trance-inducing as it is heavy.
Out of Gulfport, Mississippi, Moose have been serving up Southern-flavored sludge metal since 2017 — grinding slow and heavy with the humidity-soaked aggression you'd expect from the Gulf Coast.
San Francisco's Moosifer came together in 2024 playing heavy and thrash metal, bringing the Bay Area's storied thrash legacy into conversation with classic heavy metal directness and a healthy dose of self-aware attitude.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Moraia have been fusing groove metal's hard-hitting rhythmic punch with progressive metal's structural ambition since 2022, carving out a niche in the Southeast's developing heavy underground.
A Chicago death metal act founded in 2013, Moral Decay pursue the genre's classic brutal sensibility in a city with a deep underground metal tradition, prioritizing heaviness and aggression over technical flash.
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