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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/21 @ 170 Russell, Melbourne
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Evidence (2023)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Winfield, Illinois thrash act Mourning Reign have been at it since 2001, bringing a Midwest work ethic to aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal that stays faithful to the genre's classic aggressive blueprint.
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