Doom Metal

Mortualia – Wild, Wild Misery Review

By Lord Lucan on December 1, 2016 in 2016, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Drone, Finnish Metal, Moribund Records, Reviews, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Drone, 19 comments

“Here’s a sage piece of life advice you can have for free: always carefully check what you’ve typed into your Google search bar before hitting ‘enter.’ I recently fell foul of this little rule while researching ‘depressive suicidal black metal’ (or ‘DSBM’) for the purposes of writing this review. Unless you’re feeling particularly brave, you’ll just have to take my word for it that while DSBM and BDSM might look similar, they are definitely not the same thing. I learned this the hard way.” Are we still doing phrasing?

Root – Kärgeräs – Return from Oblivion Review

By Dr. A.N. Grier on November 30, 2016 in 2016, Agonia Records, Black Metal, Czech Metal, Doom Metal, Reviews, Black Metal, Doom Metal, 17 comments

“After years of meandering through the comments section as your friendly neighborhood bone-saw (and before as another beloved reader), I’ve had the pleasure of sparing with many of you, upsetting the tight-ass AMG HR department, and making fun of Diabolus for his bad taste in music. Somewhere in the last couple years, one of you recommended Root to me and forever changed my life.” Report to HR to get your life re-changed.

Worm Ouroboros – What Graceless Dawn Review

By Steel Druhm on November 30, 2016 in 2016, Ambient Metal, American Metal, Doom Metal, Folk Metal, Gothic Metal, Not Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Doom Metal, Not Metal, 24 comments

“The San Francisco music scene is nothing if not creative. With oddball acts like Hammers of Misfortune, Vhöl and Slough Feg calling the area home, creativity is in abundant supply. Worm Ouroboros is yet another off-kilter act providing local color to the Bay Area, lesser known but no less interesting. The brain-trust of Lorraine Rath and Jessica Way, the band’s unique blend of dark ambient goth-rock, doom and neo-folk is as interesting as it is offbeat.” Bay Area goth-waves are rising.

Bethlehem – Bethlehem Review

By Madam X on November 29, 2016 in 2016, Black Metal, Doom Metal, German Metal, Industrial Metal, International Metal, Polish Metal, Prophecy Productions, Reviews, Russian Metal, Uncategorized, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Industrial Metal, 26 comments

“With Christmas just around the corner, it gives me wry amusement that Bethlehem are about to unleash their latest slab of blackened thrash on the unsuspecting masses. Tis the season and Bethlehem are in a very giving kind of mood!” Grim yule tidings.

Heavydeath – In Circles We Die Review

By Mark Z. on November 26, 2016 in 2016, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Iron Bonehead Productions, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 20 comments

“Naming your doom metal band Heavydeath is like naming your cat “Whiskers McPussyface,” but somehow this Swedish trio manages to pull it off. In early 2015 these former Runemagick members quite impressed me with debut Eternal Sleepwalker, at least enough that I actually bothered to check out a few of the motherfucking 16 demos, EPs, and compilations the band released since forming just three years ago.” Slowprolific.

Hornss – Telepath Review

By GardensTale on November 25, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Doom Metal, Reviews, Ripple Music, Stoner Rock, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, 14 comments

“You wouldn’t know it by my amazing metal cred, but I’m actually a huge nerd. And, as such, it seems to be my moral obligation to watch British sci-fi staple Doctor Who religiously. It’s a campy affair with loads of creatures and concepts that seem to have been invented by someone going “what if…“ and constructing entire episodes around that.” Destroy! Destroy!

Green Bastard – Pyre Review

By GardensTale on November 19, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Doom Metal, Midnight Werewolf Records, Reviews, Doom Metal, Stoner Metal, 34 comments

“Reviewing is not a complicated process. We listen to a promo album the same way an average listener would, with our heart and gut, gauging our emotional state during each separate song and the album as a whole. Aside from that, we analyze from a more clinical point of view, weighing factors like originality, history, and experience of the band, the skill of individual members, and production quality. We weigh all the good against all the bad like Anubis and his feather, but every now and then an album comes along that doesn’t seem to have any flaws.” The reviewing game is not for the squeamish.

Soulburn – Earthless Pagan Spirit Review

By Grymm on November 17, 2016 in 2016, Black Metal, Century Media, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Dutch Metal, Reviews, Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 19 comments

“Soulburn, despite the lack of output over the last two decades, possesses quite the rich history. Starting off as the successor to death/doom overlords Asphyx in 1996 before they returned in 2010, drummer Bob Bagchus adopted the Soulburn name again in 2013 in a project featuring fellow Asphyx member Eric Daniels and Swedish one-man death-metal factory, Rogga Johansson.” No Rogga, no peace!

Spiritus Mortis – The Year is One Review

By Steel Druhm on November 15, 2016 in 2016, Doom Metal, Finnish Metal, Reviews, Svart Records, Doom Metal, 47 comments

“This has been a really good year for doom, with Khemmis, Messa and Northern Crown dropping stellar platters of mawkish mopery, and Spiritus Mortis wants to help send 2016 out with even more funereal notes and appropriately bowed heads. This Finnish doom troupe has been around a while and The Year is One is their fourth album, but somehow I’ve slept on them and am just coming to grips with their material.” The Year is Yuge.

Trees of Eternity – Hour of the Nightingale Review

By Steel Druhm on November 8, 2016 in 2016, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, International Metal, Reviews, Svart Records, Doom Metal, 30 comments

“Life is fleeting, sometimes cruel and always impossible to predict. Case in point – the circumstances surrounding the Hour of the Nightingale debut by Trees of Eternity – a project formed by Juha Raivio (Swallow the Sun) and his partner Aleah Liane Stanbridge. Prior to Trees, Aleah was best known for her vocal work on Swallow the Sun’s Songs of the North and Amorphis’ Under the Red Cloud. Trees’ and its melodic quasi-doom style was designed to showcase Aleah’s vocal talents and take her career to the next level.” What might have been.