Hanging Garden

Hanging Garden – The Garden Review

Hanging Garden – The Garden Review

By Steel Druhm on March 24, 2023 in Reviews, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 29 comments

“Hanging Garden is that “other” Finnish melodic doom-death act that often gets overshadowed by the likes of Amorphis, Insomnium, and Omnium Gatherum. They’ve been around since 2004 and cranking out gothy melo-doom since 2007, and though they’ve been somewhat inconsistent over their career, the last few albums have been quite good with great moments scattered about. I was especially impressed by 2021s Skeleton Lake, which delivered exactly the kind of weepy, sadboi doom death I appreciate.” Hanging in the garden of sadz.

Stuck in the Filter – June’s Angry Misses

Stuck in the Filter – June’s Angry Misses

By Kenstrosity on July 8, 2021 in Blog Posts, Stuck in the Filter, Death Metal, Melodic Metal, Metalcore, Nu Metal, Progressive Metal, Rap Metal, Thrash Metal, 47 comments

“So here’s a segment you all likely are too young to remember/never thought you’d see again. And it comes from the most unlikely source to boot—me! I discovered this feature through one of our monthly staff review calls/execution ceremonies, and I thought it was a shame we don’t use it more often. This comes on the back of a month where many of us were swamped with life events, massive overtime at work, and other such stressors. Naturally, we missed a bunch of releases, both ones we received promo for and ones we didn’t.” No filter!

Vassafor – To the Death Review

Vassafor – To the Death Review

By Dear Hollow on August 6, 2020 in Reviews, Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 13 comments

“The band sport a Mitochondrion or Adversarial styled take on death/black metal with a thrashy assault-heavy relentlessness combined with eldritch melodies and passages of doomy ominousness. These New Zealanders laid it on thick with 2012’s double LP The Obsidian Codex, expertly balancing relentless blackened death with ritualistic atmosphere and dense doom to create an experience that felt far shorter than its immense hour-and-thirty-five-minute runtime suggested. Enter 2017’s Malediction, which wasn’t… that. While offering a “shorter” listen at fifty-four minutes, it never managed to truly escape the doomy drudgery and wallowed in uneventfulness for nearly an hour. Enter 2020’s To the Death.” Death be not quick.

Hanging Garden – Into That Good Night Review

Hanging Garden – Into That Good Night Review

By Master of Muppets on November 12, 2019 in 2019, Doom Metal, Finnish Metal, Gothic Metal, Lifeforce Records, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Doom Metal, 26 comments

“Evermore difficult to believe has been my luck in the ongoing war against the promo bin. Despite multiple attempts to lower my less than angry rating average, including seeking out non-atmoblack/Muppetcore albums or else surrendering my fate to Steel like a damn N00b, I somehow just keep wading out from the promo sump smelling like roses. This brings us nicely to my main point, being that I can’t believe that Dr. Fisting turned down the opportunity to drop everything and craft an unpaid review for Into That Good Night, the sixth album by Finland’s Hanging Garden.” Shaking fists at gardens in the sky.

Hanging Garden – At Every Door Review

Hanging Garden – At Every Door Review

By Dr. Fisting on January 21, 2013 in 2.5, 2013, Doom Metal, Finnish Metal, Gothic Metal, Lifeforce Records, Rating, Reviews, 9 comments

As I write this, it’s 15 degrees Celsius outside. The sun rises, but does not provide any warmth. Everything in my world is covered in a thin layer of ice, and things seem to be moving very slowly. In other words: it’s cold as shit out here. This is the perfect weather for some gloomy, atmospheric, slow-ass metal. And it just so happens that I have At Every Door, the new album by Finnish sextet Hanging Garden.