Doom metallers Sickwood announce debut album and share first single

From the depths of Rome, a new beast crawls into the light: Italian three-piece SICKWOOD have officially announced their debut full-length album “May the Surface Be Condemned”, set for worldwide release on November 20 via This Charming Man Records. To mark the announcement, the band has unleashed the crushing first track, entitled ‘Sickwood’, as debut single.

Formed in 2024, SICKWOOD conjure a sound they call ‘Necromantic Stoner-Doom’: thick, sludgy, and crushingly heavy, carried by walls of Orange amps and dense, persistent fuzz. Over this low-end, shadow-drenched instrumental landscape, a female voice moves effortlessly between hauntingly clean melodies and feral growls.

Lyrically, the band draws listeners into a world suspended between the psychedelic and the monstrous; a dark, metaphor-laden critique of the modern world system, inhabited by chthonic deities and enchanted woods.

Born from a fateful meeting between Maurizio Fabio Fama (guitars) and Mara Sverdrup (bass/vocals) in December 2024, the lineup was completed when Valerio Urbani (drums) joined on drums in September 2025. After a series of live shows in their hometown of Rome, the trio entered the studio to record the band’s full-length album.

Tracklist:

01. Vultures
02. Sickwood
03. N.N. …
04. Persefone
05. Ecate
06. Furies Wrath

“May the Surface Be Condemned” was mixed and mastered by renowned sound architect Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance), with visually arresting artwork provided by Coito Negato.

With “May the Surface Be Condemned”, SICKWOOD establish themselves as one of the most promising new voices in the Italian doom scene – heavy, eerie, and uncompromising. The album arrives on November 20 via This Charming Man Records, and will be available for pre-order starting September 25.