Long Island sludge metal trio Restless Spirit unleashed video single ‘Marrow’ from upcoming album ‘Afterimage’, set for release via Magnetic Eye Records in October!

UK doom metallers Godthrymm are getting ready to release their new album ‘Distortions’ via Profound Lore Records next month and unleashed another single with ‘Devils’!

Static Abyss’ second full-length “Aborted from Reality” invokes such horror and treads into the style of morbid crusty death doom metal, Chris Reifert and Greg Wilkinson have successfully created a filthy and sordid amalgam of slow death doom metal. Out via Peaceville Records!

Pictures of Imperial Triumphant, Electric Callboy and Urne on the third day of Tuska 2023.

Belgian death doom act My Lament sign to Ardua Music and announce their upcoming new album ‘The Season Came Undone’ to be released in September, the first in over a decade!

Finnish doom rock outfit The Abbey released a live video for ‘Starless’ to celebrate the launch of the vinyls for their debut album ‘World of Sin’, out via Season of Mist!

Smoulder’s sophomore record ‘Violent Creed of Vengeance’ continues the epic quest of this Canadian-Finnish fellowship through the realm of epic heavy metal doom. Out via Cruz Del Sur Music.

A true challenge for him, our photographer went to capture the performance art that is a live show of HIDE at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki a couple of months ago, with support from Keretik!

HIDE is easily the most oppressive, yet mesmerizing live performance I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing, and a couple of months ago at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki I got another chance of being blown away by them. Support came from the gloomy metalpunk locals of Keretik.

Phlebotomized’s fourth album ‘Clouds of Confusion’ is balanced between the classic nineties style of atmospheric and melodic death metal which generates a gloomy, nostalgic mood. Their music might have changed over the years, but the band still sounds fresh and unique. Out via Hammerheart Records.