Finnish Hooded Menace released their crushing take on Duran Duran’s classic hit ‘Save a Prayer’, which is featured on their upcoming new album ‘Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration’, set for release in October via Season of Mist!
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Finnish death/doom mastodons Hooded Menace reawaken classic horror on new single ‘Pale Masquerade’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration’, set for release in October via Season of Mist!
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After 1914 had to cancel their tour due to the situation in Ukraine, they were now able to announce their return with a limited Summer tour through Europe with stops in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Romania and Austria!
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Indigenous death/doom metal act Tzompantli to release their second LP ‘Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force’ via 20 Buck Spin in May and unleashed a first track with ‘Tlayohualli’!
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British death/doom legends My Dying Bride shared the new single & video ‘The 2nd Of Three Bells’, another track from their upcoming 15th studio album ‘A Mortal Binding’, set for release in April via Nuclear Blast!
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Spectral Voice shared the details on their upcoming sophomore album ‘Sparagmost’, including a release date on February 9th, 2024 via Dark Descent Records and a track stream for ‘Red Feasts Condensed into One’!
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Belgian death/doom metallers My Lament shared a brand-new video for ‘My Mausoleum’, a track from their recently released album ‘The Season Came Undone’, out via Ardua Music!
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Swedish death/doom mavericks October Tide unveiled the most stand-out track ‘Blodfattig’ from their upcoming album ‘The Cancer Pledge’, set for release next month via Agonia Records!
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Swedish death/doom veterans October Tide unveiled the first single ‘Tapestry of Our End’ from their upcoming album ‘The Cancer Pledge’, set for release in October via Agonia Records!
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Sporae Autem Yuggoth promises a proper slab of old school death/doom with their debut album ‘However It Still Moves’, set for release in May via Personal Records and unveiled a first track with ‘Disintegration’!
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Album Reviews
Third studio album “Pain Effulgence” of Boston, Massachusetts death doom quartet Innumerable Forms is a crushing iteration of the classic sound of British and Finnish melancholic bands. Out now via Profound Lore Records since August 22nd.
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The Southamerican natives of Tzompantli presents an authentic and eerie ritualistic sound of the pre-Hispanic culture on their sophomore record ‘Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force’. Out on 20 Buck Spin.
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On their full-length debut album “Mass Grave Horizon” Portland, Oregan quartet Excarnated Entity delivers am oppressive slab of crushing death/doom metal. The album was released on September 8th, via Nuclear Winter Records.
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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!
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”Viscera” is a sonic nightmare sustained by the abrasive elements of blackened death doom, Strigoi depicts utter bleakness and redefines its style where the band takes a logical step forward from the debut album. Released via Season of Mist.
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Denmark’s trio Dead Void debuts its first studio album ‘Volatile Forms’ which offers a primitive and sluggish death doom take on this sub-genre, if you are into classic albums of 90’s doom metal then this is for you. Out via Me Saco Un Ojo and Dark Descent Records on September 15.
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Ataraxy’s third studio album ‘A Mirror Reflects Our Fate’ cements the atmospheric framework of their suspenseful sensations of death/doom, coming highly recommended for fans of Disembowelment, Krypts and Spectral Voice. Out on Dark Descent Records.
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The 4th album “Summoning the Slayer” of the Michigan-based death/doom act Temple of Void delivers the crushing heaviness of old school death/doom. Temple of Void now seems to tread solemnly amidst their peers, with songs that will envelop the listener with gloomy melodies, ominous growls, heavy pacied drums and brooding guitars.
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Southern California indigenous death/doom metal trio Tzompantli’s first full-length album ‘Tlazcaltiliztli’ is a soul-crushing album, inspired by the likes of Disembowelment, Evoken and The Ruins of Beverast. The entirety of the album reflects on the ancient traditions of human sacrifice and epics of war that invoke the primordial roots of Native American cultural themes.
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Everlasting Spew Records releases a top notch split album that features new rising death metal acts like Ritual Necromancy and Fossilization.
