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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News Posts
Funeral doom titans Evoken announce new album ‘Mendacium’ to be released in October via Profound Lore Records and share a first track with album opener ‘Matins’!
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Relentless death/doom outfit Runemagick returns with brand new studio album ‘Cycle of the Dying Sun (Dawn of Ashen Realms)’ in October via Hammerheart Records and share a first offering with ‘Old Bones’!
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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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Finnish doom metal act Grain Of Pain unveiled a lyric video for the track ‘Can’t Be Fallen’ last week, a track from the recently released debut album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’, out since May via Noble Demon!
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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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NYC death/doom outfit Funeral Leech announced to be releasing their new album ‘The Illusion Of Time’ via Carbonized Records in April and unveiled a new track with ‘Ceaseless Wheel Of Becoming’!
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British death-doom legends My Dying Bride announced their upcoming 15th studio album ‘A Mortal Binding’ to be released in April via Nuclear Blast and shared the new single ‘Thornwyck Hymn’!
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Faroese death/doom outfit Hamferð to release ‘Men Guðs hond er sterk’ album in March via Metal Blade Records and share a first single with ‘Ábær’!
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Album Reviews
“Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration” is dark and crushingly heavy, and stands as a milestone in the band’s discography. Hooded Menace delivers a top performance and songwriting prowess in its most majestic and grandiose form. Out via Season of Mist on October 3rd.
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Japanese death/doom four-piece Coffins return with their most anticipated album “Sinister Oath”, released on March 29th via Relapse Records, and deliver a dark and oppressive piece, highly recommended for fans of Autopsy, Asphyx, and Hooded Menace!
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From Albion’s shores hails ‘The Devil and his Wicked Ways’, the debut album from Roots of the Old Oak’, treating you to some undistilled death doom straight from the nineties. Out on September 15 via Hammerheart Records.
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Dark Descent Records and Extremely Rotten Productions surprised the fans with one of the best split releases of the year. Offering three exclusive songs from Denmark’s death metal outfit Undergang and one monolithic 14-minute track from the U.S. death/doom metal act Spectral Voice.
The U.S. Death/doom act Innumerable Forms avails new methods of mournful doom on the sophomore release ‘Philosophical Collapse’ with guitarist Justin DeTore (Dream Unending) writing some dark death/doom riffs. Out now on Profound Lore, the album comes highly recommended for fans of Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride.
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