News Posts

Finland’s gothic/doom shapeshifters Hanging Garden shared the first single from their upcoming EP ‘Citylight Seassons’, set for release in April via Agonia Records. Watch the video that comes along with the new rendition of ‘The Fireside’ now!

Finnish sludge doom metal band Earthblood is set to release their 2nd EP ‘Witchburner’ via Inverse Records in April and shared first single ‘Sons of Heavy Rain’!

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’!

High On Fire shared an official video for their earlier released single ‘Burning Down’, a track from their upcoming new album ‘Cometh the Storm’, set for release in April via MNRK Heavy!

Portuguese doom act Sinistro signs with Alma Mater Records for their next album ‘Vértice’ (out in September) and shared a first video single with ‘Pontas Soltas’!

Greek occult doom/heavy metal outfit Saturday Night Satan shared the video single ‘Devil in Disguise’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘All Things Black’, set for release at the end of this month via Made of Stone Recordings! Fans of artists like Ghost, Lucifer or Witchcraft may want to pay attention!

Brume shared the emotional roller-coaster ride that is the track ‘New Sadder You’, from their upcoming album ‘Marten’, set for release in May via Magnetic Eye Records!

L.A. death/doom quintet Civerous shares the crushing single ‘Shrouded In Crystals’ in anticipation of the release of their new album ‘Maze Envy’ via 20 Buck Spin on March 22nd!

Finnish-Australian metal quartet The Eternal signed to Reigning Phoenix Music for the release of ‘Skinwalker’, their first new album in 6 years. Pre-save their upcoming single ‘Death Like Silence’ now!

Finnish melodic death/doom metal outfit The Harbinger released a first single and music video ‘Hollow’ from their upcoming ‘Gates of Hell’ EP, set for release later this year via Inverse Records!

Album Reviews

20 Buck Spin brings forth the full-length album “Chytridiomycosis Relinquished” of the Est Yorkshire death doom quintet Slimelord. The seven epic songs reach the peaks of innovative composition defining the mysteriousness of the music, out since last Friday!

Kings of cavernous death doom Spectral Voice return with one of the year’s most monolithic albums. “Sparagmos” borders into the spectral realms and portrays the band’s unique take in a more crushing and dismal manner, released via Dark Descent Records on February 9th.

Montréal-based death metal band Phobocosm shows great intellect in blending the modern dissonance with cavernous death doom style. The third album “Foreordained” was released via Dark Descent Records yesterday, December 8th.

20 Buck Spin presents the latest split album “Starpath”, unfolding the blissful serene and grim nature of Dream Unending and Worm in a special release, integrating the light side of yin and the dark side of yang in a beautiful symmetry. Out on November 24th.

After embedding their sound in the realms of blackened death/doom, U.K.’s quartet Strigoi returns with a short EP “Bathed in A Black Sun”, presenting fans with exclusive and unreleased tracks out via Season of Mist.

Sorcerer returns with an epic dark album on its fourth installment “Reign of the Reaper” and brings an absolutely great slab of late 80s and early 90s heavy metal out since yesterday via Metal Blade Records.

U.S. heavy/doom metal veterans Cirith Ungol return with their sixth epic studio album “Dark Parade”, presenting eight thundering hymns of glorious 80s heavy metal, out on October 20th via Metal Blade Records.

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.

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.

The international black/doom metal collective The Rite offers a chilling atmosphere of horror on their sophomore album, “The Astral Gloom. For those who like their music dark and mysterious, look no further. Released via Iron Bonehead Productions.