UK doom metal heavyweights Godthrymm unveiled with ‘The Sun Never Fell’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Projections’, out in May via Profound Lore Records!
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News Posts
Experimental stoner/doom metal duo Cthuluminati releases their new single ‘The Awakening’!
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Portland’s Dry Wedding signed with Vesperian and released their first new song ‘Arrowhead’!
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Monolord have shared the new track ‘Oozing Wound’, a second preview of their upcoming album ‘Neverending’, out next month with Relapse Records! Catch them live this summer at only a few European festivals, including Alcatraz, or this fall on their Europe tour!
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Irish doom stalwarts Soothsayer signed to Apocalyptic Witchcraft for the release of their next album! More details coming soon!
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Atmospheric doom metal project TodoMal shared lead single ‘Point of Coalescence’ from their upcoming album ‘Graveyards of Joy’, set for release in June via Season of Mist!
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French doomgaze duo Aetere unveiled the single ‘Cilice’ and announce their debut album ‘Theogonie’ to be out in June via Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records!
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Swedish gothic doom entity Draconian dropped their latest new single ‘Misanthrope River’, another track from their upcoming album ‘In Somnolent Ruin’, out next month via Napalm Records!
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Doom outfit The Answer Lies In The Black Void reveal cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Angel’, which will also be featured on the Pelagic Records label compilation ‘The Dungeon Tapes’!
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Khemmis returns! Their new self-titled album will be out in June via Nuclear Blast Records and they just shared a first single and video with ‘Invocation Of The Dreamer’!
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Album Reviews
Draconian has returned with one of their best outings to date. The brilliant musicianship and gothic death-doom style continue to resound from the bygone gothic era of the 90s. “In Somnolent Ruin” out via Napalm Records this Friday May 8th.
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Denmark’s Foetorem forges a perfect balance between aggression and the dark, grotesque atmosphere on their debut full length album “Incongruous Forms of Evergrowing Rot”. Out since March 27th via Everlasting Spew Records.
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The fifth studio album “Qroba” by Georgia’s funeral doom metal band Ennui is a ghostly and evocative piece that brings a sense of melancholia. If you like slow-paced, depressing funeral doom music, then you should check out this fantastic release. Out via Meuse Music Records since February 27th.
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Michigan four-piece death-doom act Temple of Void returns with the fifth studio album “The Crawl”, showing signs of progress and an expansion of sound to encapsulate different forms of metal. This album is recommended for fans of Type O Negative and Hooded Menace and out via Relapse Records since yesterday.
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On the fourth studio album “Necropalace”, Worm welcomes the listener to the nightmarish limbo of dread and fantasia where the floating spectral phantoms reside in starry realms guarded by mythical creatures and dragons that surround an imperial palace. Out via Century Media Records since February 13th.
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The second album “Advent of Wounds” of the Brazilian duo Fossilization, is ominously dark and resonates with sinister fury. The band returns after three years only to crush and prosper. Out since February 13, via Everlasting Spew Records.
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The third studio album “Elevation”, by the internation band Enshine is reminiscent of 90’s melodic death/doom metal and is out since January 3rd.
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On seventh opus “Tempelschlaf”, The Ruins of Beverast blends multiple musical inspirations from ambiance to haunting dark atmospheres of blackened doom. Alexander von Meilenwald demonstrates versatility as a songwriter, the result is a more focused album. Out via Ván Records since January 9th.
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The fourth studio album “Viribus Unitis” of the Ukrainian war brigade 1914 continues with the conceptual theme of World War I. 1914 integrate powerful elements of blackened death, doom, and atmospheric textures. Out since November 14th, via Napalm Records.
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Costa Rican death doom outfit Perishing delivers a prime example of guttural death doom on their debut ‘Malicious Acropolis Unveiled’. Out via Transcending Obscurity.
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Lists
Finland’s summer festival season is stacked again. From underground black metal rituals to lakeside legends and city concerts with global names, we picked 12 events worth your time this summer with Steelfest, Allas Live, Sonic Rites, Ankea, Nummirock, Tuska, CoolHead Live, Dark River Festival, John Smith Rock, Ilosaarirock, Hellsinki Metal Festival and SaariHelvetti
Who says festival season ends with summer? In Finland, the dark months come alive with music: experience the true punk spirit at HKI SKEPU FEST (starting tonight), get in touch with your ancestors and nature at Pakanafestarit, discover new talent at Lost In Music, embrace the shadows at Hellsinki Industrial Festival, sail into chaos with the Hellsinki Metal Cruise, sink into sorrow at Melancholy Mass Festivals, and feel the fire indoors at John Smith Rock Frozen. When the nights are long, Finland turns the volume up.
The first day of the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival is filled with an impressive line-up of metal bands of almost every subgenre, completed with some special ones. Of course you need to go see King Diamond headlining tonight, but there is so much more to discover, so our editorial team picked out 7 bands that they think you definitely shouldn’t miss out on with Rabbit Cult, Gost, Kanonenfieber, Forbidden, Fear Factory, Candlemass and Moonsorrow! What bands are you really looking forward to today? Let us know in the comments!
For the first day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Messa, Frayle, 3 Inches of Blood, thrown, Cabal, Crystal Lake, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons and Heriot! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with High Parasite, Gutalax, Landmvrks, Blood Fire Death, Slow Crush, Patriarchy, Fear Factory and Drowning Pool, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
On the last day of Alcatraz 2025, we get 10 more fantastic Belgian bands served up, going from mesmerizing atmosphere makers like Briqueville and Alkerdeel, to absolute mayhem from bands like Bark, Devastatiön, Slaughter Messiah and Cobracide, hardcore legends Congress and Whatever It Takes, rockers Promise Down or goth-tinged heavy metallers Cult of Scarecrow! Something for everyone and again proof how rich the Belgian heavy music scene is…
This weekend is the highlight for us and many among us in Belgium with the 2025 edition of Alcatraz Festival, but if you still haven’t decided to go, here are 10 reasons why we believe you should just go ahead and go get you some tickets still… What are you looking forward to the most for this year’s edition?
Only a handful of days left before Helsinki gets a healthy shot of heavy and dark music with the third edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival! If you’re still confused and wondering if you should go or not, check out 8 reasons we believe should convince you… Beware, get your tickets today as tomorrow the price will go up again!
Tolminator is already a quite unique and exceptional experience on its own, but they always seem to keep a keen eye on the scenes of different countries and know to pic some of the most promising acts for their line-ups. And this year, we get to welcome our friends of Marche Funèbre, Mordkaul and Brutal Sphincter to be part of the “Belgian Invasion”, but also 2 stellar acts from Finland with melodeath icons Omnium Gatherum and psychedelic black metal collective Oranssi Pazuzu!
On the first full day of Alcatraz 2025, 3 out of 4 stages will be opened by some Belgian gems, some banging heavy metal from Room13, atmospheric and melancholic doom with Splendidula and brutal death with a wink and a grin from Coffin Feeder!
Interviews
Eight years after our first conversation, we sit down again with Author & Punisher in Helsinki. Tristan Shone talks machines, migration, volunteering and why electronic music should still be played live.
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We caught up with Frayle at Alcatraz Festival 2025 to talk about their hauntingly beautiful new album ‘Heretics and Lullabies’ (out tomorrow with Napalm Records), the connection between artist and audience, and why walking through the dark is sometimes the only way to find the light.
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Earlier this year, we talked with vocalist Lina from Predatory Void about how things came together both as a band and for the debut album, and what she hoped to accomplish with the album.
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A chat with Jaakko and Niko from Marianas Rest about their new album ‘Auer’, set for release via Napalm Records on March 24, and how they’ve tried some new things with their music without losing the band’s soul, by having the courage to follow where the songs were taking them, bringing in clean vocals and a guest vocalist for the first time.
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We have a chat with Patrick Walch, the man behind the successful and interesting new label Noble Demon! Check out what he has to say!
A short interview with Kaunis Kuolematon at SaariHelvetti, one of the few festivals happening in 2020, to discuss the upcoming album!
Candlemass’ Mats Björkman is such a sweetheart. He took the time to chat with us at Graspop 2019. Check it out.
A lot of cultural events has been planned in the course of the past 5 years to commemorate the First World War. A conceptual funeral doom album that tackles this topic, however, we did not yet see. That is until American doom masters, Evoken released Hypnagogia. Long standing drummer Vince Verkay takes us through the nightmarish world that shaped their latest record.
A lot of cultural events has been planned in the course of the past 5 years to commemorate the First World War. A conceptual funeral doom album that tackles this topic, however, we did not yet see. That is until American doom masters, Evoken released Hypnagogia. Long standing drummer Vince Verkay takes us through the nightmarish world that shaped their latest record.
Find out all about Yob’s latest album ‘Our Raw Heart’ and how doom can save your life as bass player, Aaron Rieseberg bares his own heart .
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