A song about the deepest depths of despair – Finnish extreme metal band Saasta releases second single ‘The Envy’ from their upcoming album ‘Cesspool’, set to be out in May with Inverse Records!
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News Posts
Hellsinki Metal Festival has completed its 2026 line-up with the addition of Paradise Lost, Carcass, Cryptopsy, Unleashed, Mawiza, Sanguisugabogg, Omnium Gatherum, Kalmah, Assemble the Chariots, Cyan Kicks, Tungsten, Sepulchral Curse, Orly, Horizon Ignited, Misþyrming, and VREID!
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Italian doom band Messa are pleased to announce their first EU & UK headline tour this fall!
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French heavy doom trio Brüle unveiled the track ‘Thélème’ from ‘Beltane’ the upcoming second phase of their Grand Work set for release in May!
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Danish doom metal band Goatsmoker announces new album ‘E.R.I.S.’ to be out next month via Vinyltroll Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Gods of Gunzilla’!
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Gothic doom metal masters Draconian are back with their new album ‘In Somnolent Ruin’, out in May via Napalm Records, where long-time vocalist Lisa Johansson is making a return!
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Spanish melodic doom legends Golgotha share their new single ‘A Simple Life’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Hubris’, set for release in April with Abstract Emotions.
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Belgian doom metal band Akem Manah released a lyric video for the single ‘The Burning of John Briggs’, a second track unveiled from their upcoming album ‘Threnodies’, out in April via Black Lion Records!
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Australian death doom outfit Mammon’s Throne released ‘Departed’, the second new track of upcoming album ‘My Body to the Worms’, set to be out in March via Hammerheart Records!
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Scandinavian metal outfit Ereb Altor are about to kick off their “Rites of the Blood Moon” tour tomorrow, which will take them all over Europe, including a show at our very own venue Asgaard! Don’t miss out!
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Album Reviews
“Ascension” somehow fulfills what “Obsidian” might have lacked; it’s another worthy entry in the band’s growing discography and redefines the modern gothic doom metal that is on par with other veterans like My Dying Bride. Out via Nuclear Blast Records since yesterday, September 19th.
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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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‘Saturnian Appendices’ is the newest release by the Philadelphian epic doom metal band Crypt Sermon. The EP includes three brooding, doom-laden songs and one cover song by Mayhem. Out via Dark Descent Records.
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Greek titans Nightfall display remarkable musicianship on their eleventh studio album “Children of Eve”, out via Season of Mist since yesterday. The songs embrace and recapture the gothic facet of its music with dark atmosphere.
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In between full lengths, Finnish-Hellenic ensemble Aeonian Sorrow has birthed a new four track EP of resplendent funereal gothic doom. ‘From the Shadows’ is available right now.
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Finnish black metal duo Moonfall delves into the archaic and atmospheric style of early black and dungeon synth. Their full-length album “Odes to the Ritual Hills” was released via Iron Bonehead Productions last week Friday!
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The second full-length album “In Penitence and Ruin” by the Canadian quintet Tribunal offers a unique trademark that harkens back to the forgotten era of gothic doom and is a beautiful and thrilling piece of art. The album is highly recommended for fans of My Dying Bride, The Sins of Thy Beloved and Candlemass, out via 20 Bucks Spin this Friday!
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Materializing out of nowhere after 8 years, Danish necromancer Nortt has once more called forth a tome of the bleakest blackened funeral doom on ‘Dodssang’, out on Avantgarde Music.
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Prep yourself for one of the most interesting acts in the left field of the Alcatraz 2025 lineup with the fourth full length from Italian purveyors of scarlet doom, Messa. ‘The Spin’, a collection of exquisite songs is out now on Metal Blade Records and might mean a big break for these talented people!
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The Hungarian duo Rothadàs deliver a crushing monstrosity of cavernous death-doom metal on the sophomore “Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharang”. Out via Pulverised Records and Me Saco un Ojo Records since yesterday, March 21st!
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