News Posts

Gothic doom metal outfit Tomorrow’s Rain announced their upcoming new album ‘Ovdan’ to be released in April via AOP Records, featuring a wide array of impressive guests from bands like Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Sisters of Mercy, Dark Funeral and Sol Invictus! And last week, they shared the first single and video ‘Sunrise’!

Tuska completed their 2024 line-up with the addition of Kerry King and 6 domestic acts with Kaunis Kuolematon, The Abbey, NightStop, Suotana, Malformed and Shereign. The Tuska KVLT bands still need to be announced, though! Get your tickets now!

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’!

Dutch funeral doom metal act Angmodnes shared their latest new video ‘The Hours’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Rot Of The Soul’, set for release in a couple of weeks via Meuse Music Records and Tragedy Productions!

Polish extreme metal collective Shadohm shared their new video single ‘Blurred’, a track from their upcoming debut ‘Through Darkness Towards Enlightenment’, set for release via Selfmadegod Records in March!

Australian dark folk/blackgaze project Suldusk shared the new single ‘Crystalline’ with a gripping new video, another track from the upcoming ‘Anthesis’ album, set for release in the beginning of March via Napalm Records!

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’!

Selfmadegod Records presents ‘Through Darkness Towards Enlightenment’, the debut album from new Polish metal collective SHADOHM with current and ex-members of bands like Vader, Decapitated and Antigama, set for release in March!

Dutch funeral doom act Angmodnes announces their new album ‘Rot Of The Soul’ to be released in March via Meuse Music Records and Tragedy Productions, and share the opening track ‘Beneath’!

Boogie metallers Leather Lung shared the ripping single ‘Empty Bottle Boogie’, a single from their upcoming album ‘Graveside Grin’, set for release via Magnetic Eye Records in March!

Album Reviews

8 years after the near perfect ‘The Year is One’, one of the longest running Finnish doom acts Spiritus Mortis has returned with a new lineup and a fifth album ‘The Great Seal’, easing down a bit on the heavy doom riffery and replacing it with simply epic sounding heavy metal. Out on Svart Records since last Friday.

Canadian heavy doom hitters Cauchemar make your fantasy dreams come true on their third offering ‘Rosa Mystica’. Out on Temple of Mystery Records.

Author & Punisher is back with yet another crushing album filled with inhuman soundscapes that are enhanced by newly found human touches!

Shape of Despair has transcended far and beyond “Return to the Void” returns to the old ways as it set a new paradigm of outstanding craftsmanship that will surpass many fans of funeral doom metal.

“Trisagion” offers a grand spectacle of how modern atmospheric black metal and funeral doom can be effectively engaging and powerful when merged.

Verbum’s first full length album “Exhortation to the Impure” takes a profound approach to death/doom metal, this is definitely an album that you shouldn’t miss.

From the deepest dungeons of Bruges Gateway has crawled out with his first EP in two years, the aptly named ‘Flesh Reborn’

Marianas Rest seeks to expand and critique melancholic melodic death metal on their sophomore album.

Finnish melodic death metal new comers Slow Fall deliver an impressive and diverse slab of melodeath on their debut full-length!

Like the drug, Opium Warlords’ “Nembutal” heals the listener of his or hers anxiety and leaves you sober and with an open mind.