News Posts

Norwich based doom duo Kulk has signed to Church Road Records and just released their new devastating single ‘Ache’!

UK “Death Pop” outfit High Parasite released their new single ‘Drag Me Under’, out with Spinefarm Records!

Belgian doom/stoner metallers Witch Piss shared the single ‘Beggars And Horses’ from their upcoming album ‘The Devil Doesn’t Burn’, out next month via Ardua Music!

Finnish death/doom metallers Hanging Garden revealed music video and new single ‘Eternal Trees of Turquoise’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Isle of Bliss’, out this Friday via Agonia Records!

Belgian atmospheric black/doom band Splendidula unveiled new single ‘Absentia’, featuring Tim Yatras from Austere and Germ and the title track of their upcoming album set for release in April via Argonauta Records!

US heavy metal psych force Book of Wyrms signed with Argonauta Records for the release of their upcoming album ‘Megacelestial’!

Puerto Rican doom/progressive metallers Moths returned with their commanding new single ‘Crown Jewel’, created in collaburation with wrestler Gema as her official entrance song!

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!

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!

Album Reviews

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.

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!

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!

Third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened doom/death metal quartet Morast is equally dark and misanthropic, out via Ván Records.

The new album “Revelations from the Void” of the Catalonian death doom sextet Onirophagus is rooted in the style of classic death doom metal. Recommended for fans of Officium Triste, Saturnus, and early My Dying Bride, out via Personal Records.

The masters of melancholic doom Dawn of Solace are back, get ready for the melancholic trip of your life on their latest release ‘Affliction Vortex’, out via Noble Demon tomorrow February 14!

Norwegian gothic/doom sextet Funeral conveys a sonic requiem on their seventh studio album “Gospel of Bones” out via Season of Mist since October 18th.

Tenth studio album “Sunraven” from these Swedish heavy doomsters conveys the majesty of Grand Magus and evokes a relentless quality, in sounding all-powerful, and majestic. Out since yesterday, October 18th, via Nuclear Blast!

Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.

The long-awaited second album “Ancient Doom Metal” by the Russian epic doom metal act Scald captures the pondering power of bands like Manowar and Candlemass, the mystical and a true Viking tradition in honor of Bathory. Out now via High Roller Records since last Friday, July 26th.