Finnish melancholic metal band Mourning Wood recentrly released their debut album ‘Murder Of Crows’ with Inverse Records and shared a video for the track ‘A Grave Vacation’!
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News Posts
Finnish epic doom supergroup The Solitude signed a worldwide deal with Reaper Entertainment to bring some proper doom into the world with their upcoming album!
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Finnish doom-laden death metal force Marianas Rest shared the new video single ‘Diamonds in the Rough’, featuring Okko Solanterä from Horizon Ignited, and another track from their upcoming album ‘The Bereaved’, set for release in January 2026 via Noble Demon!
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Ponte Del Diavolo’s venom awakens on lead single “Spirit, Blood, Poison, Ferment!” from their upcoming album ‘De Venom Natura’, set for release in Feburary 2026 via Season of Mist!
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Finnish masters of melancholy Kaunis Kuolematon released their latest album ‘Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli’ with Noble Demon last week and shared a video for ‘Rauniot’ to celebrate.
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Alcatraz Festival just gave us an early christmas present by adding 32 more bands to the 2026 lineup, making it almost complete with another nice selection of metal icons, underground greats, up-and-coming bands and artists from its own Belgian soil!
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Doomgaze revelation Blackwater Holylight announce their new album ‘Not Here Not Gone’ to be out via Suicide Squeeze Records in January 2026 and unleash lead single ‘Heavy, Why?’ as a first taste!
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Finnish masters of melancholy Kaunis Kuolematon unveiled second single ‘Maailman Ainut Ihminen’ from upcoming album ‘Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli’, set for release at the end of this month via Noble Demon!
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Finnish melancholic metal force Marianas Rest announced their new album ‘The Bereaved’ to be out in January 2026 via their new label Noble Demon and shared a first single with ‘The Colour of You’!
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Finnish melancolic stars Kaunis Kuolematon announced their new album ‘Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli’ to be released next month with Noble Demon and unveiled first single and video ‘Merta’!
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Album Reviews
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Debuting with ‘Haunted Funeral Creations’, the three guys from Californian death metal outfit Conjureth are channeling their more doom inspired visions via Tumulation. Out now via Hammerheart Records.
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Dark Descent Records and Extremely Rotten Productions surprised the fans with one of the best split releases of the year. Offering three exclusive songs from Denmark’s death metal outfit Undergang and one monolithic 14-minute track from the U.S. death/doom metal act Spectral Voice.
With ‘Prosaic’, Liam Neigbors’ (aka A.L.N.) brainchild Mizmor takes a less conceptual, down to earth approach to its unique mixture of depressive black metal and funeral doom, making each song stand on its own two feet in this bleak slice of life. Out via Profound Lore Records on this Friday, July 21.
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Static Abyss’ second full-length “Aborted from Reality” invokes such horror and treads into the style of morbid crusty death doom metal, Chris Reifert and Greg Wilkinson have successfully created a filthy and sordid amalgam of slow death doom metal. Out via Peaceville Records!
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Photo Reports
Pics of the second day of SaariHelvetti, one of the only festivals in Finland during the summer of 2020. Check it out!
Pictures of the show Tribulation played opening for Ghost at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki!
The pictures of the first day of Steelchaos 2019, a gathering of wolves!
Day 2 of Blowup Vol. 5 had an even more impressive line-up to get mesmerized by. Here are the pics of the day!
Pictures of a rainy heavy metal night in the park with headliner Children of Bodom!
A great night of Scandinavian metal with Shade Empire, Ereb Altor and Soulfallen!
Katatonia is celebrating 10 years of “Night Is The New Day” and stopped by Belgium on their extensive tour! Support from Cellar Darling & Wheel.
Outside freezing and icy, inside we managed to heat up quite well at the sold out show… Lucifer is back baby! Check out the pictures!
check out our pictures from the doomy 10th edition of Darken The Moon Festival!
2 nights of darkness, occult and extreme metal… SteelChaos 2019 was yet again a highly stimulating festival! Check out the awesome pictures here…
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