News Posts

Italian doom band Messa are pleased to announce their first EU & UK headline tour this fall!

French heavy doom trio Brüle unveiled the track ‘Thélème’ from ‘Beltane’ the upcoming second phase of their Grand Work set for release in May!

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’!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

Finnish doom metal outfit Grain Of Pain announced their new album ‘Behind Us All’ to be out in March via Noble Demon and share a first track with ‘To Burn Inside’!

Finnish melancholic death/doom metallers Hanging Garden unveiled the details of their upcoming new album ‘Isle of Bliss’, set for release in March via Agonia Records and shared a music video for its opening track ‘To Outlive the Nine Ravens’!

Album Reviews

Know, oh prince, that in the years following their self-titled debut, there was an age undreamed of for Stygian Crown. Hither came ‘Funeral for a King’, their sophomore record, heavy riffed, soaringly vocaled. Fists in the air, with gigantic melodies and gigantic doom, to tread the beer-drenched stages of your summer festivals under their sandaled feet. Taken from the Cruz del Sur Chronicles.

Japanese death/doom four-piece Coffins return with their most anticipated album “Sinister Oath”, released on March 29th via Relapse Records, and deliver a dark and oppressive piece, highly recommended for fans of Autopsy, Asphyx, and Hooded Menace!

20 Buck Spin brings forth the full-length album “Chytridiomycosis Relinquished” of the Est Yorkshire death doom quintet Slimelord. The seven epic songs reach the peaks of innovative composition defining the mysteriousness of the music, out since last Friday!

Kings of cavernous death doom Spectral Voice return with one of the year’s most monolithic albums. “Sparagmos” borders into the spectral realms and portrays the band’s unique take in a more crushing and dismal manner, released via Dark Descent Records on February 9th.

Montréal-based death metal band Phobocosm shows great intellect in blending the modern dissonance with cavernous death doom style. The third album “Foreordained” was released via Dark Descent Records yesterday, December 8th.

20 Buck Spin presents the latest split album “Starpath”, unfolding the blissful serene and grim nature of Dream Unending and Worm in a special release, integrating the light side of yin and the dark side of yang in a beautiful symmetry. Out on November 24th.

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.

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.

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.

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.