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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’!
Album Reviews
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
“The Choral Tomb” is a bombardment of oceanic maelstrom the music is vastly spacious and filled with emotion-packed clean vocals, therefore, allowing much diversity by applying elements from sludge doom, droning atmosphere, and arpeggio guitars. Ahab conveys its own trademarks which they proclaim as a Nautical funeral doom institution. Out today via Napalm Records!
The follow-up to ‘Mysterium I’ that was released earlier this year, ‘Mysterium II’ sees Dutch death doom legends Celestial Season take on a more funereal side. Out now via Burning World Records.
Darkthrone on its 20th album tackles the old era of traditional metal in a very conventional method. Although some of the tracks may lack the raw organic sound, nevertheless “Astral Fortress” is an epic blackened and doom-laden heavy metal record that is gritty and bold to its core! Out via Peaceville Records.
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