Khemmis unleashed their new single and video ‘Beneath The Scythe’, another single from their upcoming self-titled album, set for release in June via Nuclear Blast Records!
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UK doom metal heavyweights Godthrymm unveiled with ‘The Sun Never Fell’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Projections’, out in May via Profound Lore Records!
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Experimental stoner/doom metal duo Cthuluminati releases their new single ‘The Awakening’!
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Portland’s Dry Wedding signed with Vesperian and released their first new song ‘Arrowhead’!
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Monolord have shared the new track ‘Oozing Wound’, a second preview of their upcoming album ‘Neverending’, out next month with Relapse Records! Catch them live this summer at only a few European festivals, including Alcatraz, or this fall on their Europe tour!
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Irish doom stalwarts Soothsayer signed to Apocalyptic Witchcraft for the release of their next album! More details coming soon!
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Atmospheric doom metal project TodoMal shared lead single ‘Point of Coalescence’ from their upcoming album ‘Graveyards of Joy’, set for release in June via Season of Mist!
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French doomgaze duo Aetere unveiled the single ‘Cilice’ and announce their debut album ‘Theogonie’ to be out in June via Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records!
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Swedish gothic doom entity Draconian dropped their latest new single ‘Misanthrope River’, another track from their upcoming album ‘In Somnolent Ruin’, out next month via Napalm Records!
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Doom outfit The Answer Lies In The Black Void reveal cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Angel’, which will also be featured on the Pelagic Records label compilation ‘The Dungeon Tapes’!
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Photo Reports
The smoky pictures of a night of doom, sludge and stoner at the Blowup vol. 4 Pre Festival Club!
Photo coverage of DWEF, Moonsorrow and Primorial from the Heathen Crusade show in Bruges (BE) on 15 April 2018
Almost none of us are familiar with the venue called Amuz, a renovated church that now serves as one of Antwerp’s most prestigious concert halls. Most of the time this […]
For years and years I go to the Roadkill Festival in Waarschoot, BE. After all these years this festival became a gathering of friends in the wide area of Waarschoot. Not only the numerous friends there make it noteworthy, also the organizers manage to get hell of a line-up!
This edition is no exception to this habit: They managed to get Pentagram, Thunder Mother, Acid King and Raketkanon. Also bands like Eyes on the Machine, Huracán, Hedonist and Fire Down Below entered the stage!
The MTV Headbanger’s Ball is always a very good show, and this year was no different. If you want to see our photo impression, this is it!
The pictures of the mesmerizing journey two bands took us on with their all enveloping soundscape filled with beauty and raw harshness.
The little Winter brother of the impressive Steelfest Open Air took place for the first time and we were there to get the pure hatred and evil immortalized on pictures!
The visuals of an evening of Finnish pagan inspired metal by the viking warriors of Ensiferum and Crimfall and the wolves of Wolfheart!
The pictures of a weekend of celebrations and discoveries at the 20th anniversary of Tuska Open Air!
A look at what grim, dark and frostbitten looks like… 2 days of underground and obscure extreme metal at Steelfest Open Air in pictures.
Album Reviews
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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“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!
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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.
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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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”Viscera” is a sonic nightmare sustained by the abrasive elements of blackened death doom, Strigoi depicts utter bleakness and redefines its style where the band takes a logical step forward from the debut album. Released via Season of Mist.
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Candlmass’ 13th record “Sweet Evil Sun” delivers plenty of emotive melodies and crushing riffs that will appease the demons inside your head, The songs in the album evokes the inner spirit of the Swedish doom metal masters this is a heavy bombardment of powerful riffs. Out on November 18 via Napalm Records!
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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.
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Canadian heavy doom hitters Cauchemar make your fantasy dreams come true on their third offering ‘Rosa Mystica’. Out on Temple of Mystery Records.
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Author & Punisher is back with yet another crushing album filled with inhuman soundscapes that are enhanced by newly found human touches!
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Lists
Mazen lists up his favorite releases of 2019 in the black, death and heavy metal scene, check out what he thinks are interesting releases to check out!
Again, 2019 was an incredible year for music. Check out what we think were the albums of the year!
End of the year means albums of the year lists, so here is the one we accumulated from what our editorial team likes!
2017 was again a massive year for music of all makes, I’ve done my best to narrow it down to the 10 releases that suck with me the most the past year…
Darkness, underground, dripping of hate and vile regret… our editor-in-chief has delivered his ode to absolute and relentless black in his albums of the year 2017…
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