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!
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’!
Are you comfortable? Doesn’t matter really. Turn the volume up to 11 and doom on with Monolord’s magnum opus ‘No Comfort’.
The profound experience of Crypt Sermon in approaching doom metal. Between the thin lines of Candlemass and Solitude Aeternus the band craft their musical creativity.
Japanese grave robbbers Coffins bring the doom once more on a long overdue new full-length ‘Beyond the Circular Demise’.
On their way to the Carpathians Italian master of the macabre Abhor and Abysmal Grief stopped for a curious split out now via Iron Bonehead.
Canadian power doomster Smoulder release their epic debut on Cruz Del Sur Music.
In 2018 The hellish intronauts of Oranssi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha Rising came together for a one off event, commissioned for the Roadburn Festival, ingeniously monikered The Waste of Space Orchestra. Syntheosis is the studio interpretation of that psychotropic interdimensional journey.
In case you missed out on the original birth death doom as a genre or are just feeling a bit nostalgic, have a listen to Asphodelus’ “Stygian Dreams” which takes you back to the mythical times of the early nineties
Pulchra Morte blends the melodies with aggression and they do it with quality.
‘The Door To Doom’ is an amazing executed epic doom metal record. Candlemass is keeping you bewitched from start to finished with heavy riffs, pounding drums and astounding composition and the return of Johan Längquist.
With a moniker like The Sabbathian you’d almost be disappointed if the band didn’t display some serious hero worship at the altar of Iommi, yet it’s not quite so retro as you might think. This dynamic duo mixes in a lot of unexpected twists and turns, from Burzumesque guitar hissing to a duet with Liv Kristine.
