Album Reviews

Following suit its inaugural instalment two years ago, Australian masters of melancholy Mournful Congregation completed its funereal diptych with ‘The Exuviae of the Gods Part II’ . Out via Osmose Records and 20 Buck Spin.

On this debut outing, the Portuguese quintet follows the subterranean path of the Finnish forefathers of funeral doom metal Thergothon.

U.K. based funeral doom metal band Esoteric returns after long years of hiatus. Their newest, 7thalbum, ‘A Pyrrhic Existence’, is a mammoth coalescence of funeral doom, death metal and experimental elements from progressive metal.

Nightfell borrow the elements of 90’s death metal and turn their sound into crushing obscure dirges.

Transcending Obscurity has put another jewel in their crown of doom with Illimitable Dolor’s sophomore opus ‘Leaden Light ‘.

With Mournful Congregation we get another serving of funeral doom from Down Under…

Photo Reports

check out our pictures from the doomy 10th edition of Darken The Moon Festival!

Gig Reports

For the tenth edition of the Darken the Moon Festival, the organization came up with a lineup that no self-respecting fan of doom metal should want to pass up. Even on a lazy Sunday afternoon in autumn.