Affasia are a doom band from the US and this is their debut EP.
This EP contains four songs of melodic death/doom metal, spread out across 27 minutes of evocative and engaging music. Continue reading “Affasia – Adrift in Remorse (Review)”
Category: Doom
Convocation – Scars Across (Review)
Convocation are from Finland and play atmospheric death/doom metal. This is their debut album.
Featuring members of Desolate Shrine and Dark Buddha Rising, this is dark and gloomy death/doom that boasts four colossal tracks lasting 50 minutes in total. Continue reading “Convocation – Scars Across (Review)”
Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn) (Review)
This is the third album from US stoner/sludge/doom band Eagle Twin.
This is blues-inflected doom, taking a dirty stoner influence and spreading it far and wide with a low and heavy sludgy doom coating. Continue reading “Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn) (Review)”
Monads – IVIIV (Review)
This is the debut album from Monads, a funeral doom band from Belgium.
Ahhh, funeral doom. You’ll never leave me, right? No matter what happens, I’ll always have you to turn to in times of loss and hopelessness? Right?
Right?
Dark Buddha Rising – II (Review)
This is the latest EP from Dark Buddha Rising, a psychedelic doom band from Finland.
Specialising in songs that are long, expressive, layered, and absorbing, this is the follow up to 2015’s very enjoyable Inversum. Continue reading “Dark Buddha Rising – II (Review)”
Eye of Solitude/Marche Funèbre – Split (Review)
Eye of Solitude are from the UK and Marche Funèbre are from Belgium. They have teamed up to offer this doom-filled split release.
I’m a big fan of Eye of Solitude’s work, although it seems that somehow I seem to have missed out on the band’s last album. Regardless, Continue reading “Eye of Solitude/Marche Funèbre – Split (Review)”
Huntsmen – American Scrap (Review)
Huntsmen are a US post-metal band and this is their debut album.
Huntsmen mix doom, stoner, and progressive American metal into their textured post-metal melting pot, resulting in 41 minutes of engaging material. Continue reading “Huntsmen – American Scrap (Review)”
Forming the Void/Pyreship – Split (Review)
Forming the Void are a progressive stoner/sludge metal band and Pyreship are a post-metal band, both are from the US.
Forming the Void open the split with a single six and a half minutes of pleasant and personable modern progressive stoner metal. Continue reading “Forming the Void/Pyreship – Split (Review)”
Hemelbestormer – A Ring of Blue Light (Review)
This is the second album from Belgian post-metallers Hemelbestormer.
Having enjoyed 2016’s Aether, listening to A Ring of Blue Light was a no-brainer really. On this second release Hemelbestormer’s atmospheric metal has not disappointed. Continue reading “Hemelbestormer – A Ring of Blue Light (Review)”
Sixes – Methistopheles (Review)
Sixes are a doom/sludge band from the US and this is their debut album.
You know that you can never, ever have enough filthy, ugly doom, right? I mean, it’s just not possible.
Enter Sixes.
Methistopheles is a colossal 62 minutes of feedback, Earth-shaking distortion, apocalyptic melodies, and throat-destroying vocals. And boy does it grab you and not let go until the bitter end. Continue reading “Sixes – Methistopheles (Review)”
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