This is the latest EP from US doom band Enhailer.
Containing just one 18-minute track this EP straddles genres and styles, but ultimately falls under the doom heading most of all. Continue reading “Enhailer – Dumb Enough to Care (Review)”
Category: Doom
Blæck Fox – Morasth – Split (Review)
This is a split release between two sludge/doom/post-metal bands from Germany – Blæck Fox and Morasth.
Blæck Fox present us with 15 minutes of layered blackened gloom. Spread over two tracks, Blæck Fox bring the darkness with enviable ability. Continue reading “Blæck Fox – Morasth – Split (Review)”
Blissful Stream/Lightsabres – Devil’s Night to All Souls – Split (Review)
This is a split between two Swedish one man bands; the doom metal of Blissful Stream and the dark rock of Lightsabres.
Blissful Stream are up first, with the first new material from the project since 2016’s Ascending Demons. Continue reading “Blissful Stream/Lightsabres – Devil’s Night to All Souls – Split (Review)”
Slow – V – Oceans (Review)
Slow is a solo funeral doom band from Belgium and this is his fifth album.
From the man involved with bands such as We All Die (Laughing), COAG, Merda Mundi, Cult of Erinyes, and many others, this is 57 minutes of atmospheric funeral doom that’s come to drag you down into a bleak, watery abyss. Continue reading “Slow – V – Oceans (Review)”
Druid Lord – Grotesque Offerings (Review)
Druid Lord are a death/doom metal band from the US and this is their second album.
I wonder what rotten, infested crypt this has crawled out of? Druid Lord manifest themselves as shambling ghouls, full of the horrors of the night and the terrors that lurk just at the edges of your vision. Continue reading “Druid Lord – Grotesque Offerings (Review)”
Shadowmaster – Shadowmaster (Review)
Shadowmaster are a Swedish doom/sludge metal band and this is their debut album.
Now this is the stuff. This is brooding and monolithic doom metal, a whopping 66 minutes of it in fact. Continue reading “Shadowmaster – Shadowmaster (Review)”
Dirge – Alma | Baltica (Review)
Dirge are a French atmospheric post-metal band and this is their latest EP.
Making my 2014 end of year best of list, I’m a huge fan of the band’s previous album Hyperion, so it’s great to have some new material from this band. Continue reading “Dirge – Alma | Baltica (Review)”
Djinn and Miskatonic – Even Gods Must Die (Review)
Djinn and Miskatonic are an Indian doom metal band and this is their second album.
2013’s Forever in the Realm was a charismatic and flavoured doom metal album that made a firm impression on me. It’s been far too long since we’ve had some more music from this notable band, but they’ve more than made Continue reading “Djinn and Miskatonic – Even Gods Must Die (Review)”
Sorxe – Matter & Void (Review)
Sorxe are a post-metal/sludge/doom band from the US and this is their second album.
Well, I’ve been hungry for this. 2014’s Surrounded by Shadows is one of my favourite sludge/doom releases, making it high up on my end of year best of list for 2014. Over the years my appreciation for this superlative album has only grown, so has my desire to hear its follow up. Continue reading “Sorxe – Matter & Void (Review)”
Flesh Martyr – Echoes of a Distant Weeping (Review)
Flesh Martyr are a Greek death/doom band and this is their debut EP.
After a typically pointless/throwaway intro, Flesh Martyr offer up three solid songs of death/doom. Continue reading “Flesh Martyr – Echoes of a Distant Weeping (Review)”
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