This is the debut album from Canadian doom band Empress.
I enjoyed 2017’s Reminiscence, with its psychedelic grooves and rolling riffs. It set out a strong opening argument for the band, which Premonition now ably capitalises on. Combining elements of doom, sludge, progressive, and post-metal into 49 minutes of expressive, mood-focused music, Premonition is a thoroughly convincing affair. Continue reading “Empress – Premonition (Review)”
Eremit are a doom/sludge band from Germany and this is their latest EP.
I loved 2019’s Carrier of Weight, so much that it appeared in my end of year 2019 list too. As such, when this new EP appeared – two tracks, lasting 21 minutes – I knew I had to consume it hungrily. Continue reading “Eremit – Desert of Ghouls (Review)”
TOOMS are an Irish progressive sludge metal band and this is their debut album.
Combining elements of sludge, doom, drone, stoner, and hardcore, with progressive and psychedelic touches, The Orb Offers Massive Signals contains 56 minutes of individual and well-crafted sludge nastiness. Continue reading “TOOMS – The Orb Offers Massive Signals (Review)”
Mazzeri are a French doom metal band and this is their debut album.
Mazzeri contains four tracks, with a total duration of 48 minutes. It’s a release that contains many surprises, and contains many wonders. Continue reading “Mazzeri – Mazzeri (Review)”
This is the third album from Lantern, a Finnish blackened death metal band.
2017’s II: Morphosis was a grim and evil collection of tracks, and made a good enough impression that I knew I wanted to check out Dimensions when it appeared. These new tracks are dismal and dark, fusing death, black, and Continue reading “Lantern – Dimensions (Review)”
Rites of Daath are a death metal band from Poland and this is their debut album.
Rites of Daath play morbid, filthy death metal crossed with atmospheric death/doom, resulting in a hideous monstrosity of blackened horror that makes for quite an impressive and immersive 38 minutes. Continue reading “Rites of Daath – Doom Spirit Emanation (Review)”
Convocation are a funeral doom band from Finland, and this is their second album.
I enjoyed 2018’s Scars Across; the band’s brand of atmospheric funeral death/doom was crushingly oppressive and filled with misery, just as you’d want something like this to be. Convocation have now returned with 45 minutes of Continue reading “Convocation – Ashes Coalesce (Review)”
No preamble this month, let’s just get right down to it… Continue reading “Monthly Overview – the Best of June 2020”
Northern Crown are a doom metal band from the US and this is their third album.
Northern Crown’s past material left very positive marks on me, (In the Hands of the Betrayer, The Others), so I turned to In a Pallid Shadow with hopes of an enjoyable romp into doom metal waters. Continue reading “Northern Crown – In a Pallid Shadow (Review)”
This is the debut album from US doom metal band Cathartes Aura.
This album is available in two different versions; the first is divided into four tracks, while the second is a single 42-minute song. Needles to say, I recommend the latter as the definitive version, but ultimately the music is the same either way. Continue reading “Cathartes Aura – Cathartes Aura (Review)”
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