2023-12-12 08:00:28 (c) Astral Sleep How can the sheer immensity of the apocalypse, the end of existence, be made tangible? Astral Sleep While we don’t have a definitive answer to this question, we’re trying anyway. In recent years, the Finns’ doom sound has increasingly changed from mystical to emotional heaviness, which doesn’t stop at (funeral) … Read more
2023-12-12 07:00:49 Beyond This Earth – Portraits Of The AbsurdOrigin: Livadia / GreeceRelease: 01.12.2023Label: Self-publishingDuration: 53:47Genre: Heavy Rock / Stoner Rock The Greek ones Beyond This Earth were founded over ten years ago and are joining us Portraits Of The Absurd their second studio album. The current release is the pretty raw EP Tales from … Read more
2023-12-05 08:00:47 (c) V/Haze Miasma For V/Haze Miasma it’s currently going back to the start. The deal with Supreme Chaos Records comes with a look into the past. The project from the neighboring country, which was conceived as a solo project and is now realized as a band, is currently reissuing its first, somewhat lost … Read more
2023-12-01 08:00:15 (c) Camilla Bjorkgren Kilsbergen emerged from the central Swedish mountain range in 2014 ORO, sprung from dense forests, driven by massive to leaden walls of sound. Musically, the quintet, which has so far released a gripping, wonderfully destructive record, primarily poaches in the doom and sludge environment, fueled by post-metallic synergies. Her latest … Read more
2023-11-24 09:30:54 Cirith Howl – Dark ParadeOrigin: USARelease: 20.10.2023Label: Metal Blade RecordsLength of time: 44:07Genre: Epic Metal Photo Credit: Peter Beste The legendary ones Cirith growled from Ventura in California are refining our fall with their new album Dark Paradewhich of course again features a successful fantasy artwork by Michael Whelan and also features all … Read more
2023-11-21 07:00:47 Weeping Silence – Isles of LoreOrigin: MaltaRelease: 24.11.2023Label: ViciSolum ProductionsGenre: Death Doom Metal / Gothic Metal Photo Credit: Daniel Delia Quiz question: What do you know about the metal scene in Malta? If your answer is “Nothing,” then you have nothing to be ashamed of. The bands on this island are not very … Read more
2023-11-20 08:00:29 (c) Asgeir Mickelson Patience is a virtue that is extremely important, especially in Doom realms. Strange New Dawn know this only too well. The first ideas for this formation arose back in 2000, but it wasn’t until twelve years later that it became a welcome reality. Since then, the quintet around (former) members … Read more
2023-11-19 08:00:19 (c) Leonov What’s been going on for a long time is finally getting dark, and so they get in touch Leonov back after (not only what felt like) a break that was far too long. More than five years have passed since their second album, but at least purely musically they remained true … Read more