One way or another, we are all familiar with many of the stereotypes that have come along and about throughout the vast realms of doom metal whether we have done our best to embrace or reject them. Plenty of bands … Continue reading Xagonia – Undead Hunter
The sheer variety of doom metal has always been a factor that has kept me coming back time after time, year after year. It’s the perfect embodiment of why metal is such a magnificent creation to begin with, and it’s … Continue reading Bog Monkey – Hollow
Here, I thought the best thing to come out of funeral doom metal, or even just long-form doom in general, that we would get this year would be the new creation from Bell Witch for obvious reasons. I find myself … Continue reading Oromet – s/t
As one of the original bands that showed me what all was possible from the world of funeral doom metal, this is a return that I have been anticipating for years now. It has been far too long since we … Continue reading Usnea – Bathed in Light
For years now, the state of doom metal has been nothing to underestimate or joke about. From a great level of innovation to a fiercely strong devotion to the classic veins, the future of doom has never been in question … Continue reading Wooden Veins – Imploding Waves
From the ashes of what once was, something always arises. It may not be in the form that we expect, but something will absolutely come forth from what was laid to rest much like the phoenix. I have listened to … Continue reading Stillbeing – World Builder
Normally, whenever we start talking about the old school in relation to death metal, it’s a very singular conversation where the style is to be considered. The straightforward ferocious death metal is mostly what people tend to keep the conversation, … Continue reading Sporae Autem Yuggoth – …However It Still Moves
As has been the case since the very inception of the genre, it is often the case that the very best material that is to be found in the hole of the underground is what’s on the very floor of … Continue reading Furnace Floor – s/t
While we live in an age where every vein of the wider styles of metal have more than enough of a platform to really deliver on their own kinds of greatness, there will always be a few sounds that don’t … Continue reading Ashtar – Wandering Through Time
There has never been any question to the very quality that the world of death and doom metal are able to conjure once they’re brought together by hands that are able to contain such massive power, and it’s a sight … Continue reading Gateway – Galgendood
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