Tag: Doom

Dwellnought – Monolith Of Ephemerality Review

Monolith Of Ephemerality is the ambitious debut of Italian quartet Dwellnought, which formed in 2023 and released one prior demo last year. The band proclaims it blends black metal and doom, but you’ll find moments …

Ligation – After Gods Review

Have you ever stubbed your toe and then cursed so violently that you accidentally opened a portal to an alternate universe where it’s always raining and everyone scowls at you like you owe their grandmother …

Heteropsy – Embalming Review

Mankind has a great history of discovering how two great tastes taste great together. From the Reese’s Cup to putting some really good slaw on a pulled pork sandwich, we know the value of adding …

Cathedral – Society’s Pact With Satan Review

For a band with a somewhat complex legacy, Cathedral really knew how to wrap things up with a very high quality bow back in 2013. The Last Spire was a heavy, deathly serious slab of …

Paradise Lost – Ascension Review

It might be hard to believe, but Paradise Lost’s return to their doom/death roots on The Plague Within is now a full decade old. This makes them almost double veterans of their own sound, now …

Slomatics – Atomicult Review

[Artwork by Ryan Lesser] It starts softly. “Obey Capricorn,” the opener of Slomatics’ eighth album, Atomicult, begins with drummer/vocalist Martin Harvey all by his lonesome. “Behold: the moon, the sun, the stars, the sky,” Harvey …

Krigsgrav – Stormcaller Review

In 2023, Texas metal quartet Krigsgrav released an album that resonated with me more than any that year, clinching the top spot on my AOTY list. A beautifully sinister cacophony of melodic black and doom …

A Devil’s Dozen – The Original Black Sabbath

For as long as I’ve been a fan of this wild, wonderful world of heavy metal, I can remember two discussions (that inevitably become two arguments), ones that never seem to get resolved. The first …