Tag: Doom
Tiamat – The Scarred People Review
Tiamat’s journey from Swedish death metal also-rans to brilliant doom / death / goth experimentalists to pedestrian purveyors of cheesy mediocrity is well documented, at least for anyone who has paid attention since about 1998. …
Hour of 13 -333 Review
Hour of 13 seemed to be a band on the rise following the release of its last album, 2010’s The Ritualist. On the strength of that release the band was signed to Earache Records, which …
Bedemon – Symphony Of Shadows Review
Originally written by Matt Longo One thing that Geof O’Keefe is sure to clarify: He cannot speak accurately about the meaning behind many Bedemon lyrics, due to the demise of founder Randy Palmer. Such is …
Katatonia – Dead End Kings Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Katatonia has made a career out of defying the odds. They are one of the only bands in metal history that stripped most of the metallic elements from their sound …
Serpentine Path – Serpentine Path Review
Sound can get you a hell of a long way. Nail a particular tone, and you might just get the listener in a forgiving state of mind where other shortcomings are concerned. And you know …
Ufomammut – Oro:Opus Alter Review
I struggled with the scoring of this album more than I can remember doing so for any other record in quite some time. I attribute this mostly to the fact that I felt it might …
Evoken – Atra Mors Review
Summon a forest in your mind. Walk in that forest for a long time, and feel the warmth. It’s a cold kind of warmth, the kind that never seems to rise up much past the …
Cairn – Raise The Cairn Review
It’s always nice when the one-man side project doesn’t end up sounding like a wafer-thin version of the full ensemble. Case in point: Cairn, the sole creation of Samu Rahn, guitarist in Chicago’s prog/doomster act …