Tag: Doom
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 …
Conan – Monnos Review
originally written by Juho Mikkonen In short, Monnos is exactly the kind of album over which a sizable portion of the Roadburn market blows their load. It’s completely devoid of lead guitar. Its best riffs …
Coven – Worship New Gods Review
As metal fans, I think we are all, to some extent, treasure hunters; we love to discover new music. After all, finding new metal to listen to is most likely the reason you come to …
Samothrace – Reverence To Stone Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Unfortunately, many doom, drone, or sludge-oriented bands use extended songs and / or sparse compositional tactics as unwieldy splints for their underdeveloped songwriting sinews. In the worst — or best, …
Aldebaran – Embracing The Lightless Depths Review
Portland’s Aldebaran has progressively schlepped its overall sound further and further away from the more ‘sludgy’ roots that bound their impressive 2007 debut into a fully functioning funereal death doom band bent on depressing the …
Ereb Altor – Gastrike Review
Originally written by Matt Longo As I imported Gastrike into iTunes, the genre came up as “Viking Doom Metal”, when their last album The End registers as “Epic Viking Doom Metal”… so what does this …