Tag: Doom
Elliott’s Keep – In Medias Res Review
Solitude Aeturnus will always be the first name in Texas doom metal, but in Elliott’s Keep, I believe I have found the second. The story of Elliott’s Keep begins with another Texas doom metal band …
Battlefields – Thresholds Of Imbalance Review
Originally written by Michael Roberts. While we spend the coming weeks (or months) taking in Wavering Radiant and deciding where it ranks in the Isis discography, the newer batch of slow-and-heavy post-metallers are releasing some exciting stuff of their own. …
Gnaw – This Face Review
God, what an awesome racket… And I use “awesome” there predominantly in the sense of “impressive” or “astounding” than in the sense of “kick-ass,” although Gnaw certainly kicked my ass, but more in the sense …
Forsaken – After The Fall Review
A little ways off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea rests the densely populated island of Malta. Tourists come to experience the nation’s varied historical influence, along with visiting the nearby Megalithic Temples …
My Dying Bride – For Lies I Sire Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas There are only a few bands that are truly iconic in metal — Sabbath, Morbid Angel, Slayer, Metallica, etc. Within the sub-genre of doom metal, England’s My Dying Bride are …
Urna – Iter Ad Lucem Review
Metal has long been embraced as a metaphor for darkness, and funeral doom may be its most effective vehicle, as its crushing heaviness and ponderous pace instantiate at once the blighting of sight, sound and …
Isole – Silent Ruins Review
These Swedes are quickly becoming one of the more prolific acts in the epic doom metal genre. 2008 not only saw the release of Bliss of Solitude, but Bryntse and Olsson’s epic doom take on …
Pantheist – Journey Through Lands Unknown
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Pantheist’s Journey Through Lands Unknown is a tough album to dissect; there are way too many things going on here, and they range from the outright awful to surprisingly promising. Unfortunately for …