Baroness – <em>Purple</em>
Black (album) and Blue (album) all over (again) Continue reading…
View ArticleKrallice – <em>Hyperion</em>
The surprise EP that tells us why they went away Continue reading…
View ArticleGhostlimb – <em>Difficult Loves</em>
Ghostlimb’s most accessible, consistently hooky album to date Continue reading…
View ArticleOranssi Pazuzu – ‘Varahtelija’
Begging the question: Is this black metal anymore? Is this metal at all? Continue reading…
View ArticleEight Bells – ‘Landless’
Unlike any other doom LP we have heard all year Continue reading…
View ArticlePanopticon & Waldgefluster – ‘Panopticon/Waldgefluster’ (Split Album Premiere)
This is what friends are for Continue reading…
View ArticleChurch of Misery – ‘And Then There Were None’
Sole original member teams with Scott Carlson of Repulsion for another perfect slice of serial killer doom Continue reading…
View ArticleUniverse 217 – ‘Change’
The western world deserves to hear Greece's finest experimental doom Continue reading…
View ArticleBeastwars – ‘The Death of All Things’
At the brink of destruction they release their most varied album yet. Continue reading…
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Ghostlimb – Difficult Loves
… Ghostlimb are that guy you knew in high school who was super smart and naturally athletic; the kind of guy capable of kicking your ass both physically and mentally who went on to play football at...
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Oranssi Pazuzu –‘Varahtelija’
… Through its use of odd-time signatures and long periods of improvised jamming, psychedelic music in the 1960s challenged the notion that art should follow the same conventional expectations of...
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Eight Bells –‘Landless’
… Whether it is the pure, straight from the vein stuff like Saint Vitus or the experimental unease of Neurosis, the best doom metal encapsulates and projects the feeling of loss and utter lack of...
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Crusty Old Toad –‘Nefarious Occurrence’
… Once upon a time in a rainy city there lived the editor of a little website about heavy metal who received entirely too many promotional emails full of music. So many bands sent him their music that...
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Panopticon & Waldgefluster –‘Panopticon/Waldgefluster’ (Split Album Premiere)
… Given the genre’s praise for the individual, the concept of companionship, family, and black metal should ideologically mix about as well as gin and milk. From Burzum’s night clad “Dunkelheit” (or...
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Church of Misery –‘And Then There Were None’
… Sweat-drenched August nights, warm beer, dried blood: it’s amazing how music can evoke our senses, memories and emotions in such a specific way. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be our own...
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Universe 217 –‘Change’
… Through the various full-lengths, collaborations and EPs, Greece’s Universe 217 has proved that they are masters of an emotional, experimental edge of the doom spectrum. That much becomes apparent...
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Beastwars –‘The Death of All Things’
… There’s nothing subtle about the title of Beastwars’ latest album, The Death of All Things. This release concludes the post-apocalyptic trilogy that the New Zealand-based sludge band began on their...
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Holy Grove –‘Holy Grove’
… I despise the term ‘stoner rock’ and would love to have it stricken from the public lexicon. Instead of correctly identifying modern acts as the rightful contenders to the fuzzed out hard rock...
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