Hailing from Cagliari, Italy five-piece sludge band The Blacktones have really gone places with their alterna-metal/sludge hybrid that […]
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This four piece psychedelic doom metal band from Denver offer their first set of songs in the form […]
The psychedelic fractal skies of ‘Metempsychosis’ are nothing more than an Anglerfish-like lure to Nest’s monstrous, hideous sludgescapes. Nest’s […]
Ilsa’s long history of slowly mutating sludge metal has run the gamut of hardcore and Amebix influenced doom […]
As a kid my brother’s uninformed and admittedly random purchases from metal and punk mail-order distros often ended […]
If you’d only ever skipped through this Uppsala, Sweden doom metal band’s debut in digital form then you […]
SoCal sludge/doom newcomers Sixes sound confident enough on their rumbling, gravel-toned debut full-length ‘Methisopheles. Their straightforward and minimal […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of January in the […]
As death and doom metal permutations have evolved back into modern depressive extreme metal fashion so comes a […]
If you don’t know who this dude is you’re probably not having enough fun with metal in 2018. […]
Italian Doom metal and it’s many horror themed psychedelic doorways offers the kind of gloom and terror that, […]
The heaving, psychedelic, riff driven sludge of Coffin Torture’s debut full-length ‘Dismal Planet’ is as flattening and aggressive […]
Back in 2004 on my eternal quest to listen to every single thrash metal album released from 1983 […]
The first Hooded Priest album ‘Devil Worship Reckoning’ was this huge, gnarly metal beast with a fuzz-chunky loud […]
For a debut from newcomers Æsthetica’s ‘Sonorous Æon’ offers somewhat bold and occasionally misguided experimentation with psychedelia, atmospherics, and […]
Doom metal is a sub-genre that has gained so many tentacles that it’d be difficult to pay homage […]
Another brilliant doom metal album in a veritable sea of excess releases. It’s a blessing and a damn […]
Paul Chain is dead. Or let’s say his gentrified stage/band name from the late 70’s until 2003 was […]
At some point loving a time tested sub-genre of heavy metal like thrash metal or doom causes one […]
I’ve been a fan of these guys from the earliest days of Runemagick‘s melodic black/death metal to their […]
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