Though he would maintain a front-facing presence in Swiss death metallers Requiem for nearly a decade, bassist and sometimes […]
traditional doom metal
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Like so many other metal sub-genres the defining traits of doom metal have dissolved into meaningless dispute though […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of November in the […]
Arisen in service to the psychic swamp of seventies appreciation in the relative freedom of the mid-nineties came […]
Sudden and unexpected death, or rather the trauma of loss, has a way of freezing time and shaking […]
A certain majority of the artists that previously formed the wave that would resurrect the lanky corpse of […]
The history of this unassuming horror inspired doom metal album would only seem tragic if you’d never spent […]
The first ten years of releases from Lee Dorrian‘s still-ripping Rise Above Records might have began with intermittent […]
As Portland’s hand-crafted, artisinal stoner doom scene blossoms like a thousand fluttering 18th century bosoms at a naval […]
Though Robespierre tapes would make their way onto the internet as old friends documented their rarities digitally, their […]
The legendary traditions of Italian doom metal are deeply ingrained into my brain thanks to innovative masters like […]
As a kid my brother’s uninformed and admittedly random purchases from metal and punk mail-order distros often ended […]
As death and doom metal permutations have evolved back into modern depressive extreme metal fashion so comes a […]
The first Hooded Priest album ‘Devil Worship Reckoning’ was this huge, gnarly metal beast with a fuzz-chunky loud […]
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 […]
The latest from this unassuming Arizona based doom metal band is one of the biggest surprises of the […]
Alan and Terry Jones’ Pagan Altar had something special in their hands from their inception in 1977. Pagan […]
