There probably aren’t many more popular doom acts than Arkansas crew Pallbearer. They made waves with a series of well-regarded releases in the late 2000’s and teens, but their last record was actually “Forgotten Days” back in 2020. Of course,… Continue Reading →
If you trawl the Ave Noctum archives then you will come across my review of this bands second album ‘Black Drapes For Tomorrow’ which I absolutely adored and still do as this unique Italian metal band often defies categorisation even… Continue Reading →
Five years on from their debut offering, a demo entitled ‘Bind Us As One’, UK Melodic Death/Doom quartet Elderseer have finally returned to us, and with a debut full length offering in tow no less. Entitled ‘Drowned in the Shallowness’,… Continue Reading →
Atmospheric and emotional doom here with a narrative of existential soul-searching. You probably worked that out by the band name already. This is a very personal project of Simon Bibby former member of Seventh Angel and My Silent Wake and… Continue Reading →
It’s “all wrong” or “all evil” as far as TodoMal, a duo from Castilla-La Mancha in Spain are concerned. Living in a region famed for Don Quixote “a placid and depressing desolate wasteland” and one described as being in ‘uninhabited… Continue Reading →
Something nasty is stirring in the West. Bristolians Moon Reaper have been mixing up the medicine to create a murky blend of dark sludge and progginess and the E.P. Descent is the fetid result. Dirty, heavy riffs from the get go, these 5 tracks are… Continue Reading →
This one is right on our fringes being described as Dark Doom Jazz but many facets of its sound cross over and it certainly struck as an interesting proposition. This is expanded even more as the main contributors to the… Continue Reading →
What to do, as a band, when you find yourself without a lead vocalist right before tracking should have started for your next release? Well, there are not many options. You can either despair, curse your bad luck and call… Continue Reading →
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