Tag Candlemass
A new Runemagick album is always a source of great pleasure for me. One of the most prolific, yet still obscure bands since the turn of the century, the masters of dread atmosphere have been plying their wares since the… Continue Reading →
In this world there is a certain type of person who is always looking for some new thrill, some new experience, never apparently satisfied with their lot, and always flitting about like a hummingbird in search of their next hit… Continue Reading →
I don’t know if it’s just me but I have the sneaking suspicion that true doom (or traditional if you like) is doing its phoenix act again and rising from a death like slumber to avoid association with other sub-genres… Continue Reading →
Canadian doom duo Tribunal hail from Vancouver and consist of the two talented multi-instrumentalists Soren Mourne and Etienne Flinn. Both Mourne and Flinn handle vocal duties, blending melancholic and haunting cleans with blackened rasps and deathly inspired screams whilst a… Continue Reading →
Epic Doom, what is it good for? Absolutely everything, of course. I do love me a nice slab of epic doom, being a huge fan of Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, Solstice…the list goes on. So, when Doomocracy were advertised as being… Continue Reading →
When the esteemed editor of the site you are currently reading told me I was to receive an album by a “True Norwegian” band where each track was laden with demonic imagery and anti-religious bile I was worried that I… Continue Reading →
“An Age of Penance and Oblivion” is a debut album from the depths of Derbyshire in the UK that has been fermenting and maturing since the 2017 inception of Doom Metal duo Pilgrim of Fire. This month sees the culmination… Continue Reading →
The great Finnish doom band Spiritus Mortis has been in existence since 1987, and ever since that time have been plugging away producing quality classic slow metal. I last encountered the lads with their superb 2016 album, “The Year is… Continue Reading →
Taz Danozoglou has a great pedigree and it surprised me that he seemed to be musically quiet for so long. Obviously he is known as a renowned tattooist and his time in Electric Wizard but I really really dug Satan’s Wrath whose “Galloping Blasphemy“… Continue Reading →
EPs, demos, whatever you want to call a release these days you can pretty much get away with it. For me though an EP is exactly that an Extended Play, an extension of previous work, or in better circumstances the… Continue Reading →
OK here’s something strange in your neighbourhood. A 20-minute E.P, both tracks EXACTLY 10 minutes long. Not 9:52 and 10:05 but both bang on the ten-minute mark. I know that should not effect me as much as it has but as a DJ I spend a lot of my… Continue Reading →
Nobody does Doom Metal quite like Sweden. Yes, Sweden gave the world Candlemass so a precedent was set right there, but since then this great country has given the Metal world so many more striking bands under that Doom-soaked umbrella…. Continue Reading →