Tag Death Doom
This is Vuolla’s first full length release, and it is indeed an epic affair. If I told you that Vuolla were from a rural town in Southern Finland, surrounded by lakes, I wonder if you could guess the genre? Give… Continue Reading →
In 2014, the Finnish three-piece Vainaja introduced the world to its conceptual death-doom. Their debut, ‘Kadotetut’, was a real eye/ear opener for this listener with its combination of mammoth, memorable tracks and overarching themes centred on the sermons of one… Continue Reading →
There are five and a half million people living in Finland, and around 3,650 heavy metal bands from Finland listed on Metal Archives. By removing pensioners and young people who can’t have a recording contract yet, by my ready reckoning,… Continue Reading →
From Dust to Rust … my first encounter with Irish doomsters was their 2001 album “Dust”, after the band came to my attention on recommendation and I bought it. This one is now album number 6. Inevitable comparisons can be… Continue Reading →
If you can imagine a Minotaur crawling through a swamp during a tempestuous storm in 1256 then you can pretty much envisage just how dark, heavy and medieval Gateway’s self-titled debut release is. Packed chock full of crushing riffs and… Continue Reading →
Let’s face it, 2015 has been a shit year for doom – sure, we’ve been inundated with boring stoner metal that dons a redneck trucker hat and follows the same cookie cutter formula of rip off, up tempo Sabbath and… Continue Reading →
Having fallen into the gloomy pit of Nightfell’s first collection of post-apocalyptic dirges last year I was looking forward to having my hopes and dreams dashed against their gigantic riffs and off-beat melodies for a second time. While I wouldn’t… Continue Reading →
Continuing Pierre Laube’s distorted vision of doom infested death metal is his fourth release and still possesses that despairing atmosphere of utter dread. Thematically the album is similar to the last one with the cover art being a nightmarish scene… Continue Reading →
I really enjoyed the last debut album ‘Ashes To Ashes’ by one man act Luna. This Ukrainian project is the work of DeMort also of Amily and Ashes was a one track epic near hour long instrumental feast. Although that… Continue Reading →
My last visitation to the world of The Dead was their 2nd album from 2009 ‘Ritual Executions’ which I actually reviewed in the pre-Ave Noctum ‘Ye Olde Metal Team UK’ days, lapping up their twisted doomy take on death metal…. Continue Reading →
Self-releasing all but one of their first five releases, these fly-by-wire monsters from Ohio are a bit of a rare find. With few having heard their suffocating wall-of-death sound before, it’s a delight to finally wrap ears around it. Well,… Continue Reading →
Cult Of Endtime was formed from the ashes of death/thrash outfit Discard in 2010. With two demos behind them so far, the Finns have at last completed their debut album for Svart Records; an record which their label describes as… Continue Reading →