Tag doom
Brummie five-piece Opium Lord gained huge recognition with their 2013 EP ‘The Calendrical Cycle – Prologue: The Healer’, managing to catch the attention of Candlelight who signed the band last summer, and it’s through them that the band release debut… Continue Reading →
Formed in 2013, Heavydeath was created with one refreshingly unpretentious objective: to create no frills “heavy death” music. And so far the Swedish trio – who boast a wealth of experience in more frantic bands including Runemagick, Sacrementum and Necrocurse… Continue Reading →
Are you a fan of doom, but prefer the near operatic scope of Candlemass than the fist in your face snarl of Wino? Not fond of tales of depression, murder, and substance abuse, but happy to listen to songs with… Continue Reading →
There are a number of issues I suffer from that in the modern idiom are described as “first world problems”: I’ve too many gig t-shirts to store easily; all the CDs I have are outgrowing their storage; and there are… Continue Reading →
The French have a habit of throwing curveballs into whatever purist theme tries to assert itself in extreme metal but, even by Gallic standards, Decline Of The I is a CD-sized can of worms. First of all, this is a… Continue Reading →
Poland, musically a land of extremity, be it ‘Hate’ filled, church burning black death or absolute unforgiving grinding carnage. When it comes to doom and certainly that which is of the funeral orientated style it probably is not a country… Continue Reading →
‘Brothers of the Sonic Cloth’, the eponymous debut release from a trio of veteran Seattle doomsters is not easy listening; let’s face it, uneasy listening would be a better description of this unflinching slab of brutality. ‘Lava’ opens the album… Continue Reading →
Whilst it is a band new to me, Finland’s Abbot apparently have the best part of a shared twenty year history that encompasses stints as a covers band, punk, hardcore, metal, and acoustic folk before it all came together in… Continue Reading →
In the mainstream rock press, and to a lesser extent the mainstream music press in general, there has been a fair amount of chat regarding comments made by Kiss’s own Gene Simmons, and his opinion of rock being dead, and… Continue Reading →
Apparently this is something new, broken down into reduced compounds. I guess that means this French lot don’t care for being pigeonholed and to be fair they have right mixed up sounds and styles taking in everything from electronics, through… Continue Reading →
Thinking back to 2009, when Krakow first emerged from Bergen, Norway (despite being named after a Polish city), their debut ‘Monolith’ didn’t really tread any new ground, but was a promising slab of weighty stoner/doom metal that spoke of huge… Continue Reading →
When I read that Momentum are from Iceland and play post-metal, I immediately had visions of the recreation of vast expanses and lunar landscapes. To their credit and my shame, they don’t follow such a bland stereotype. “The Freak is… Continue Reading →