Tag Funeral Doom
‘Nomas’, the 3rd album from Italian blackened funeral doomsters Arcana Coelestia, has finally arrived after a long and difficult labour. Stuck in development hell over four years largely due to personal difficulties within the band, matters were finally resolved when… Continue Reading →
This is the third album from Russia’s doomy and heavily atmosphere orientated Septic Mind. This one, whose titles I’ve anglicised from their Cyrillic version, studies “the problems of insanity in modern society and apocalyptic expectations”. Deep and deathly tones resound… Continue Reading →
The first thing that struck about this album was the fact that I was actually holding it in my hands. Second was the quality of the digipack box containing it. I guess I’m just getting nostalgic for tactile music, but… Continue Reading →
Johan Ericson likes to keep himself busy, so when he is not doing his day job playing guitar for Draconian he has a number of other ways of keeping his creative side occupied. Alongside mixing and producing duties and session… Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago I came across this Ukrainian lot via their debut, A Key To Panngrieb and was suitably impressed by its promise. Funeral doom, orchestrated sound but a heavy Skepticism debt. So when this dropped in I… Continue Reading →
Thergothon. Skepticism. Tyranny. All reasons why the mere description ‘Finnish funeral doom’ had me clamouring to hear this album. Profetus do not disappoint. Their style is utterly, crushingly leaden, yet at the same time delicate and airy, with penetrating church-organ-like… Continue Reading →
Sometimes discovering a funeral doom band is a little bit like stumbling into someone’s dingy, all but forgotten dwelling. A dust-filled, grainy backroom with four or five huddled bodies, solemn faces and pitted instruments making their way to some sonic… Continue Reading →
I’ve been a long-time fan of Solitude Productions approach to business, clearly sticking to what they know and trying to give wider exposure to the bands they put their weight behind. I’ve discovered many excellent artists within the doom spectrum… Continue Reading →
It was just a month or so ago whilst doing some high level procrastination (rearranging my CD collection) I happened upon my copy of Shattered Hope’s excellent debut album ‘Absence’ and I wondered what had happened to them since. Clearly… Continue Reading →
The first few moments of opening song ‘Boreas’ make you think that with Wijlen Wij you’re in for some serious Skepticism worship as the organ swells with the riff and fills the room. But then the clean vocals come in… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the night and all who dwell in it. I guess that could be the basic premise here but as the artwork shows night has not quite fallen yet and we are in that crepuscular void between light and… Continue Reading →
It’s never easy to remain completely anonymous in the Internet age and as many will agree a lot of the mystique has disappeared with bands eventually finding themselves unmasked. We are naturally not talking about the big arena playing group’s… Continue Reading →