Tag My Dying Bride
The beauty and the beast style of gothic doom is not an easy sound to master. Popularised by the likes of Draconian and Theatre of Tragedy (until that dingbat decided he wanted to be a robot), the key is the… Continue Reading →
Forget various other bands sporting this name, it is time to pop over to West Yorkshire for the only real Prophecy that means a damn in the world we dwell as far as I am concerned. There is something maybe… Continue Reading →
As the album title suggests, there’s a strong doom metal element in this work. Whilst occasional comparison can be drawn with My Dying Bride, Mourning Beloveth and so forth, Ukrainian band Amily create a broader base of patterns and progressions… Continue Reading →
Doom has ever been one of the more conservative genres of metal – by which I mean its evolution progresses at about the same pace as the average doom riff. With links to the progenitors of the entire music form,… Continue Reading →
Scroll down to bottom of review for photos! The annual Damnation Festival held in Leeds is, I think it is fair to say, the biggest indoor metal event in the North of England. Every year it sees a huge crowd… Continue Reading →
I first stumbled across Embrace of Silence a year or so ago when a friend introduced me to them via their last EP ‘Inspirational Songs’, and was quite impressed by what I heard. The number of Russian and Ukrainian doom… Continue Reading →
There has been a buzz about the tour embarked upon by the two main bands as it has hit many a venue up and down the country leaving social media with lots of jaw dropped statements about just how good… Continue Reading →
My first glimpse of Wedding In Hades was through the 2010 music video for their song ‘Widow’. The auguries were good. A bunch of miserable, ashen-faced blokes rocking out in a church to a moody mix of My Dying Bride,… Continue Reading →
‘Returning to the Primary Source’ is Graveflower’s first release, although it feels oddly like some overlooked and long out-of print relic, plucked from obscurity from some lofty shelf after years of gathering dust. This turns out to be at least… Continue Reading →
With a name that sounds like a Welsh marriage proposal, Llvme are actually from the Leonese region of Spainand their name is the regional word for fire. Purveyors of the finest Leonese folk doom, Llvme perform entirely in their regional… Continue Reading →
Amongst the usual stuff I think about, recently there has been the question as to what we actually mean by extreme metal. I wonder because it seems to have been reduced to “has been known to use ‘death’ vocals.” In… Continue Reading →