My Dying Bride – The Cry Of Mankind (Song Review)
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
6M ago
“You can’t expect to see him and survive” On The Cry Of Mankind, Yorkshire’s My Dying Bride take an extremely simple but eerie guitar motif and build a monumentally dark, symphonic beast of a song out of it. It’s a masterpiece that manages to remain refined and elegant while still filling you with existential dread ..read more
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Album Of The Day: Celtic Frost – Into The Pandemonium
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
7M ago
Celtic Frost – Into The Pandemonium (Noise Records – 1987) On its release in 1987, Celtic Frost’s third album Into The Pandemonium achieved instant fame as a ground-breaking work of avant-garde ambition. Notoriously, Frost kicked off the album with an unexpectedly playful cover of Wall Of Voodoo’s Mexican Radio, brought in a soul singer for the should-have-been hit I Won’t Dance (The Elder’s Orient) and went all n-n-n-nineteen on the bonkers One In Their Pride. But the band also continued their established style with aplomb on formidable black thrash songs like Inner Sanctum and there were sum ..read more
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Album Of The Day: Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
7M ago
Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre (Earache Records – 1995) Cathedral sound like they’re having a blast on 1995’s The Carnival Bizarre which is remarkable because a) you don’t normally associate bowel-loosening doom with good times and b) the band were just coming out of a frustrating stint as a major label act that resulted in the departure of talented guitarist Adam Lehan. But the band’s remaining guitarist Gaz Jennings takes up the slack on Cathedral’s third album, delivering a masterclass in doom riffing Sab-otage. The opening three tracks Vampire Sun, Hopkins (The Witchfinder General) and U ..read more
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Primordial – Gods To The Godless
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
8M ago
“We are your cross to bear” On Gods To The Godless, the first song proper on their third album Spirit The Earth Aflame, Ireland’s Primordial nail the unique pagan metal style they will become renowned for: weighty black metal with rolling, folky rhythms and A.A. Nemtheanga’s impassioned vocals. Gods To The Godless is similar in topic to Bathory’s seminal One Rode To Asa Bay but where that song depicted a subjugated, converted Norse community with sympathy, Gods To The Godless takes the viewpoint of the oppressor. And Nemtheanga spits outs threatening declarations with spine-chilling intensit ..read more
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Album Of The Day: Manowar – Into Glory Ride
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
9M ago
Manowar – Into Glory Ride (Music For Nations -1983) Titter at the cover and giggle at the video for Gloves Of Metal if you must. We’ve all done it. But the seething Hatred, the awe-inspiring Gates Of Valhalla and the equal parts murderous and heartrending March For Revenge (By The Soldiers Of Death) are some of the most monumental epic doom tracks you will ever hear. And if that drop-tuned intro riff to Gloves Of Metal doesn’t send you into a paroxysm of true metal joy then you are not my friend. Into Glory Ride will crush your bones and kill your face. So wipe that smile off it ..read more
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Album Of The Day: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
1y ago
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Vertigo 1970) Each one of the first six Black Sabbath albums has enjoyed a spell as my favourite Sabs record. At the moment though, it’s the groundbreaking 1970 debut that takes the top spot. The evil riffing is timeless, Ozzy’s voice sounds uniquely mournful and I love every note of Tony Iommi jamming away on The Warning while everyone else has nipped to the pub. And, in case the cover’s upside-down cross, haunted watermill and iconic magical, mystical woman aren’t Hammer Horror enough for you, Black Sabbath captures the Brummies at their most atmospheric and sp ..read more
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Reverend Bizarre – Burn In Hell!
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
1y ago
“An apostle of all misery” Gather and give praise at the Holy Parish of True Doom. Here’s Reverend Bizarre and Burn In Hell!, the opening track from their 2002 debut In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend. This is doom at its most pious and humongous: pushing the style to its saturnine and elephantine limits while staying true to the traditional form and vibe of genre pioneers like Saint Vitus and Pentagram. The eight-minute song only has about three riffs but a shift in mood from minor to phrygian keeps things evil and interesting and Albert Witchfinder’s operatic, admonishing croon and the ..read more
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Opeth – The Twilight Is My Robe
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
1y ago
“You are the embodiment of pure freedom” The lengthy, linear songs, relentless changes and a lack of repetition make Opeth’s debut album Orchid a tough nut to crack but it’s well worth the effort. Here’s one of the album’s best and most accessible tracks, The Twilight Is My Robe. It’s brilliant questing stuff that gallops across rolling Maidenesque hills, ventures through bleak forests of gothic doom and rests its weary head in a dingly dell of acoustic enchantment. It’s astonishing to think this band hadn’t been in a proper studio before they recorded this. It’s audacious, ambitious stuff f ..read more
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HMO Digest – 2nd February 2023
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
1y ago
With pesky January out of the way, it seems like a good time to have a wee catch-up on all things HMO. Recent Posts 2023 got off to a galloping good start with Tyrant and their righteous NWOBHM single Hold Back The Lightning. On the softer rock side, I’ve been talking about Marillion and Journey. Marillion’s Holidays In Eden got me wondering about albums with shite title tracks… can you think of any? And the comment scuttlebutt seems to be that Wheel In The Sky is the best Journey song. It’s official! On the more extreme end of things I’ve selected songs from Napalm Death and Testament and I’v ..read more
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Avatarium – Death, Where Is Your Sting
Heavy Metal Overload » Doom Metal
by Heavy Metal Overload
1y ago
“But I know I’m in your calendar” I don’t know what the UK Christmas Number One was last year but mine was Avatarium’s Death, Where Is Your Sting. Taken from the album of the same name, Death, Where Is Your Sting is one of the Swedish band’s most affecting and memorable songs: dark, sumptuous pop with a doomy bottom end and a stirring vocal performance from Jennie-Ann Smith. I treated myself to the album in December and listened to it tons over the holidays. Mostly because it’s tremendous but also because its lush Scandi-mood made it the perfect soundtrack for 2022’s other festive obsession ..read more
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