In the pursuit of appreciating death-doom, I strive to see what I can find underneath the surface. Ataraxie is a band I had heard about, but never listened to anything they released. Curious about their brand of death-doom, I decided ..read more

It seems I am slowly scratching the surface of what I like to call “underground death-doom” – bands who play this genre of music but not are a well-known mainstream name. Below your Paradise Losts and your Swallow the Suns ..read more

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Is this Thursday going a bit too quietly for you? It sure is for me. Well, let’s change that for the both of us, shall we? We’ve got a new video from Chicago-based doom crew, ÇÖKÜŞ, that should do just that. The band’s debut full-length, An Hour of Lies, won’t be out until later this summer, but we’re pumped to premiere the video for its second single, “Midnight Sun,” here with you today. If you’re feeling in the mood for some old-school, Sabbath or Obsessed flavored heavy doom, click the link below and check it out! — — Having previously plied their trades in bands like Earthen Grave, Witch ..read more

Floridian post-metallers Pipe Dreamer just released their latest EP last week, The Past Is Just A Memory, and they’ve never married doom, sludge, and hyper emotional delivery quite like this. Add in the fact that they enlisted heavyweights Billy Anderson to mix and Brad Boatwright to master, and you know this sound will land in all the right ways. You can read up on Corey’s full reaction to the album in his review here. In addition, however, we also had the chance to pose our set of Profile questions to the band and guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist Zack Jones, who was kind enough to fire bac ..read more

For me, death-doom has always been a genre that I associate with Finland, as they are masters of deep melancholy and heartbreak. However, this year I decided to get out of my comfort zone and try to see what other strains of death-doom exist and what they sound like. After finding out how great Faroese death-doom is, I heard that Spanish band Golgotha were going to release a new album. Curiosity piqued, and I decided to dive into Spreading the Wings of Hope and see what Spain had to offer to the realm of death-doom. First track “For Every Tear” starts off slow and somber, before picking up t ..read more

Psychedelia virtuosos REZN, who are known for adding prog, shoegaze, and sonic ethereals to their heavy sound, are here with their fifth album and last piece in a two-part series, Burden. Recorded alongside their 2023 release, this album offers a darker and denser experience acting as the black swan to their white swan, Solace. While Solace drew upon uplifting themes and emotions accompanied by dreamy melodies, Burden centers on themes of delirium, claustrophobia, and misery while focusing on riffs and heavier, more demanding sounds over atmosphere. The two are undeniably different ..read more

There are bands that are slaves to genre, and bands beholden to none. The journey from the first to the second can often be rife with fractures both small and large, but thankfully Pennsylvania’s Crypt Sermon have charted a true path over the course of three albums. Their latest, The Stygian Rose, arrives with phantom tendrils that lead back to their doom and traditional roots, but the trail is littered with cast aside homages and influences, all prefixes abandoned in favor of the one, the only word that matters. Metal. Of the most righteous kind. Since 2015’s debut Out of the Garden the band ..read more

Photo by Evan Hunter McKnight It might have taken The Illusion Of Time, the sophomore full-length from New York City death/doom crew Funeral Leech, a full four years to follow up Death Meditation, but now that we’ve had a month and a half to absorb this monster it’s safe to say that wait was well worth it. Out through Carbonized Records, this collection is one of the stronger death ‘n’ doom efforts we’ve come across so far this year, and it happens to leave quite the lingering impact. The Illusion Of Time is suffocatingly dense, to the point that getting sucked into its darkness as a listener ..read more