As every year in August, there will be another edition of the biggest metal festival in Czech. The organisers are confirming more bands who will play on four stages between 6th and 9th August 2025.. The location remains unchanged and it is the Josefov fortress in the town of Jaromer. This time, the line up ..read more

  On Saturday, August 12th, 2023, Triptykon delivered an epic live set as special guests to headliner Meshuggah at Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2023. The Swiss extreme metal pioneers unleashed a haunting and mesmerizing performance that left the audience spellbound. Triptykon’s sound is a unique blend of black, death, and doom metal, with influences ..read more

    Warping Structure by BLACK WOUND   Following a trio of demos, a split, and an EP since their formation in 2021, Sweden’s BLACK WOUND at last reveal their debut full-length “Warping Structure” on CD by Chaos Records, consisting of six tracks of dense, murky, cavernous death metal. Clocking in at just over 40 ..read more

  IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS present MOON INCARNATE’s striking debut album “Hymns to the Moon” on CD and Vinyl LP formats.   Release: 22 March 2024   Hymns to the Moon by Moon Incarnate    MOON INCARNATE are a new band of old souls, forged with single-minded focus. The band features the duo of Christian Kolf (Valborg) and Matin Vasari (Beyondition), who together wrote, recorded, and produced their debut album over the course of two years in their hometown of Bonn, Germany, with Peter Scartabello (Sky Shadow Obelisk) recording his drum tracks in Providence, Rhode Island ..read more

  Ecclesia Militans by Ecclesia  On March 8th internationally, Aural Music present second album of France’s Ecclesia “Ecclesia Militans”. Ecclesia play dark & epic HEAVY METAL heavily influenced by traditional doom. Since their formation as a trio in 2016, this now-fully-formed army of French Inquisitors released the demo Witchfinding Metal of Doom in 2017 and the Aural Music-released debut album De Ecclesiæ Universalis in 2020 for all the sinners around the globe.   Photo Credit: Stéphanie Pitino   Armed with purifying fire, blessed swords, and Holy Rage, Ecclesia’s l ..read more

DEEPER DOWN play gothic doom metal with female and male vocals. Promo for the new single The Dreamer (November 2019) – Violin: Alessandro – Femal Vocals: MoonChild – Drums : Ettore – Guitars, Keyboards & Vocals: Giuseppe Filmed & edited by Valentina Ferro https://deeperdown-web.bandcamp.com/releases https://www.facebook.com/deeperdownweb ..read more

GREY SKIES FALLEN will self-release “Cold Dead Lands” on January 24, 2020. Cold Dead Lands is the 5th studio album from the New York-based doom/death metal band in a 23-year career. “Cold Dead Lands” was recorded at Audio Playground and Engineered by Keith Moore, produced by GREY SKIES FALLEN. Dan Swanö (NIGHTINGALE, ex-EDGE OF SANITY, ex-BLOODBATH) mixed and mastered the album at his Unisound Studio. Travis Smith (OPETH, NEVERMORE, KATATONIA) created the artwork. Dan Gargiulo (REVOCATION, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN) and Will Smith (BUCKSHOT FACELIFT, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN, AFTERBIRTH) appear as guests. Watc ..read more

A doom metal monstrosity arises from the abyss. Six conjurations devoted to the ancient ones and the master of Providence. Crushing riffs grip like tentacles and drag into hypnotizing horror. For fans of Ramesses, 11 Paranoias, Electric Wizard and Serpentine Pat. https://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/cthulhuss-cthulhu-cult ..read more

Heathen Tribes are an underground music label offering mail order services and distribution out of Berlin, Germany. Cassettes, CDs, vinyl and digital downloads are all formats available to purchase. Various metallic styles are on display including black metal, death metal, doom, speed/thrash, power metal, traditional metal, etc. Heathen Tribe artists were not meant for the mainstream. Their bands often present raw, lo-fi production values with dark aesthetics. https://www.facebook.com/heathentribes/ https://heathentribes.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FflP2yMHsS7qa2rsxtEUA ..read more

Another Side Records, 2018 Music: Doom Gothic Metal / Black Doom Metal Website: https://metalscraprecords.bandcamp.com/album/locus-titanic-funus-never-pretend Duration: 67:05 minutes (9 tracks) Country: Russia   LOCUS TITANIC FUNUS (whose the name I would translate from Latin as the “Place of the Titanic destruction”) was created in 2010 in Moscow. “Never Pretend” is not their debut, because they previously released one full album in 2013. The music from the latest Russian album is full of Doom Metal spirit. The moods expressed in this way are melancholy, despair, collapse, hopelessness ..read more