8 years after the near perfect ‘The Year is One’, one of the longest running Finnish doom acts Spiritus Mortis has returned with a new lineup and a fifth album ‘The Great Seal’, easing down a bit on the heavy doom riffery and replacing it with simply epic sounding heavy metal. Out on Svart Records since last Friday.

Finnish neoclassical symphonic melodeath outfit Clamoris are releasing their debut album ‘Opus Limbonica’ next month via Inverse Records and shared a last single with ‘The Bite of the Cosmic Snake’!

Dutch death/doom quartet Graceless’ third album ‘Chants from Purgatory’ stands as the band’s most memorable album to date. To be released on September 30 via Raw Skull Recordz.

Italian brutal tech death outfit Antropofagus premiered ‘Hymns of Acrimony’ with a visceral video, first track from the upcoming album ‘Origin’ out next month via Agonia Records!

7 epic singles again selected by us of last week with Psychonaut, Before The Dawn, Black Mirrors, Wednesday 13, Sowulo, Ciemra and Skyforger! Highly recommended to check them out if you haven’t yet!

Canadian heavy doom hitters Cauchemar make your fantasy dreams come true on their third offering ‘Rosa Mystica’. Out on Temple of Mystery Records.

On a Sunday autumn evening in Finland we saw total Polish death metal takeover of On The Rocks Helsinki with Vader, Hate and Thy Disease at on of the stops on the “Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022”! For a Sunday, there was quite the massacre unleashed in the pit!

Ukrainian black metal project Drudkh unveiled the new track ‘November’ and announced the upcoming new album ‘All Belong to the Night’ to be released in November via Season of Mist!

Denmark’s trio Dead Void debuts its first studio album ‘Volatile Forms’ which offers a primitive and sluggish death doom take on this sub-genre, if you are into classic albums of 90’s doom metal then this is for you. Out via Me Saco Un Ojo and Dark Descent Records on September 15.

The legendary Finnish band Before The Dawn premiered another brand new single/video with ‘Downhearted’ and announced to be officially back, working on a full new album!