Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
Asphodelus’s second full length album ‘Sculpting the Time’ embodies the archaic haunting melancholy of doom death metal. The songwriting continues in the vein of the first studio album and fuses the dismal sound with a perfect dim atmosphere. Out on August 25 via Hammerheart Records.
In case you missed out on the original birth death doom as a genre or are just feeling a bit nostalgic, have a listen to Asphodelus’ “Stygian Dreams” which takes you back to the mythical times of the early nineties
