News Posts

Finland’s melancholic goth doomsters Hanging Garden shared the new single ‘The First Sunrise’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘The Unending’, set for release in March with Agonia Records!

Dutch doom collective Ter Ziele are gearing up to release their debut album ‘Embodiment of Death’ via Tartarus Records later this month and just shared their new video and track ‘This Mortal Coil’!

After 13 years of silence, Rwake re-emerges from the Arkansas depths with new album ‘The Return Of Magik’, set for release in March via Relapse Records, and unveiled the massive title track with a captivating video!

Italian doomsters of Messa are set to release their new album ‘The Spin’ in April via Metal Blade Records and today share video single ‘At Races’!

Make sure to catch them playing their new album live in full at Roadburn or at summer fests like Alcatraz! Highly recommended!

Italian doom outfit Ponte Del Diavolo just announced their first European festival shows for 2025 at renown events like Inferno Metal Festival, Roadburn and Sonic Rites, after having released their haunting debut ‘Fire Blades from the Tomb’ via Season of Mist last year!

Danish doom unit Katla is set to release their debut album ‘Scandinavian Pain’ in March via Napalm Records and unleashed their first single ‘Taurus’!

Finnish melancholic metal heavyweights Dawn Of Solace dropped their crushing new track ‘Invitation’, another taste from their upcoming album ‘Affliction Vortex’, out next month via Noble Demon!

Italian doom/sludge wizards Di’Aul unveiled a lyric video for the first single ‘Tar Wings’ from their upcoming album ‘EvAAvE’, set for release via Minotauro Records in February!

Dawn of Solace is gearing up to release their 4th album ‘Affliction Vortex’ in February 2025 via Noble Demon and shared last week yet another single with ‘Fortress’!

Album Reviews

The masters of melancholic doom Dawn of Solace are back, get ready for the melancholic trip of your life on their latest release ‘Affliction Vortex’, out via Noble Demon tomorrow February 14!

Norwegian gothic/doom sextet Funeral conveys a sonic requiem on their seventh studio album “Gospel of Bones” out via Season of Mist since October 18th.

Tenth studio album “Sunraven” from these Swedish heavy doomsters conveys the majesty of Grand Magus and evokes a relentless quality, in sounding all-powerful, and majestic. Out since yesterday, October 18th, via Nuclear Blast!

Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album “Shining” mixes all the elements and ingredients of their recent works together, displaying the shifting tides of heaviness and a melodramatic style of gothic doom into again a milestone of excellence for the Finns, out tomorrow via Century Media Records.

The long-awaited second album “Ancient Doom Metal” by the Russian epic doom metal act Scald captures the pondering power of bands like Manowar and Candlemass, the mystical and a true Viking tradition in honor of Bathory. Out now via High Roller Records since last Friday, July 26th.

Know, oh prince, that in the years following their self-titled debut, there was an age undreamed of for Stygian Crown. Hither came ‘Funeral for a King’, their sophomore record, heavy riffed, soaringly vocaled. Fists in the air, with gigantic melodies and gigantic doom, to tread the beer-drenched stages of your summer festivals under their sandaled feet. Taken from the Cruz del Sur Chronicles.

Japanese death/doom four-piece Coffins return with their most anticipated album “Sinister Oath”, released on March 29th via Relapse Records, and deliver a dark and oppressive piece, highly recommended for fans of Autopsy, Asphyx, and Hooded Menace!

20 Buck Spin brings forth the full-length album “Chytridiomycosis Relinquished” of the Est Yorkshire death doom quintet Slimelord. The seven epic songs reach the peaks of innovative composition defining the mysteriousness of the music, out since last Friday!

Kings of cavernous death doom Spectral Voice return with one of the year’s most monolithic albums. “Sparagmos” borders into the spectral realms and portrays the band’s unique take in a more crushing and dismal manner, released via Dark Descent Records on February 9th.

Montréal-based death metal band Phobocosm shows great intellect in blending the modern dissonance with cavernous death doom style. The third album “Foreordained” was released via Dark Descent Records yesterday, December 8th.