A Pale Horse Named Death is Sal Abruscato's band, so it's his musical fingerprint, and the band's sound and style is as distinct as his DNA. While it is true that Abruscato co...
For a great number of heavy metal fans, the career trajectory of Linkoping, Sweden's Ghost (or Ghost B.C. if you live in North America), has been one of the most exciting things...
Agrimonia was formed in 2005 in Gothenburg, Sweden. In late 2007 the first self titled album was recorded, and it was released the year after. During winter 2009/2010 the second...
Morning. It’s going to be a mighty hot day where I live. Maybe the latest album by Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats can cool me down? Genre: psychedelic rock/doom metal. Enjoy! Uncle...
As the recordings began to circulate so too did the rumours. Some said these two mysterious volumes, Vol.1 and Blood Lust were dug up from the ruins of an old abandoned barn...
With songs that range from relentless mid-tempo churns to subterranean crawls, Batillus cohere the extremes of heavy music into a surge of massive riffing, rolling over and...
Hello. The new album by Kongh was added to Spotify yesterday. Genre: doom/sludge metal. Enjoy! (Thanks to a reader for the tip!) (US version here.) Kongh – Sole Creation Filed...
Vertikal is thematically influenced by the film Metropolis and its hypnotic backdrop of machinery and repetition. "Before we started writing we were keen to find a theme that, in...
In the solemn and self-serious realm of post-metal, no band serves as a working template quite as much as Neurosis. For the last quarter century, the California group has blended...
Howdy. The critically acclaimed new album by Cult of Luna, added for some users earlier this week, now seems to be available worldwide. Genre: post-metal. Enjoy! (US version here...
The third full-length album from this Swiss doom/death band takes you on a musical journey that clocks in over an hour in length and features lyrics sung in English, Czech, and...
I'm going to try to make it through this review of Kowloon Walled City's great sophomore album, Container Ships, without using any variations of the following words: sludge, plod...
Kowloon Walled City's Container Ships shares similarities with the kind of "post-metal" that has often led to critical crossover success, mainly recalling early Isis, but when...
A gift: Four of Justin K. Broadrick's incredible sonic personalities on one impressive EP, titled simply Christmas . Jesu lays the foundation with the initial hymn, along with...
Lento's third full-length album has the immediacy of their previous release Earthen with the violence and aggressiveness of Icon . But Anxiety Despair Languish does something more...
You don't so much throw on a Nadja album as dunk your head in one; the smoggy haze of fuzz and scuzz that permeates the Berlin-based doom-gaze duo's albums is so relentless and...
Formed in 1999 in the forsaken fields of West-Flanders, Belgium, Amenra has conjured unholy masses and paved their own headstrong way ever since, spreading their vision of a world...
With each successive release, the Sword have pulled their music in two seemingly opposing directions: they've become more accessible, but they've also gotten weirder. There's...
Terrifying yet magnificent horror from a group getting doom metal so very right.
"Our legacy can only be assured if we continually burn down the past and plant seeds in the ashes," proclaims Neurosis guitarist-vocalist Steve Von Till in a trailer for the band...
More astounding, deep-thinking heaviness from metal's most inspiring philosopher-bummers.
Soon, Neurosis will be thirty years in the making. They may celebrate this coming of age with a mass idolatrous assembly. Deep in the murk and mire of a Lovecraftian tomb, they...
I’m glad Torche exists. I’m glad they write sludge pop metal tunes. I’m glad they can so effortlessly toss off songs. But mostly, I’m just glad they exist. Founded from the ashes...
Salt Lake City based heavy rock duo Eagle Twins' sophomore LP is finally upon us! Once again, they have created a true masterpiece that will devastate forward-thinking riff...
Morning. The latest album by progressive metal band Katatonia was recently added to Spotify. Enjoy! (Note: Not yet added for US listeners. Sorry.) (Version for AT, CH and DE here...
The Atlas Moth use bits of black metal-- and, really, everything, from stoner metal to psychedelic rock, free jazz to electric blues-- to make militantly adventurous music. The...
Samothrace are a frustrating band to love. Their debut LP, 2008's Life's Trade, was a landmark of modern American doom, even if no one knew it then. Nearly an hour's worth of...
Interesting (and sad) back story, star studded cast, and a wicked display of death/doom; that's the synopsis of VALLENFYRE's "A Fragile King". The best art is often created...
Hey. The fine debut album by Pallbearer, released back in February, looks like a very, very recent addition to Spotify. Genre: doom metal. Read this review and enjoy! Pallbearer...
On Yellow & Green, the Savannah, Georgia rock unit's sound continues to evolve in a similar fashion as their two previous color-themed albums. More
Good morning friends. From a very recent Spotify update comes the interesting new album by Baroness. Genre: progressive/sludge metal. Enjoy! (One review here) Baroness – Yellow...
When they started making burly, progressive sludge almost 10 years ago, Baroness weren't teenagers: They were grown men with a refined, nuanced approach to heavy metal. Even in...
Don't do the evolution: This occult-themed doom-metal duo continues to conjure classic Saint Vitus wonderfully.
It's OK if you need to laugh at Hour of 13: From their horror movie name to their most remarkable press photo, in which a pale, naked woman with her back to the camera kneels as...
Old Man Gloom's NO is a weird record. It's also a graceful, surprisingly catchy one. It's a complex, knotty collection that speaks to the members' hard-won confidence in each...
Middle-aged men from Isis, Converge, and Cave In play a gloomy, arty mix of their bands, with one dece acoustic jam.
The British doom trio locates the perfect guitar tone on its crushing new LP.
Conan is an incredible doom metal band from Liverpool, UK that has already drummed up quite the fan base for themselves. The band actively tours throughout Europe and is currently...
A bold move by a band who attempt to lay bare, with honesty, the emotions that emanate from loss, regret, pain and death.
NWOBHM, thrash riffs and Valhalla references aside, studly vocals are what make this trio’s fantasy a reality.