01. Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion (SAMPLE) Spirituality and Distortion is a truly strange album, and it plays into that as its strength just perfectly. It’s one of those avant-garde metal albums that throws in a ton of different sounds, either one after another or at the same time. You’ll…
Doom Metal
Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare
Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Full disclosure – the last time I paid any attention to Primordial was around SPIRIT THE EARTH AFLAME, and I had zero inclinations that Nemtheanga had been spending the last few years…
Soulburn – Noa’s D’ark
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Dutch metallers Soulburn return this year with album number four, NOA’S D’ARK, following up 2016’s Earthless Pagan Spirit. It was released through Century Media Records on 13/11, which fell on Friday the 13th, a date with unlucky…
Hypervolume – Conceive
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Chicago-based duo Hypervolume are just about to release their debut full-length, Conceive, and it’s an absolutely solid slab of stoner doom swagger. For their first offering, Hypervolume present us with an album dominated by confident, rumbling bluster and thick,…
Interview with Ecclesia
Interview with Ecclesia Frater Arnhwald – Vocals Julius Accusator – Lead guitar The Witchfinder General – Rhythm guitar Frater Ignis Sacer – Bass Pater Hexenhammer – Drums Pater Walkelinus – Organ Interview by Kieron Hayes Facebook | Bandcamp Ecclesia’s debut album, De Ecclesiæ Universalis, made a great impression here at…
Ecclesia – De Ecclesiæ Universalis
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Aural Music Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes French sextet Ecclesia are here with their debut full-length, De Ecclesiæ Universalis, a fervently fun slab full of heretics, witches and the ever-unexpected Inquisition hunting them down. The band is most often described as doom metal, and while…
Quick Jabs for November 2020
This is a new monthly section where we will post an assortment of shorter reviews for albums that we have checked out or may have missed out on previously. The reviews are short and to the point, thus the tile “Quick Jabs”. Kromheim – Kromheim June 23rd, 2020 – Self-Release…
DARK QUARTERER – Pompei
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire Prog-tinged epic metal from one of Italy’s most venerable acts! A concept album detailing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, DARK QUARTERER has crafted an album of high drama and impeccable musicianship with “Pompei”!…
Amederia – Sometimes We Have Wings
November 2020 November 27th, 2020 / BadMoodMan Music Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine If you are a connoisseur of the gloomy side of gothic doom-laden metal, you will be in for a surprise here. Amederia is just that. Hailing from Russia, Amederia has been in existence since 2006.…
Ottone Pesante – DoomooD
Ottone Pesante – DoomooD Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Bandcamp Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz You want to talk heavy metal? How about literal heavy metal? How about metal’s first non-ironic Brass Doom Metal band?? Playing instruments that are both heavy and metal while being heavy metal at the same…
Old Mother Hell – Lord of Demise
Reviewed: October, 2020 Released: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich I missed Old Mother Hell’s 2018 debut self-titled album, but I am just in time for their follow-up album LORD OF DEMISE. The new album will be released on October 23rd on Cruz Del Sur Music. The…
Aphonic Threnody – The Great Hatred
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine International death-doom outfit Aphonic Threnody (formed in 2012) are set to release their third full-length, The Great Hatred on October 16th. An excerpt from their press release statement reads: “Members of Towards Atlantis Lights, Dea Marica, Arrant Saudade and more collaborate to…
Self Hypnosis – Contagion Of Despair
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020 – Svart Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog For those wanting to know more a bit more about the roots of Self Hypnosis, your starting point will undoubtedly be Kris Clayton’s Camel Of Doom outfit. As Clayton’s songwriting became more experimental, he made the decision to…
Bull Elephant – Created From Death
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Eat Lead and Die Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire UK anonymous collective BULL ELEPHANT will release its second album, Created From Death, in August on Eat Lead and Die Music. The album, part two in the BULL ELEPHANT trilogy mythos, picks up where the debut ended. The eponymous creature,…
Jupiterian – Protosapien
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Sometimes you really need to be in the right mood for certain music. Jupiterian’s Protosapien is one such example, and the mood it wants you to be in, the atmosphere it revels in and drips with, is…