Doom Metal
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Occult Master Confront Leprosy’s Exile on ‘Occult Master’
The Oulu trio’s debut turns a leprosy narrative into progressive doom, already reaching international metal press ahead of release.
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Death. Void. Terror. Reemerge in ‘To the Great Monolith 2.5’
The anonymous Swiss project’s first release since 2020 lands on cassette only, its ritual concept rooted in trance practices older…
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Beyond the Gates Returns to Bergen for Its 14th Chapter
USF Verftet, Grieghallen, and Kulturhuset carry four days of black, death, and doom metal as Bergen’s scene meets international extremity.
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Viande Carve France’s War Dead Into ‘Monument aux Morts’
Chambéry quartet’s second album turns France’s post-war memorial tradition into blackened death metal that reaches listeners far beyond Savoie.
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Bruul Break Yorkshire’s Silence With Their Debut ‘Bruul’
Bruul’s self-titled debut EP reaches Bandcamp on July 31st, carrying Yorkshire’s atmospheric black metal into a wider underground audience.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Reading the Bandaged Figure on Anathema’s ‘Serenades’
Penprase’s sepia tableau turns a horse skull and wrapped body into a study of concealment that fronts a debut caught…
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Mothertomb Wring Life From Decay on ‘Dying to Live’
A Welsh voice and a Michigan ice storm shape doom quartet Mothertomb’s debut ‘Dying to Live,’ a record for a…
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Shadow of Jupiter Drop ‘Bones’ Into the Doom Underground
Seven tracks of Midwestern proto-doom arrive July 10th on Ripple Music — a second album built on riff, weight, and…
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Soothsayer Wade Into Withdrawal on ‘The Unbinding’
The Cork doom band’s second album arrives July 3rd on Apocalyptic Witchcraft, turning private grief and chosen retreat into music…
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Witchsorrow Keep the Faith on ‘The Devil And All His Works’
British doom trio Witchsorrow return after eight years with a record of total devotion, carrying Hampshire’s occult inheritance to a…
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Paradise Lost Remaster the Album That Named ‘Gothic’ Doom
Thirty-five years after ‘Gothic’ gave gothic doom its name, Peaceville returns the record remastered — by an engineer born in…
