2022
Westin’s Top Albums of 2022
Hey, I’m Westin and this is my Albums of the Year list. If you don’t know me I am extremely annoying on Twitter. And when I’m not busy doing that, I’m listening to music and […]
Doom metal
2022
Roundup: November Notables
Written by Kep, Melinda, Westin, and Greg Schwan We’re getting there, folks: this extremely silly year is almost over. I have a feeling that this will be the last monthly roundup of 2022, as December […]
2022
Album Review: Thy Listless Heart – “Pilgrims on the Path of No Return” (Atmospheric Doom)
Written by Greg Schwan Thy Listless Heart – Pilgrims on the Path of No Return> Atmospheric doom metal> England, UK> Released November 22> Hammerheart Records In Pilgrims on the Path of No Return’s massive 14-minute […]
2022
Album Review: Forlesen – “Black Terrain” (Doom/Drone Metal)
Written by Westin Forlesen – Black Terrain> Doom/drone metal> Oregon, US> Releasing October 28> I, Voidhanger Records I am sitting behind my house on my back porch. A soft autumn breeze dances through the bushes […]
2022
Album Review: Jakob Battick & Tongue Depressor – “Raise the Dead” (Experimental Drone)
Written by Greg Schwan Jakob Battick & Tongue Depressor – Raise the Dead> Experimental drone> PA/CT, US> Releasing October 26> Stoned to Death In music, we too infrequently ask the question of where. Where does […]
2022
Album Review: Mar – “Everything Is Alive” (Queer Anarchist Doom)
Written by Barlovv Mar – Everything is Alive >Doom metal>Rhode Island, US>Released October 14th, 2022>Independent/self-release Queer Anarchist Doom Metal is, hopefully, what will be playing at my funeral. Sometimes a collection of words creates that […]
2022
Album Review: VoidOath – “Ascension Beyond Kokytus” (Doomsludge)
Written by Barlovv VoidOath – Ascension Beyond Kokytus> Abysmal horror doom> Costa Rica> Releases September 30th> Cognitive Discordance/Cursed Monk “Aeons in fall, deserted vessel Frenzy thoughts, slaver spewed Mutated body, through stars descent Plunging into […]
2022
Album Review: Endonomos – “Endonomos” (Death/doom)
Endonomos – Endonomos> Death/doom> Austria> Releasing August 26> Argonauta Records There are few phrases you could stick in a promo package that would grab my attention as immediately as “for fans of Ahab”. That’s why I dropped my […]
2022
Album Review: Assumption – “Hadean Tides”
Written by Kep Assumption – Hadean TidesDeath/doom from ItalyReleasing May 20 via Everlasting Spew Records Here’s a question I’ve addressed on Twitter before: what exactly is death/doom? It’s more than just slow death metal, after all. Obviously […]
2020 Albums
Album Review: Draconian – “Under a Godless Veil” 9.5/10 (Doom Metal)
This year has been a flourishing year for doom metal as several of the Doom giants have released their masterpieces, among whom we can name My Dying Bride’s The Ghost of Orion, Paradise Lost’s Obsidian and Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days. But above all, I had been looking forward to listening to Draconian. They have always been an inimitable band to me and their signature gothic doom death metal sound has enthralled me ever since I discovered them more than a decade ago with their album Turning Season Within (2008), where I listened to “When I Wake” until my ears, as well as my heart, started to bleed. Album after album, they have stamped themselves upon the massive corpus of Doom Metal. […]