I’m starting off my introductory paragraph a little differently today. If you’ve read my articles before, I usually start off by talking a ...
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What’s the deal with the dramatic side of doom/death metal and pretentious album titles? I’ve stumbled upon Desire’s Infinity… A Timeless Journey Through an ...
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Comments Off on Review: As Divine Grace “Romantic Beatitude of Faded Dawn” [Folter Records]
Since In Grief’s An Eternity of Misery has recently come out, I decided to revisit the EP that I had heard years ago, but back ...
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Unlike several other countries, Norway’s contribution to the development of doom/death metal has been limited, but that did not mean that the country’s ...
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It’s easy to assume that doom/death metal bands lost it once they had settled for a lighter sound, regardless of the actual outcome. ...
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Let’s talk about your new album. The main themes seem to be death, but also environmental damage and religious cults. Yes. I guess ...
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Nowadays the fear of your favorite doom/death metal band turning into a gothic rock act is clearly irrational, as plenty of doom/death metal ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hooded Menace “The Tritonus Bell” [Season of Mist]
By the late 90’s, the better known doom/death metal bands had abandoned the paths of doom and while this must have been a ...
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Comments Off on Review: Crystal Darkness “Ascend Saturnine Nebulae” [Red Snow]
Novembers Doom are one of the stranger bands that we’ve tend to associate with the doom/death metal genre. They began as a faithful ...
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Comments Off on Review: Novembers Doom “Amid Its Hallowed Mirth” [Avantgarde Music]
It always fascinates me how quickly the musical ideas and visions of certain artists change over time. Who’d be a better example than ...
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Comments Off on Review: Celtic Frost “To Mega Therion” [Noise Records]
Cemetary are one of those weird bands to me; not because of their stylistic changes (since those weren’t uncommon in the 90s to ...
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First of all I need to say that in this review I can hardly remain impartial due to some valid reasons. In my ...
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Comments Off on Review: 1914 “Where Fear And Weapons Meet” [Napalm Records]
It’s remarkable how there were so many doom/death metal bands coming out of Holland back in the day, with bands like Sempiternal Deathreign, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Celestial Season “Solar Lovers” [Displeased Records]
Golgotha caught me by surprise, as I’ve never heard anyone mention this band before and they also originate from Spain. Granted, I know ...
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Although Hooded Menace managed to keep the doom/death metal spirit alive while evolving at the same time, this band hasn’t always interested me ...
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In 2010 the former drummer of Type O Negative and Life Of Agony, Sal Abruscato founded his own band, A Pale Horse Named ...
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Here you can read an interview I had with Artyom Serdyuk, who is active with several bands: Woe Unto Me, Disloyal and Deathbringer. ...
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Polish extreme metallers Catharsis are back with a new release after 8 years. Human Filures will be released on June 25th via Mad ...
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After eight years of silence the Grecian dark metal legends Nightfall have returned with a brand new full-length work “At Night We Prey”, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nightfall “At Night We Prey” [Season of Mist]
At the end of last year Austrian gothic/heavy metal one-man project of Marko Köfler Adder’s Fork independently has released their latest EP “The ...
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