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Paradise Lost's Gothic turned 35 in 2026. The anniversary edition clarifies its documented origins in death-doom, Sisters of Mercy, Celtic Frost, Ken Russell, and Gothic literature and architecture. West Yorkshire remains essential context, while...
Ten pieces to begin with, chosen from across the magazine for readers finding Doomnation for the first time.
Paradise Lost's Gothic turned 35 in 2026. The anniversary edition clarifies its documented origins in death-doom, Sisters of Mercy, Celtic Frost, Ken Russell,...
Through the GlassRobert Wiene’s The Hands of Orlac (1924) turns a pianist’s hand transplant into a crisis of agency. Read beside postwar reconstructive surgery, Freud’s...
Doom CinemaRequiem in White named themselves after the Catholic Mass for the Dead, played the New York underground in a former Episcopal church on...
InterviewBarcelona's Litúrgia turn Catalan legends, pilgrimage routes, Romanesque church imagery, and the Catalan language itself into the material of their debut album I....
ReviewReviews, interviews, and long-form writing on heavy music, film, literature, art, and the histories that connect them.
At Tmuna Theatre, Methuselian turned stoner doom, throat singing, guest instruments, crowd surfing, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain into the same physical event. The set was ritualistic onstage and...
On Circadian Promise, Fires in the Distance change both the human and sampled voices at the center of their melodic death-doom. Brendan...
Godthrymm close their Visions Trilogy by widening the lineup and redistributing the lead voice. On Projections, Catherine Glencross and three guest singers...
Three questions with an artist about one new song, where it came from, and what it opens onto.
All signalsDoom, Sludge, Death, Black, Gothic, and everything in between and beyond the stars
Film essays that follow a scene or image into the history, literature, politics, and visual traditions around it.
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A dispatch from Doomnation Radio with new writing, radio additions, and selected videos.
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