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Gregory Ritchey revisits decades-old poems on The Blood of Ghosts, an album by his funeral doom project Silent Deep Ocean. Drawing on an email interview, this feature traces how the freedom to revise old...
Silent Deep Ocean, Essence of Existence II: The Blood of Ghosts. Cover painting by William Trost Richards. Image: Silent Deep Ocean / Bandcamp.
Doom, Sludge, Death, Black, Gothic, and everything in between and beyond the stars
Reviews, interviews, and long-form writing on heavy music, film, literature, art, and the histories that connect them.
Black Sabbath ran from the Devil. Cronos wanted to be him. On the Venom frontman, who died on October 1 at 63, and the genre his band named but could...
At Tmuna Theatre, Methuselian turned stoner doom, throat singing, guest instruments, crowd surfing, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain into the same...
On Circadian Promise, Fires in the Distance change both the human and sampled voices at the center of their melodic death-doom. Brendan...
Three questions with an artist about one new song, where it came from, and what it opens onto.
Cologne musician Phillip Tielsch introduces AKRON ANK through "Lakxim9," the first single from his forthcoming album karg. He discusses the track's invented name, its place on the...
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Selected releases, heard together and given the space they deserve.
State of Doom #21 gathers the July 2026 round of new and recent doom metal in Doomnation Radio's ongoing Spotify series, collecting current releases and discoveries in one playlist for listeners who want to follow what has entered our rotation.
Film essays that follow a scene or image into the history, literature, politics, and visual traditions around it.
Dispatches from Doomnation Radio.
A dispatch from Doomnation Radio with new writing, radio additions, and selected videos.
Subscribe to THE DRONETen 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....
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