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Audition (1999). Cover artwork supplied by Arrow Video via MVD Entertainment Group.
Following the death of novelist Ryu Murakami, Doom Cinema returns to Takashi Miike's Audition (1999). A fraudulent casting call becomes a study of looking, male authority, and the ways a...
Peter Steele at Sauna Open Air, Finland, 2007. Photo: Merkababa, CC BY 3.0.
At thirty, Type O Negative’s October Rust brings its forest fantasies back to a family dining room. The Green Man, an imagined priestess, and a disappointed invocation of Bacchus reveal...
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 physical event. The set was ritualistic onstage and...
Two Japanese films made two years apart turn damaged faces into problems of identity. Kaneto Shindō explicitly linked Onibaba's mask to atomic-bomb disfigurement; Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another places...
On Circadian Promise, Fires in the Distance change both the human and sampled voices at the center of their melodic death-doom. Brendan Hayter brings clean singing into the band, while...
Godthrymm close their Visions Trilogy by widening the lineup and redistributing the lead voice. On Projections, Catherine Glencross and three guest singers pull the Halifax band's epic doom into faster...
Robert 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 Vienna, and Paul Wittgenstein’s one-handed career, the...
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...
Requiem in White named themselves after the Catholic Mass for the Dead, played the New York underground in a former Episcopal church on 20th Street, and circulated their recordings on...
The Ruins of Beverast is Alexander von Meilenwald's solo project, formed in Aachen, Germany in 2003. Seven full-lengths in, he named the latest after enkoimesis, the ancient Greek practice of...
Barcelona's Litúrgia turn Catalan legends, pilgrimage routes, Romanesque church imagery, and the Catalan language itself into the material of their debut album I. Across six long-form epic-doom songs, local history...