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After the Sabbath: Introduction
What was it about Black Sabbath that made them one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century? What caused a strange blues-rock band from the late ’60s...
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After the Sabbath: Experiment and Fracture (1973–75) | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage
This time I’ll start with a question. I genuinely don’t understand why so many Sabbath fans seem to believe that the Ozzy era ended after their fourth album. That view...
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After the Sabbath: The Disintegration (1976–78) | Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die!
Technical Ecstasy came out in 1976, during a time when tensions between Ozzy and the rest of the band were reaching a breaking point. It ended with his not-so-final departure...
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After the Sabbath: The Door Opens (1970) | Self-titled and Paranoid
A twist of fate and a newspaper ad brought together four young men from a nowhere suburb near Birmingham in the late ’60s. Four unemployed outsiders, broke and strung out,...
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After the Sabbath: Into the Void (1971–72) | Master of Reality and Vol. 4
It’s 1971, and Black Sabbath already had two very successful albums behind them, especially considering how little support they got from the press and the industry. Paranoid gave Ozzy the...
Review
333: Three New Releases That Deserve Your Full Attention | Postmortal; An Tóramh; Nortt
As spring decays, three albums rise to pull us back into the soil. Grief and the slow collapse of light - this is death-doom reduced to its essence.
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Revisiting Ahab – The Boats of the Glen Carrig (2015)
Ahab did not simply place William Hope Hodgson's 1907 sea-horror novel over prewritten funeral doom. The band discarded material that no longer fit, rebuilt the album together in rehearsal, and...
Review
Into the Cosmic Void: Void Sinker’s Solaris (2025)
Instead of describing Solaris in typical terms, we imagined it as a recovered journal from an astronaut adrift in deep space. This fictional narrative reflects the atmosphere of the music:...
Elegy Fragments
Elegy Fragments #1
This is where Doomnation Radio meets the world of poetry! In Elegy Fragments, we share carefully chosen lines from the great elegiac poets. These are not full texts, but excerpts...
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Let it Fall: A Post-Midsummer Special
With each shortening day, we draw closer to the hush of winter. The earth slows its breath, the noise of growth softens, and in that stillness, something else begins -...
Doom Cinema
Doom Cinema: The Black Cat (1934)
Released in 1934, during the brief and lawless Hollywood's pre-Code era, when filmmakers were free to explore darker themes that would soon be censored by the Production Code, Edgar G....