De Mortem et Diabolum 2025: Personal Highlights
Another December in Berlin, another weekend spent hiding from the sleet inside the massive concrete shell of the ORWOhaus for De Mortem et Diabolum.
Category: Beyond the Doom
Exploring heavy genres and dark culture. The darkness remains; the style expands. Our space for all sounds that stand just beyond the slow riff
Beyond the Doom: Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (2025)
This newest album, The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, is the synthesis of those extremes, a commandingly ambitious work that finds M. channeling the dark theatricality of the past while pushing the speed and grandeur established on the previous record.
Review: Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern (2025)
Der Weg einer Freiheit return with their sixth full-length, released through Season of Mist. Across six albums, the Würzburg group have refined their own language within black metal. With Noktvrn (2021), they leaned toward nocturnal atmosphere and extended use of piano, pulling their writing closer to dream states. Innern moves in another direction, stripped down to fury and fragility, pushing deeper into the body.
Ghosts of Dinmin: A Black Metal Interlude in Demmin
From my own little doom metal universe, the two nights in Demmin felt less like stepping outside than walking a parallel path. Doom often reaches beyond place, carrying its gravity inward, into memory and mind. Black metal here tore the night open in frenzy, tied to the earth, to ruins and red brick, to the woods themselves. Different shades, but both speaking with ghosts, both turning music into ritual.
