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: Live Reports
Doom and Drama in Lisbon: Thoughts from Under the Doom 2025
Lisbon in late September kept turning on itself. Sun in the morning, rain by afternoon, a clear sky at dusk, and showers again before night was done. For a first-time visitor, the shifts outside seemed bound to the performances which took place within Music Station, as if the city and the festival were moving to the same rhythm.
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.
