Category: Reviews

Review: Sisyphean – Divergence

Sisyphean’s third album funnels Camus, a medieval emperor’s epithet, and the psychology of manipulation into 42 minutes of dissonant black/death metal from Vilnius. Produced at Poland’s Hertz Studio, Divergence is the sharpest and most daring record yet from a band built around one guitarist’s twelve-year refusal to stop.

Review: Non Est Deus – Blessings and Curses

Noise, the anonymous German musician behind Kanonenfieber and Leiþa, returns with the fifth Non Est Deus full-length. Blessings and Curses is his most chaotic record yet: melodic black metal built for festival crowds that never loses the claustrophobia of a one-man operation, and an indictment of religious coercion that lets the scripture do the talking.

Review: The Ruins of Beverast – Tempelschlaf (2026)

Twenty-three years into one of extreme metal’s most uncompromising discographies, The Ruins of Beverast deliver Tempelschlaf: seven tracks of blackened doom that move closer to the live stage than anything von Meilenwald has attempted before, while remaining as resistant to easy interpretation as the oracular dreams the album takes its name from.

Beyond the Doom: Darvaza – We Are Him (2025)

Released in December 2025 through Terratur Possessions, We Are Him is a visceral reminder of what happens when black metal is played with genuine, predatory intent. Omega handles every instrument with a level of focused aggression that bypasses the typical lo-fi murk, opting instead for a production style that is punchy and massive.

Review: The Howling Void – The Glow Of A Distant Fire (2025)

The April 2025 release of The Glow Of A Distant Fire, the ninth full-length album by The Howling Void, the monolithic, San Antonio, Texas-based one-person project of Ryan Wilson, is less an evolution than a culmination of his symphonic funeral doom style, immediately asserting itself as a standard for the genre. While deeply rooted in the genre’s defining characteristics of glacial pacing and oppressive atmosphere, the album distinguishes itself by leveraging immense soundscapes, aimed for intense philosophical introspection.

Review: Pilgrimage – From Amber to Sun (2025)

Attention! Pilgrimage have unleashed their second album, From Amber to Sun, an overwhelming masterclass in Death-Doom Metal saturation. This cross-border alliance, anchored by musicians from Malta and The Netherlands, constructs sloe, monolithic structures of sound. Titanic low-end frequencies and ice-age tempos establish an immense, terrifying scale.

Review: Evoken – Mendacium (2025)

Evoken stands as one of the fundamental pillars of American extreme doom metal. Formed in 1992 (under the initial name Funereus), this New Jersey collective has spent over three decades helping to define the sound of funeral doom – a genre characterized by its glacial pace, overwhelming psychological gravity, and mournful atmosphere.

Review: Spaceship Landing: A Tribute to KYUSS (2025)

Released by the digital label Witching Cult, this twenty-track collection gathers a global lineup to honor the architects of desert rock. A map of fuzz and heat drawn anew, tracing the dry pulse of Palm Desert through bands scattered across the world: France, Italy, USA, Norway, Germany, Spain, Finland, Australia… what unites them is the enduring current that runs through Kyuss: that raw desert pulse carried forward in new hands, and reimagined under different suns.

Review: Death Has Spoken – Elegy (2025)

Formed in 2017 in Białystok, Poland, Death Has Spoken have grown into a reliable presence within the country’s doom/death scene. Poland keeps a firm grip on its doom offerings, and this band stands near its center – serious, unhurried, and fully grounded in craft. Now releasing their third full-length, Elegy, they sound mature, massive, direct, and always within reach.