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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...
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Review: Hooded Menace – Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration (2025)
On their seventh album, Finland's Hooded Menace take a more melodic turn. The shift feels unexpected yet earned, the kind that comes after years of refining one approach until it...
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Review: Novembers Doom – Major Arcana (2025)
Across three decades, Novembers Doom have refined decay into discipline. Recording since 1995, the American band’s sound has aged alongside its voice, turning experience into structure. Major Arcana extends that...
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Review: Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern (2025)
Der Weg einer Freiheit turn inward on their sixth album, using blast-beat violence, piano, silence, and recurring images of suffering and renewal. Innern means “inward,” not “to remember,” and the...
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Review: Paradise Lost – Ascension (2025)
Paradise Lost’s seventeenth album arrives as their most commanding release since Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us. It does not attempt reinvention, but it draws together every strand of the...
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Review: Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery (2025)
Cascading Misery begins in density. The guitars arrive thick and murky, closer to the drag of earth shifting under pressure than to anything sharpened or metallic. The vocals enter as...
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The Sound of Gray: Revisiting Warning – Watching from a Distance (2006)
Twenty years after Watching from a Distance, Warning have finally made another album. Patrick Walker's own account complicates the mythology around the 2006 record: it was written under deadline, built...
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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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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:...
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Review: Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace (2025)
North Dakota's Ghost Bath has always walked the line between raw black metal and mournful doom, shaping music that feels cold yet deeply human.
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A Beauty in Despair: 30 Years of Draconian Times
There are albums that stay with you long after the music fades. Albums that do not simply fill a room but settle into the corners of your life. Draconian Times...
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333: Three New Releases That Deserve Your Full Attention | Dawn of Solace; Melvins 1983; Cwfen
Join us as we dig through the murk to bring you three recent releases that are worth the weight. This time, it’s a trio that hits across the doom spectrum,...