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Indianapolis death-doom band Mother of Graves introduce The Light That Keeps Us with “Through the Pale Shade,” a song they chose to represent their balance of heaviness and dreamlike melody....
At Tmuna Theatre, Methuselian turned stoner doom, throat singing, guest instruments, crowd surfing, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain into the same physical event. The set was ritualistic onstage and...
Houston duo Arsis Thesis use the title track of Ustanak as a four-part statement of the album’s larger arc, from rebellion to its consequences. Brothers Nick and Jake Blevins discuss...
Buzzard pairs banjo, lap steel, fuzz, and rural satire across “Hillbilly Fuckery” and “Appalachian Blood Bourbon.” Christopher Thomas Elliott explains why the songs belong together, how they extend his three-part...
Two Japanese films made two years apart turn damaged faces into problems of identity. Kaneto Shindō explicitly linked Onibaba's mask to atomic-bomb disfigurement; Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another places...
On Circadian Promise, Fires in the Distance change both the human and sampled voices at the center of their melodic death-doom. Brendan Hayter brings clean singing into the band, while...
Godthrymm close their Visions Trilogy by widening the lineup and redistributing the lead voice. On Projections, Catherine Glencross and three guest singers pull the Halifax band's epic doom into faster...
Robert Wiene’s The Hands of Orlac (1924) turns a pianist’s hand transplant into a crisis of agency. Read beside postwar reconstructive surgery, Freud’s Vienna, and Paul Wittgenstein’s one-handed career, the...
Paradise Lost's Gothic turned 35 in 2026. The anniversary edition clarifies its documented origins in death-doom, Sisters of Mercy, Celtic Frost, Ken Russell, and Gothic literature and architecture. West Yorkshire...
Requiem in White named themselves after the Catholic Mass for the Dead, played the New York underground in a former Episcopal church on 20th Street, and circulated their recordings on...
Finnish atmospheric metal band Meret introduce their self-titled EP with “Breath of the Dying Sun,” a debut single built around clean and harsh vocals, melancholy, and collapse. Toni Hinkkala explains...
The Ruins of Beverast is Alexander von Meilenwald's solo project, formed in Aachen, Germany in 2003. Seven full-lengths in, he named the latest after enkoimesis, the ancient Greek practice of...