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Taking the Devil’s Part: Venom, Cronos, and the Language of Black Metal
Black Sabbath ran from the Devil. Cronos wanted to be him. On the Venom frontman, who died on October 1 at 63, and the genre his band named but could...
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(((SIGNALS))) Mother of Graves – “Through the Pale Shade”
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....
Live Report
Hot and Hotter: Methuselian at Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv, July 31, 2026
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...
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(((SIGNALS))) Arsis Thesis – Ustanak
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...
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(((SIGNALS))) Buzzard – “Hillbilly Fuckery” b/w “Appalachian Blood Bourbon”
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...
Doom Cinema
Faces of War: Onibaba (1964) and The Face of Another (1966)
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...
Review
Review: Fires in the Distance – Circadian Promise (2026)
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...
Review
Review: Godthrymm – Projections (2026)
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...
Doom Cinema
What the Flesh Remembers: The Hands of Orlac (1924)
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...
Through the Glass
The Yorkshire Gothic: Paradise Lost’s Gothic at Thirty-Five
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...
Interview
Reaching Into the Void: An Interview with Requiem in White
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...
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(((SIGNALS))) Meret – “Breath of the Dying Sun”
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...