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DOOM CINEMA: PI (1998)
The greatest lesson we take from Pi today is the terrifying clarity of its warning. We learn that the relentless pursuit of absolute pattern and predictability can destroy the self....
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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...
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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...
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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...
Doom Cinema
Doom Cinema: Sátántangó (1994)
When the Nobel Committee named László Krasznahorkai this year as the winner in the literature category, they spoke of his apocalyptic rhythm and circling prose. That description fits another figure...
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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...
Saturnus, Under the Doom 2025
Live Report
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...
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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...
Live Report
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...