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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...

Through the Glass
02

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...

Doom Cinema
03

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,...

Interview
04

Review: Litúrgia – I (2026)

Barcelona's Litúrgia turn Catalan legends, pilgrimage routes, Romanesque church imagery, and the Catalan language itself into the material of their debut album I. Across six...

Review
05

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...

Live Report
06

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...

Review
07

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...

Review
08

Ambiences of Imprisonment: An Interview with The Ruins of Beverast

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,...

Interview
09

No Owner: An Interview with Xavier Godart of Birtawil

Named after Bir Tawil, Xavier Godart’s solo project has spent more than a decade treating isolation as a working method. On Dua Min, live performance...

Interview
10

Nothing Stays Buried: An Interview with Mirror of Deception

Mirror of Deception's sixth album Transience moves between the Demeter's ship log, a dolphin skull found in southern Chile, and Bronze Age violence in the...

Interview