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Ten pieces to begin with, chosen from across the magazine for readers finding Doomnation for the first time.
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 GlassWhat 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 CinemaReaching 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,...
InterviewReview: 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...
ReviewTaking 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...
Through the GlassHot 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 ReportReview: 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...
ReviewReview: 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...
ReviewAmbiences 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,...
InterviewNo 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...
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