Tagged: 2025
Beyond the Doom: Darvaza – We Are Him (2025)
Released in December 2025 through Terratur Possessions, We Are Him is a visceral reminder of what happens when black metal is played with genuine, predatory intent. Omega handles every instrument with a level of focused aggression that bypasses the typical lo-fi murk, opting instead for a production style that is punchy and massive.
25 of ’25: Favorite Albums of 2025
As the frost of January 2026 begins to thin and we find ourselves on this final day of the month, it’s time to look back at the tectonic shifts of the year that was. 2025 didn’t just give us the (pretty expected) funerals; it surprised us with a series of massive, lively comebacks. We saw legendary names rise from the crypt and long-silent projects return with a ferocity that proved the “old world” is the only world – a timeless, decaying landscape where the shadows never truly fade!
De Mortem et Diabolum 2025: Personal Highlights
Another December in Berlin, another weekend spent hiding from the sleet inside the massive concrete shell of the ORWOhaus for De Mortem et Diabolum.
Review: The Howling Void – The Glow Of A Distant Fire (2025)
The April 2025 release of The Glow Of A Distant Fire, the ninth full-length album by The Howling Void, the monolithic, San Antonio, Texas-based one-person project of Ryan Wilson, is less an evolution than a culmination of his symphonic funeral doom style, immediately asserting itself as a standard for the genre. While deeply rooted in the genre’s defining characteristics of glacial pacing and oppressive atmosphere, the album distinguishes itself by leveraging immense soundscapes, aimed for intense philosophical introspection.
Playlist Update: We As a Company; YOJIMBO; Harvest of Ash
Playlist Update: We As a Company; YOJIMBO; Harvest of Ash
Review: Pilgrimage – From Amber to Sun (2025)
Attention! Pilgrimage have unleashed their second album, From Amber to Sun, an overwhelming masterclass in Death-Doom Metal saturation. This cross-border alliance, anchored by musicians from Malta and The Netherlands, constructs sloe, monolithic structures of sound. Titanic low-end frequencies and ice-age tempos establish an immense, terrifying scale.
Playlist Update 7.11.2025: Evoken; Toilet Snake; Coltsblood
Playlist Update 7.11.2025: Evoken; Toilet Snake; Coltsblood
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 helping to define the sound of funeral doom – a genre characterized by its glacial pace, overwhelming psychological gravity, and mournful atmosphere.