Tagged: 2026

(((SIGNALS))) Arsis Thesis – Ustanak

Arsis Thesis are brothers Nick Blevins on guitar and vocals and Jake Blevins on drums and vocals, working out of Houston, Texas since 2015. Their debut EP Pangea pulled doom toward noise rock, math rock, sludge, post-hardcore and psych. Ustanak, six tracks with cover art by Adam Burke of Nightjar Illustration, arrives July 31, 2026, self-released. The title track and Capricorn are streaming now.

(((SIGNALS))) Buzzard – Hillbilly Fuckery b/w Appalachian Blood Bourbon

Christopher Thomas Elliott records Buzzard by himself in Massachusetts, running banjo and lap steel through fuzz and dropped-tuning riffs. The new single pairs Hillbilly Fuckery, built from an International WTF Tabernacle Choir of more than fifty voices sending in recordings of themselves, with Appalachian Blood Bourbon, a tale of backwoods vampires who climb from the hollers into billionaire bunkers. He answered our three questions from inside the world he calls Buzzard.

Review: Fires in the Distance – Circadian Promise (2026)

Doom is the music of the self alone in the dark. It sits with grief and holds it, slow and low. Twice before, a recorded voice entered one of their songs, a man who looked at his own death and called it a plain ending. Circadian Promise brings in a different voice, one that says the self is part of everything around it, that what you fear losing dissolves back into the whole it came from. A new singer arrives to carry it, and the band that kept to the ground begins to rise.

Review: Godthrymm – Projections

The third album from the Halifax doom band closes a trilogy built on the language of light, and hands its songs from one singer to the next. Strong, heavy and varied, with a handful of moments that lift above the rest.

Review: Litúrgia – I

Litúrgia’s debut album, I, delivers six tracks of Catalan epic doom from Barcelona, sung entirely in their native tongue and rooted in the mythology and landscape of Catalonia. The band perform in hooded pilgrim robes and call themselves the Pilgrim Order of Holy Fear. The model for what they are doing is older than doom metal: Romanesque art, made to teach legends and scripture to a congregation that could not read.

(((SIGNALS))) Kalmo – Feeding the Worms

Kalmo means cadaver in Finnish. The three-piece, Mika on vocals, Pekka on guitar, and Anu on bass, grew from what was originally Mika’s solo project, the expanded lineup appearing for the first time on the 2025 single Thy Chosen One. “Feeding the Worms” is the third in a running series of singles, following Thy Chosen One and Thy Saviour, Thy Master, both from 2025. Mika answered our questions.

(((SIGNALS))) Void Sinker – “Hanged”

A signal comes before the full transmission. (((SIGNALS))) is Doomnation Radio’s space for bands to tell us about their new single and what it points toward: why this song came first, where it lives on the album, and what world it carries inside it. Three questions only, the rest is up to them.