Staring upwards, kneeling without reverence, and finally collapsed at eye-level with the floor — What lands heaviest upon […]
traditional doom metal
A careful first step away from a well-defined yet entirely tumultuous ‘self’ may not be all that it […]
“For the terror had not faded with the silhouette, and in a fearsome instant of deeper darkness the […]
“’Twas grief enough to think mankind / All hollow, servile, insincere; / But worse to trust to my […]
The blunt roar and heat-excited ringing of an overworked and under-maintained amplifier fizzling under the pressure of fuzz […]
“Wild spires of stone shoot up into the air, barren and clearly defined, in the form (as its […]
“Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten, / Daß ich so traurig bin; / Ein Märchen ans alten […]
The freshly persistent communal psychosis beyond waves of cheap hash and too-sacred LSD that’d been trickling from north-to-south […]
“Cringe in the flames, smashed to the wall” — In the late 80’s/early 90’s Fenriz would reach a […]
Armor pried away from failed chainmail, the arrow’d invasion of the flesh now searing as its shaft slicks […]
Unwrapped to reveal its curved onyx hilt and wringing ungracefully spattering blood from filthy, crusted years-old muslin, so […]
Poisoned breaths choking hydra’s blood atop defeat’s splatter and furious hiss, the din of serpentine collapse cures neither […]
When you’ve achieved state and station as cosmically high as Hobart, Tasmania based arcane musician Ol’ Rusty had […]
Pestilence sprays across the land from lung to lung, ignorant congregations gather and die in hordes, the populace […]
When gauging a fellow metalheads worthiness in terms of pure doom metal I’ve only ever needed to ask […]
Set high amongst the most vital new voices within the Roman traditional doom metal ecosystem in recent years, […]
I’ve compiled this list not as a “best of” for the wide blanket of doom metal in 2019 […]
Growth is a wickedly subjective trip to set upon the forehead of the creative type as the concept […]
Winter comes as it pleases and the north sits a void of light entrenched beneath portals to blizzards […]
This estranged royal son of Cadmus arrives home disguised as a traveler and a hidden blade set upon […]
