The freshly persistent communal psychosis beyond waves of cheap hash and too-sacred LSD that’d been trickling from north-to-south […]
traditional doom metal
“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 […]
DOOM METAL and SLUDGE METAL exist on indefinite terms as generational relatives among the most ancient forms of […]
The heat of the very Earth and atmosphere that sustains me now threatens to dry and irradiate away […]
(Exterior: A bog, just in sight of the looming towers of Crondor Manor, somewhere deep in the thick […]
Depending upon her presentation the draw of a queen of swords can represent an flawless, Athena-esque goddess who’d […]
Frustration with the necessary community of man and the existential dread resultant of misrepresentation is a state of […]
As civilization dips in and out of periods of unrest, revolution, and distrust with greater frequency the passage […]
METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]