(Exterior: A bog, just in sight of the looming towers of Crondor Manor, somewhere deep in the thick […]
traditional doom metal
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 […]
As before, as always, I approach any split release already loving one band and with little feeling for […]
How do you sleep at night, anymore? Do you feel guilty for the polluted air you breathe, the […]
Though he would maintain a front-facing presence in Swiss death metallers Requiem for nearly a decade, bassist and sometimes […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Like so many other metal sub-genres the defining traits of doom metal have dissolved into meaningless dispute though […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of November in the […]
Arisen in service to the psychic swamp of seventies appreciation in the relative freedom of the mid-nineties came […]
Sudden and unexpected death, or rather the trauma of loss, has a way of freezing time and shaking […]
A certain majority of the artists that previously formed the wave that would resurrect the lanky corpse of […]
The history of this unassuming horror inspired doom metal album would only seem tragic if you’d never spent […]
The first ten years of releases from Lee Dorrian‘s still-ripping Rise Above Records might have began with intermittent […]
As Portland’s hand-crafted, artisinal stoner doom scene blossoms like a thousand fluttering 18th century bosoms at a naval […]
Though Robespierre tapes would make their way onto the internet as old friends documented their rarities digitally, their […]
The legendary traditions of Italian doom metal are deeply ingrained into my brain thanks to innovative masters like […]
As a kid my brother’s uninformed and admittedly random purchases from metal and punk mail-order distros often ended […]
