Serpents of Secrecy – Ave Vindicta
While Ave Vindicta is the band’s first album, Serpents of Secrecy are no strangers to the Maryland doom scene, featuring members of Sixty Watt…
Caskets Open – Concrete Realms of Pain
As one of Finland’s most legendary bands once sang, we really do have Doom Over the World nowadays. What started off with outfits like…
Forming the Void – Reverie
In some ways, Forming the Void got lucky. Their tour with Church of Misery ended in early March, about a week before the world…
Tyrant – Hereafter
Now, there are a lot of Tyrants in the metal world – this outfit isn’t even the only Tyrant from California. But, other than…
Volcanova – Radical Waves
I guess it’s maybe not so unusual to come across a stoner rock band from Iceland – after all, nearby Sweden has done just…
16 – Dream Squasher
It’s almost hard to believe that sludge metal is roughly 30 years old now, but as SoCal outfit 16, which put out its first…
Pale Divine – Consequence of Time
In some ways, Beelzefuzz’s loss was Pale Divine’s gain. The two outfits already shared three (out of four) members before the latter played its…
Ritual King – self-titled
If you’re looking for England’s answer to Elder, look no further. Manchester trio Ritual King offer a similar mixture of stoner, psych and prog…
Brant Bjork – self-titled
Man, Brant Bjork has been really prolific lately – between reissues and new issues, this is the fourth record of his I’ve reviewed since…
Smoulder – Dream Quest Ends
Smoulder’s debut album, Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring, was one of the breakout doom-metal releases of 2019. Critically acclaimed across the internet,…