Louise Lemon – A Broken Heart is an Open Heart (LP/2CD set)
As intellectually evasive as music genre names have the capacity to be (dig into music history, and you’ll realize how silly sub-genre names get…
Reviews – Audio
Slomatics – Canyons
There’s something to be said for originality in doom. With most of the bands whose names contain either Witch or Wizard, you kind of…
Spirit Adrift – Divided by Darkness
Spirit Adrift’s previous album, Curse of Conception, was one of the best doom metal, if not overall metal albums of 2017. I know it…
Magic Circle – Departed Souls
Magic Circle’s first two albums are considered underground classics of true doom metal, so when they announced that Departed Souls, their first new record…
Nomad Son – The Darkening
Metal-on-Metal is a superb label. I haven’t encountered anything from them yet that wasn’t first class, and Nomad Son are no exception. Hailing from…
Tensei – Constellate LP
Over the last few years, The Flaming Lips have really come a long way from being the LSD-dipped and surrealist punk band that they…
Smoulder – Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring
Epic doom is alive and well in 2019! Not only do we have a new Candlemass, with Johan Langqvist—and a guest appearance from Iommi—but…
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Yn Ol I Annwn
This is the third album from the splendidly named Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard. No band sounds like M.W.W.B.; they are a secret the world…
Sacro Sanctus – Liber III: Codex Templarum
This is metal made for the very best of reasons by Mr. Albert Bell, a long-time mainstay of the Maltese metal scene: for the…
Mork – Det Svarte Juv
When such an arbiter of good taste as the mighty Fenriz endorses a band you can be sure they are something special, and indeed…