Tag: doom metal

  • Clouds Taste Satanic – To Sleep Beyond The Earth

    Clouds Taste Satanic – To Sleep Beyond The Earth

    Take the minimalistic, defiantly monotonous widescreen dynamics of Dopesmoker era Sleep out of its vast desert backdrop and into the claustrophobic urban confines of contemporary Brooklyn. No, this isn’t the setup to a cruel Invisible Oranges joke. Glacially-paced NYC instrumental doom quartet Clouds Taste Satanic (nothing like a Flaming Lips reference to bolster yr tr00…

  • Dö – Den EP

    Dö – Den EP

    You’d think that with a name like Dö, these guys would be completely unGoogleable, but in fact both the second and third search-engine results are related to this band.  I guess the umlaut must be what does it. Anyhoo, this Finnish doom trio has just put out its second EP, a half-hour slab of blackened,…

  • Crypt Sermon – Out of the Garden

    Crypt Sermon – Out of the Garden

    Everything about Crypt Sermon just screams power-metal (in a Dio-style falsetto) to me. The name, the font, the album cover of a knight riding up to a castle…and yet, I’m told they have more than a hint of the Candlemass, or even the Dio-era Sabbath, to them.  Hey, if this album’s anything like Atlantean Kodex,…

  • Zombitrol & Blacktooth Black/Doom showcase in Toronto, Nov 29, 2014

    Zombitrol & Blacktooth Black/Doom showcase in Toronto, Nov 29, 2014

    Zombitrol/Blacktooth Joint FREE BLACK/DOOM SHOWCASE starring Volür, Godstopper, Empyrean Plague, Sortilegia Saturday November 29th, 2014 Smiling Buddha, 961 College St., Toronto Great all-Canadian lineup put together by Andrew Epstein (Zombitrol Productions, The Governor’s Ball) and Blacktooth Entertainment on November 29th at the Smiling Buddha Bar as a free gig (on a Saturday night in Toronto, eh!). Volür volur.bandcamp.com Sortilegia www.last.fm/music/Sortilegia…

  • The Skull – For Those Which Are Asleep

    The Skull – For Those Which Are Asleep

    Here’s another band I recently saw this year in Milwaukee.  The Skull features three former members of Trouble, most notably frontman Eric Wagner.  The last time I saw him on stage, prior to this summer, he had short hair, wore sunglasses and a Beatles shirt, and spent the whole set staring at the floor.  But…

  • Satyress – Dark Fortunes

    Satyress – Dark Fortunes

    A female-fronted doom band from Portland… that’s not Witch Mountain? Do tell! The aforementioned set the bar pretty high pretty high with their comeback effort South of Salem, pushing the vocal stylings of Uta Plotkin to the forefront and putting Rip City on the map as a place whose doom scene had much more to…

  • Thou – Heathen

    Thou – Heathen

    By Matt Hinch  “Only amidst the sea of refuse shall we find enlightenment pure.” — from “Immorality Dictates” The ever-prolific Thou continue what has thus far been a stellar 2014 with Heathen. Their fourth full length and first since 2010’s Summit is simply stunning. The Louisiana doomsayers are sure to grab the rapt attention of…

  • Cathedral – The Last Spire

    Hellbound Metal: ” The Last Spire completes the Cathedral. From the foundation to the highest towers, the structure built by Dorrian will stand the test of time. Cheers to Dorrian and Cathedral for going out on a high note.”

  • There’s nothing like the sound of Neurosis in wintertime…

    Doom metal, in general, is not summertime music. When the sun’s out, the temperature’s rising and yer sweatin’ balls, you wanna cruise down the blacktop blasting some Kyuss or Fu Manchu, not some slow, melancholic, depressing tunes. Not that I have anything against slow and depressing, mind you–I just don’t have it pumping on the…

  • Blood Of The Black Owl – Light the Fires

    Blood Of The Black Owl – Light the Fires

    This isn’t the kind of album you’d listen to during a first date, but it’s great to do reading or studying to. I now feel ready to take a long nature hike on a chilly November day.