Tag: doom

  • Yellowtooth – Crushed by the Wheels of Progress

    Yellowtooth – Crushed by the Wheels of Progress

    Yellowtooth, an Indiana sludge/doom trio, had their 2012 debut with Disgust. It was a decent platter of lo-fi filth, with down-tuned riffage and rough hewn production that brought Winter’s Into Darkness to mind.  With that said, I’m intent to see how they’ve progressed in the three years since. I was somewhat surprised to hear a…

  • Opium Lord – The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth

    Opium Lord – The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth

    Can’t say I’m too familiar with Opium Lord, a UK sludge outfit, but they’re coming to Toronto with Primitive Man on July 17, which is reason enough for me to check out their debut album here. The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth opens right off the bat with the type of down-tuned riffage that instantly…

  • King Giant – Black Ocean Waves

    King Giant – Black Ocean Waves

    King Giant’s previous album, Dismal Hollow, was more of a grower than a shower for me, but by the time I saw ’em live in Milwaukee last summer, I was fully a fan. Though they hail from the D.C. area, you couldn’t call ’em a band of Pentagram worshippers. File under doom, perhaps, but if…

  • Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha / Juggernaut: Omega

    Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha / Juggernaut: Omega

    Those Periphery boys are at it again. The Maryland sextet brings their unique progressive style back with a new double album, Juggernaut:Alpha and Juggernaut:Omega. Although the two are meant to be companion pieces to one another, the styles and sounds differ drastically between these two entries. Juggernaut: Alpha offers up a far more accessible album…

  • Kings Destroy – self-titled

    Kings Destroy – self-titled

    I’ve been a big Kings Destroy fan ever since I saw ’em at Days of the Doomed III in Milwaukee a couple years back. Their second album, A Time of Hunting, cracked my year-end Top 10 in 2013, and I have high hopes for their follow-up effort. The band brings the melodic doom, similar to…

  • The Ditch and the Delta – We Rust EP

    The Ditch and the Delta – We Rust EP

    Over the past couple year’s one band in particular has been making a buzz in Salt Lake City and that band is Subrosa. The Ditch and the Delta is another such band from the same city that is up to the challenge of following in their footsteps. The band consists of Elliot Secrist (Guitar / Vocals),…

  • Goatsnake – Black Age Blues

    Goatsnake – Black Age Blues

    While the Facebook group “1 MILLION GOATSNAKE FANS PLEADING FOR A NEW ALBUM/TOUR” never got much more than a thousand members… they did get their wish with this, the first Goatsnake full-length in 15 years. Some might know them mainly as the band with that guy from Sunn O)))) and Southern Lord, but back at…

  • Ghold – Of Ruin

    Ghold – Of Ruin

    So, I might be a little late on this self-proclaimed “Weight & Grunt” doom duo—which is just a nice way of saying they don’t have a guitarist. But hey, when it comes to this style of music, you’re better off with bass and no guitar than the other way around. From what I can ascertain,…

  • Valkyrie – Shadows

    Valkyrie – Shadows

    Been a while since we’ve heard from these Virginia doomsters—split 7” with Earthling aside, they haven’t released a record since 2008.  And yet, their profile has grown somewhat in their absence, what with guitarist Pete Adams joining Baroness.  Suffice to say, the Baroness connection secured their record deal with Relapse, providing the resources—recorded by Sanford…

  • Monolord – Vaenir

    Monolord – Vaenir

    If like me you didn’t think things could get any heavier than Monolord‘s debut, Empress Rising, you’d be wrong. Following up on last year’s titanic slab of earth-shattering doom, sophomore effort Vænir takes it to another level. The sound is even fuller with a dirty, reverbed distortion gnarling through overstressed amps. Yet contrary to how…