doom
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Plaguewielder Full EP by Plaguewielder Really digging the heavy riffs, primal drums, freakish vocals, and dismal guitar leads on this new Plaguewielder EP, which you can stream via the widget above. These guys clearly aren’t working with the best production in the world, but they seem to be doing
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VIXI by Relic Point Relic Point’s monstrous new LP VIXI is comprised of an hour of sludgy black metal, with elements of drone and doom thrown in for good measure. The Russian outfit proves itself to be adept at crafting downright monolithic pieces, the first two tracks nearing the
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Chicago metal outfit Lord Mantis is about to drop their third full-length on April 29th via Profound Lore, and this new track of theirs sets quite a tone. I first heard of this band a year or so ago when they dropped Pervertor, which was a pretty intense set of
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Sunn O))) & Ulver come together for a collaborative album whose recording process has been ongoing since 2008. Despite the short length of this thing, Terrestrials shows a balanced fusion of each artist’s sound.
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New York’s Artificial Brain comes through with a galactic take on technical death metal on their debut album.
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Curse of the Haunted by Dea Marica A lot of death/doom heaviness packed into this debut album from London metal trio Dea Marica. Throughout Curse of the Haunted, frontman Riccardo Veronese’s voice is exceptionally powerful, whether it be clean and operatic or coarse and growled, and multi-instrumentalist Roberto
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German gloom jazz quartet Bohren & Der Club of Gore have a new album out of some more of the moodiest “fahrstuhlmusik” (elevator music) you’re likely to ever hear. It’s called Piano Nights, and above you can check out the fittingly surreal and noir-style music video for cut
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Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes by USA Out Of Vietnam Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes, the latest project from hard-to-explain Montreal act USA out of Vietnam, is capable of scratching many musical itches at once. Here, the band combines elements of drone, doom, prog rock, and psych pop so seamlessly
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More Constant Than The Gods by SubRosa More doom outfits should embrace the violin. That’s the lesson to be learned from More Constant than the Gods, the latest album from Salt Lake City experimental metal band SubRosa. The project is comprised of six hulking, behemoths of songs, nearly all
