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Headshrinker – Callous Indifference (Real Mental Health Blackened Death Doom)
Now here’s an approach we could use more of: an empathetic, but not pathetic, consideration of mental illness. Not as an “oh so very scary crazy person” aesthetic, but one trapped in loneliness, depression, and all that good stuff that makes people creative in their desire for an escape from their own physical prison. […]
Antonio Painkiller \ doom metal \ Italy \ like hard rock or something \ Seeing Red Records
SUUM – Cryptomass (Not Total Ass Italian Doom)
Okay Italy, okay, there is hope, after all. In case you missed it, which I know you did, I’ve been ripping on Italian doom metal over the past couple years because pretty much any submission I’ve gotten from the country in said genre has been total ass. The primary reason is this strange tendency […]
Aqualamb Recordings \ Cleveland \ doom metal \ doomgaze \ Lay Bare Recordings \ Ohio \ post-metal \ United States \ wow so vast
Frayle – 1692 (Bitter Doom for the Broken Soul)
Most doom is satisfied thematically with smoking or taking drugs, tossing tabletop RPG dice, witch stuff, or plain sloth. They don’t hide it, either, and with a simple name or cover you know exactly what to expect and you’re both disappointed and not. But as of late female-fronted doom has been a particular favorite […]
-ess \ Adele Mildred \ Deadlight Records \ doom metal \ Fiend \ Paris \ psychedelic rock \ sludge
Fiend – Seeress (Doompth Metal)
Yo I just came up with a new term: “doompth metal.” At first read that sounds horrible, like a new taunt. You doompthus! That, another new word, is definitely a taunt, but doompth is not, sometimes. Okay let me be honest here it kind of is. Truth be told it’s all I could come […]
Amor Fati Productions \ Berlin \ doom metal \ Essenz
Essenz – Manes Impetus (Pandering Black Metal)
Manes Impetus, the latest from Berlin, Germany’s Essenz, is nearly an hour long which is fine if the goal is to produce a musical journey encapsulating the musical anguish of the forebears, artistic sadism, and creative passions. Aesthetic value 10/10, but we don’t score like that here whoops. This one progresses through some fairly […]
Canada \ doom metal \ electronic fart \ funeral doom \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Malsanctum \ the other way \ two-minutes to the funeral
Malsanctum – S/T (Two Minutes to Funeral Doom’s Funeral)
Well, here it is, likely the first time something from Iron Bonehead Productions actually depresses me in the other way. I prefer the “why does the human race exist?” type of depression, but this is more of a “why was this album released?” sadness. Now, please pause, for I have already started this on an […]
Brazil \ doom metal \ Fernando Drowned \ Minas Gerais \ Osmose Productions \ spoom metal \ The Evil \ The Most Destructive Art
The Evil – S/T (Non-Evil, Mask-Wearing Doom Metal)
I saw the masks and I wanted to enjoy this thoroughly. The cover, by Fernando Drowned of The Most Destructive Art, had me mask-loving, But, as it turns out I only enjoyed the music partially. There’s something less threatening about doomers wearing masks on stage than you find with blackened death metal or black […]
ambient \ black metal \ blackened death metal \ Bloodsoaked Records \ cassette \ Cassette Assault \ Cerecloth \ death industrial \ death metal \ Divergent Series \ doom metal \ drone \ experimental \ Iron Noose \ No Visible Scars \ noise \ One Master \ RID \ Russia \ sludge metal \ stoner metal \ Sunmask \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal \ The Death Wheelers \ UIS \ Witchstone
CASSETTE ASSAULT (Stuff I’ve Been Sitting Upon)
It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, and that’s primarily because of a special app I’m seriously working on for the site where I can give some press to stuff I don’t review on in this way anymore. Bad art, or just ehhh releases, will all have their due eventually. Sometimes this […]
20 Buck Spin \ black metal \ death metal \ doom metal \ Finland \ Finnish death metal \ Ghastly \ Riikka Pesonen
Ghastly – Death Velour (Finnish Death Metal Tho)
Man that Finnish death metal sound. How I forgot! How I could go on about it forever, though this is only the second band in memory I liked from Finland. Out of any country plugging the death metal hole till bursting, Sweden is the one that consistently gets the attention. Not because it’s all so good, […]
doom metal \ melancholic ghost metal \ Pedro Carmo \ Portugal \ post-metal \ season of mist \ SINISTRO \ sludge metal \ that singing is great metal
SINISTRO – Sangue Cássia
I’m either just getting more emotionally biased as I age, or this band’s style is one of the directions in which metal needs to go come on now get with it. I don’t recall ever hearing of SINISTRO until this moment, well not this exact moment, but this point in time let’s get existential. Their label, Season […]
