Taking its name from the 1974 Spanish-Italian answer to the seminal ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ the riff salad of “The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue,” which kicks off Carcass’ ‘Despicable’ EP, comes on like [...]
Tomorrow’s Rain’s debut record kicks off with the one-two 6/8 punch of “Trees” and “Fear. These tracks serve as good indicators of what follows—ambient, almost pastoral doom that crawls along at a measured pace. [...]
Beginning with his tenure under Ritchie Blackmore on Rainbow’s divisive ‘Down to Earth’ record, Graham Bonnet has long been associated with some of the greatest guitarists in metal history. Most notably, both Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve [...]
Once a distant memory, Sweden’s Sorcerer were hopeless to escape the call of the void and jumped back in headlong in 2010 after an 18-year hiatus. Never a band to operate entirely within the confines of doom, it is apparent that their time away was [...]
Obsidian glass is characterized as hard, brittle, and amorphous; and as such, given to fracturing into sharp edges. Veteran doom dealers Paradise Lost’s powerful new record ‘Obsidian’ unquestionably lives up to its White Walker slaying [...]
Let’s knock-out the proverbial biggest guy in the prison yard first: if Khemmis’s new EP ‘Doomed Heavy Metal’ were simply a vehicle for delivering their cover of Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark”, the record would have [...]
The unhinged aggression of “Children of the Next Level” opens the proverbial gate with a bang. Its lumbering gallop adorned with Eastern-tinged harmonized guitars provides vocalist Chuck Billy with ample space to flex his gravel-throated [...]
Joahan Sadonis’s initial metal cred came from the excellent but short-lived The Oath before she hooked-up with Cathedral’s Gaz Jennings for ‘Lucifer I.’ Having seen Lucifer on tour for their first record, I was struck by how [...]
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