Band info Band: The Mountain King Album: ‘Pike Dreams‘ Release: March 6th, 2026 Genre: doom, dungeon synth Location: Germany Review WARNING: This reviewer is not a fan of dungeon synth! Okay, so The Mountain King. They tag themselves as dungeon synth on Bandcamp, but what really piqued this reviewer’s interest was the fact that they […]
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Review: LOVE•LOVE•LOVE – First Love (EP, 2024) | Hardcore, sludge
Band info Band: LOVE•LOVE•LOVE Album: ‘First Love‘ Release: November 1st, 2024 Genre: post-hardcore, sludge Location: Germany Review It jumps at you right out the gate with LOVE•LOVE•LOVE‘s First Love EP. The very first few seconds of this sludge/noise rock / post-hardcore quartet from Lübeck, Germany, leave no space to ambiguity: Intense, brutal and very well […]
Review: Damhnait – Keeper of the Dead (Full album, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Damhnait Album: ‘Keeper of the Dead‘ Released: December 26th, 2025 Genre: black metal Location: US Review “Plant myself in undead soil Make matter of all this toil” These are the opening lines of the song “You Entered the Dwelling Place of Dead Tenderness Alive”. Rarely have we heard such laconic yet deeply meaningful […]
Review: Excommunicant – Reviresco (Full album, 2025) | Black, death, doom
https://youtu.be/Skh_qtqBM1s Band info Band: Excommunicant Album: ‘Reviresco‘ Relesed November 13th, 2025 Genre: death, doom, black Location: Canada Review Today, we bring one of those projects that resist categorisation by moving across multiple musical languages and genres. Excommunicant is a solo band based in Canada, and what you’ll be listening to is its second full-length release. […]
Review: Lighting Sun – Star of Bethlehem (EP, 2025) | Black metal
Band info Band: Lighting Sun Album: ‘Star of Bethlehem (Refugee)‘ Released: July 31st, 2025 Genre: doom black Location: US Review Lighting Sun is a black-doom band from California. ‘Star of Bethlehem‘ is their second album, following their first album in 2024 called ‘Man With No Name‘, as the title of their songs makes it clear, […]
Review: Greet – I Know How To Die (Full album, 2025) | Dark folk
https://youtu.be/eSklfGoaneo Band info Band: Greet Album: ‘I Know How To Die‘ Released: October 17th, 2025 Genre: dark folk Location: UK Review If you’re looking for the perfect album for a wet and windy Friday, this is it: Greet‘s debut full-length album, ‘I Know How To Die’. Much like their previous releases, this is yet another […]
gāſt – gāſt (Demo, 2025) | DSBM, funeral doom
Band info Band: gāſt Demo: ‘gāſt‘ Genre: DSBM, doom, post-black Released: August 24th, 2025 Location: US Review Hailing from New York, today’s band is gāſt, or Gāst, pronounced with a regular short “s” sound instead of a long one from the main from, but both interchangeably valid, which could be roughly from different roots as […]
Review: Aurora Ortus – Against Ourselves (Full album, 2025) | Post-black/doom
Band info Band: Aurora Ortus Album: ‘Against Ourselves’ Genre: post-black/doom Released: 22nd of October, 2025 Location: Brazil Artwork: oil painting by Eduardo Untura Review The Brazilian duo Aurora Ortus returns today with the premiere of their brand-new full-length: ‘Against Ourselves’! As we heard on their previous release ‘Ostrara‘, they blend post-black metal with atmospheric passages […]
mumuksu – breaking GOD (Full album, 2025) | Doom, black metal
Band info Band: mumuksu Album: ‘breaking GOD‘ Released: August 8th, 2025 Genre: experimental doom/drone Location: Malaysia Review Few subjects have been explored in metal as much as religion; some bands are inspired by it, while others (most, in fact) are adversarial to it. mumuksu falls firmly into the second camp, and thankfully, when many use […]
Single: Shrinewitch – “The Silver of the Starlight is Hanging in the Trees” (Single, 2025) | Raw doom
https://youtu.be/wVXCKt_GiZA Band info Band: Shrinewitch Song: “The Silver of the Starlight is Hanging in the Trees” Released: August 9th, 2025 Genre: raw doom metal Location: US Review Shrinewitch returns with her latest single, “The Silver of the Starlight is Hanging in the Trees“. A stance against silence carved from exhaustion and persistence, serving as a […]