Greetings heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! Welcome to Doomsday, our monthly roundup of all things slow, low, and otherwise doom related. 2018 is truly picking up steam and I’m (not at all) embarrassed to admit that I’ve already begun thinking about my year-end sludge pile and what records might make it…
Being an up and coming doom band in the UK is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the arguable home of doom metal seems like the blessed and fertile ground to begin conjuring the magic of slow and low, with the immense history and a nearly overwhelming…
Flick…flick…bubble…exhale. Though maybe there should be a few extra flicks and bubbles since we’ve been waiting nearly 20 years for a new Sleep record. The stoner legends surprised us all on April 20th when they dropped The Sciences with less than 24 hours notice. And their first album since the…
Five years on from their atmospheric, neofolk-inspired album, A Forgotten Land, Australia’s Encircling Sea have returned with a release that takes the band’s unique blend of black, post, and doom metal in a fresh new direction. While their latest effort, Hearken, retains elements from all these genres, it tends to…
Greetings, heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! Welcome to Doomsday, our monthly roundup of some of the most noteworthy releases in the doom world released over the past month. April was a true sleeper month for doom as some of the most titanic releases were saved for the month’s back half. Who knows? Maybe there was even a surprise release last week you heard about perhaps? With this much to bang our heads to, we better get straight to it. Enough chatter! Grab your earplugs, it’s doomsday.
A musician’s “return” after an extended absence from music (whether that be from an intentional hiatus or otherwise) is an interesting peek into their creative headspace. Do they prove themselves creatures of habit, or were they reinvented over this intermission? In the case of Ails, it’s a little of both.…
Greetings, heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! Welcome to Doomsday, our monthly roundup of doom-centric releases from the last month that deserve some extra praise. March has been a particularly hellish (in a good way) month for the greater doom landscape, so be sure to go back and check out some of…
It’s no secret that we here at Heavy Blog are big fans of Green Druid’s drug-tinged, psychedelic take on riff-worshiping doom. The band represents the vanguard for a new generation of amp-smashing stoner doomers and it only makes sense that the flagbearers of the scene’s future hail from Denver, Colorado,…
In a relatively short period of time, Black Bow Records has established itself as the go-to label for doom metal of the thickly toned, impossibly heavy variety. Fronted by Conan’s own Jon Paul Davis (which should give you a pretty accurate impression of the label’s overall feel), Black Bow has…
Holy Moly, what a split! Black Bow Records is continuing strong in its quest to be doom’s Most Valuable Label of 2018 with a new release pairing two of the most exciting names in UK doom, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard and Slomatics. Totems is a gift from the doom gods,…
