Doomsday // June 2021
A monolithic greeting unto thee, Heaviest of All Bloggers! It is unbelievably good to be writing to you all again. I know I do this every month, but this month feels very different for me. My wife and I are fu... Read More...
Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
Body Void have all-but settled in as one of extreme music’s elite with their benchmark-setting heaviness, unloading a similar combination of formidable tone, power, and structure as genre heavyweights Primitiv... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen to 9 Minutes of Gargantuan Doom From Bethmoora
From the rampant, murky underground of Copenhagen's extreme music scene comes Bethmoora. Their name taken from Lord Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales (itself a big influence on the fantasy and dark science-fiction wo... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen to Naisian’s Murky Sludgebastard Metal
Sheffield trio Naisian return with their first LP in nine years and in the process do their best to have their hometown renamed from the Steel City, to Sludge City (yeah, that slam band tried it before but Nais... Read More...
Isaurian – Chains of Blue
For some artists, it takes a while for them to hit their stride. It’s cool, everyone’s got their own speed or method, and in most cases, the mistakes or missed opportunities along the way make for a legitimate... Read More...
Elephant Tree – Habits
Few things beat big sounds to me. An artist’s ability to fill your ears with a wall of sound gives the music a unique presence that’s wholly its own. All music has some kind of presence of course, but you can’... Read More...
Earth Moves – Human Intricacy
Fresh off a short UK tour with rising formidable heavy weights Conjurer and LLNN, Earth Moves are back with a gripping and powerful sophomore release of emotive post-metal, Human Intricacy. Their debut The Tru... Read More...
Strigoi – Abandon All Faith
I think everyone has their own particular tastes they
gravitate to. It’s not exactly a guilty pleasure though. It’s just your personal
taste. But despite it being your favorite, it can get a little stale after... Read More...
Cult of Luna – A Dawn To Fear
In their much anticipated follow-up to Mariner, the band returned to their core writing mode free of outside collaborators for their Metal Blade debut A Dawn To Fear, and have simplified their songwriting process to eschew a full-album concept, instead offering a collection of independent songs without preconceptions in the writing process. The result of this experiment is a record that is massive, plodding, expansive, and pensive, if not daunting and exhausting for those who aren't too keen on The Big Slow™
Wallowing – Planet Loss
Where to start with a traditionally British doom band that have plunged headfirst into a dystopian sci-fi future fitting of the artwork they adorn their debut with? Wallowing's debut full-length Planet Loss (th... Read More...