Germany’s Ahab warned fans to prepare for imminent musical growth as they neared the release of third album, The…
Ahab – The Giant (2012)
Shining – Redefining Darkness (2012)
Redefining Darkness is the eighth studio album by the Swedish black metal band Shining.[3] It was released through Spinefarm…
Shining – Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt (2012)
Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt is an EP by the Swedish black metal band Shining. It…
Shining – Född Förlorare (2011)
Född förlorare (Born Loser) is the seventh album by Shining, released by Spinefarm Records on May 25, 2011…
Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65 (2012)
When the criminally unheralded career of underground doom icons Saint Vitus whimpered to an inglorious…
Moonspell – Alpha Noir / Omega White (2012)
Alpha Noir / Omega White is the tenth full-length album by the Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, released on…
Earthen Grave – Earthen Grave (2012)
As a doom band based out of Chicago, Earthen Grave will never have their name discussed without a guaranteed…
Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol (2012)
Released in 2012, Tragic Idol is Paradise Lost’s 13th studio album, and fourth since re-embracing heavy metal…
The Foreshadowing – Oionos (2010)
Italy’s the Foreshadowing emerged from a two-year silence in 2010, bearing the “gifts” of melancholy doom…
The Foreshadowing – Second World (2012)
From September 2011 to February 2012 The Foreshadowing have completed their third act of apocalypse…
UFOmammut – ORO: Opus Alter (2012)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — well, some six months earlier anyway, at, errrr — a record store not too far from here, UFOmammut…
UFOmammut – Oro: Opus Primum (2012)
Pink Floyd may have gone to the Dark Side of the Moon, Hawkwind In Search of Space, and the Melvinsto Gluey Porch…
UFOmammut – Eve (2010)
For their fourth long-playing album and sixth official release overall, Italy’s UFOmammut have chosen to compose a single…
Barren Earth – The Curse of the Red River (2010)
This Finnish art-doom band is something of an underground all-star project, featuring members or ex-members of Swallow the Sun, Kreator, Amorphis…
Barren Earth – The Devil’s Resolve (2012)
The Devil’s Resolve is the second full-length album by Finnish progressive death metal band Barren Earth. [1] The album is said to contain even more 1970s progressive…
Asphyx – Deathhammer (2012)
Deathhammer is the eighth studio album by Dutch death/doom band Asphyx. The album was released on February…
Orange Goblin – A Eulogy for the Damned (2012)
For a while there, things looked pretty grim for lovable stoner metal stalwarts Orange Goblin…their sixth studio album, and third since branching out beyond their stoner/space rock foundations, 2007′s Healing…
Swallow the Sun – Emerald Forest and the Blackbird (2012)
Although they’ve generally remained sonically true to their melodic death/doom foundations over the course of four-and-a-half, mostly superlative albums, Finland’s…
High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis (2012)
While one would be hard-pressed to characterize any of the album’s in High on Fire’s devastating oeuvre as particularly “weak,” there was certainly a mild sense of creative stasis hovering around…
Cathedral – Anniversary (2011)
By the time English doom metal institution Cathedral announced that 2011 would be their last year as a performing concert unit (with a final studio album slated for the following year), they’d already…
Grand Magus – The Hunt (2012)
Grand Magus was so far ahead of the heavy metal revival curve that its initial releases were categorized as doom or stoner rock, and by the time the old iron lady actually took off, midway…
The Sword – Apocryphon (2012)
After conquering the realms of fantasy and science fiction, classic metal revivalists The Sword head into a more metaphysical space on their fourth…
Woods of Ypres – Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light (2012)
Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light is the fifth and final recorded album by Woods of Ypres. It was recorded in August 2011 at Beach…
Black Cobra – Invernal (2011)
Contrary to what some observers may presume, Black Cobra’s shift of producer from Bay Area veteran Billy…