Review: Godthrymm ‘Projections’

2nd September 20262nd September 2026 Sandy Williamson Doom, Godthrymm, Profound Lore Records

I’m not quite ready to induct Godthrymm fully into the Yorkshire Doom Hall of Fame (which is not a thing but really should be), however, the journey of legendary My Dying Bride guitarist Hamish Glencross and his pet project has been something very exciting to behold. Bursting back into the scene on 2018’s A Grand Reclamation EP, Godthrymm followed up with their incredible 2020 debut full-length, Reflections.

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While they have paid plenty of tribute to their frontman’s old band over the years, they now seem ready to step out of that miserable, violin-soaked shadow and into the sickly light of day themselves. Their third full length, Projections, completes their three-record Vision Trilogy after 2023’s excellent Distortions and is out now through Profound Lore.

The gloomy lumber of Trenches Deep is just what the plague doctor ordered for their new album with a classically miserable Yorkshire doom riff and a melancholic atmosphere enveloping it. But there is more to this than ‘let’s play Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride riffs forever’; as usual with Godthrymm they aren’t interested in retreading past glories but creating something more their own. The uplifting vocal passages and galloping closing section take this in a more epic heavy metal direction, but with Adie Bailey (English Dogs) and Jason Walsh (Xentrix) doing guest vocals, this wasn’t going to feel like your traditional doom track.

A grandiose addition to the canon of great British doom records…

The vocal interplay between Hamish and Catherine Glencross is key to this enrichment of the band’s sound, as it gives the whole album a much more epic doom atmosphere. It’s also faster and more aggressive in places, not merely content with a slower crawl but Truth In My Own gets up to quite a rampage when it gets going. I love those dynamic shifts as songs reach an apex, like on The Sun Never Fell and its atmospheric first half turning into a bruising beast of doom.

Meanwhile, old pal Aaron Stainthorpe makes a remarkably poignant guest appearance on the weeping doom of Endure My Skin takingit straight back down into the mire. To see Stainthorpe and Glencross back together again brings a black tear to this old doom head’s eye, and the song is so majestic and morose, you’ve got to hope this collaboration comes back again soon. I also love the old school bluesy croon of Jewels, where Catherine takes centre stage and nails another stylistic shift with aplomb.

Less an ode to the past than a brave stride towards the future of British doom, Projections is a record that takes heed of that foundation but builds the band’s own palace upon the rocks. Aggressively epic, yet rich and multilayered, Godthrymm are a band who are more than the sum of their parts and this record shows it probably better than anything they’ve done since their debut. It has been a journey across windswept moors in the driving rain to reach this point, but the destination is warm, welcoming and richly rewarding. A grandiose addition to the canon of great British doom records.