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Thorn ‘The Encompassing Nothing’
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Review: Thorn ‘The Encompassing Nothing’ EP

28th September 202026th October 2020 Will J Brutal Cave Productions, Death Doom, Gurgling Gore, The Encompassing Nothing, Thorn

There’s few things that please me more in death metal than when an artist manages to blend old and new

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Jupiterian ‘Protosapien’
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Review: Jupiterian ‘Protosapien’

4th September 20207th October 2020 Jamie Grimes Death Doom, Jupiterian, Protosapien, Transcending Obscurity Records

I keep seeing the word ‘sludge’ used in relation to Brazilian coffin botherers Jupiterian, and it always strikes me as

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Burial Fog ‘Burial Fog’ EP
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Review: Burial Fog ‘Burial Fog’ EP

18th August 202016th September 2020 Matt Alexander Burial Fog, Death Doom, Independent, Self Titled

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is home to the obnoxiously heavy Philadelphia Cheese-Steak. It’s also home to something else that is obnoxiously heavy

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Bible Basher 'Loud Wailing'
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Review: Bible Basher ‘Loud Wailing’ EP

30th July 202014th September 2020 Mark Hunt-Bryden Bible Basher, Death Doom, Loud Wailing, Sludge, Sludgelord Records

Bible Basher are a ‘supergroup’ compromised of members from various respected underground UK heavyweights, Temple of Coke, Kurokuma, Archelon and

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Xibalba ‘Años En Infierno’
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Review: Xibalba ‘Años En Infierno’

4th June 202023rd June 2020 Matt Alexander Años En Infierno, Death Doom, Hardcore, Southern Lord, Xibalba

Xibalba, or The Place Of Fear, is the underworld from Maya mythology, home to the Maya death gods who have

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Paradise Lost ‘Obsidian’
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Review: Paradise Lost ‘Obsidian’

26th May 202023rd June 2020 Sandy Williamson Death Doom, Nuclear Blast Records, Obsidian, Paradise Lost

Where do you even begin with a band as legendary as Paradise Lost? Pioneers of death/doom and gothic doom, creators

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Funeral Leech ‘Death Meditation’
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Review: Funeral Leech ‘Death Meditation’

15th April 202024th February 2021 Matt Alexander Carbonized Records, Death Doom, Death Meditation, Funeral Leech

As the darkness swallows the light and envelops the world, you open your eyes to the monolithic nothingness that has

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Coffins 'Beyond The Circular Demise'
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Review: Coffins ‘Beyond The Circular Demise’

1st October 201914th October 2019 Sandy Williamson Beyond The Circular Demise, Coffins, Death Doom, Doom, Relapse Records, Review

Legendarily prolific Japanese death/doom lords Coffins have returned with their first full length record since 2013’s The Fleshland, but they

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Hooded Menace 'Darkness Drips Forth'
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Hooded Menace ‘Darkness Drips Forth’ CD/LP/DD 2015

16th January 20161st November 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Darkness Drips Forth, Death Doom, Digital, Heavy, Hooded Menace, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson

Hooded Menace are what people are talking about when they think of death/doom these days, even if they don’t know

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Mourning Beloveth 'Rust & Bone'
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Mourning Beloveth ‘Rust & Bone’ CD 2016

6th January 20161st November 2019 Angela Davey 2016, Angela Davey, CD, Death Doom, Folk Doom, Heavy, Mourning Beloveth, Review, Rust & Bone, Ván Records

As far as the doom-death hybrid goes in the UK and Ireland, Mourning Beloveth are without a shadow of a

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Temple Of Void ‘Of Terror And The Supernatural’ CD/CS/DD Reissue 2015

11th September 20153rd September 2019 John Reppion 2015, Cassette, CD, Death Doom, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, John Reppion, Of Terror And The Supernatural, Reissue, Review, Shadow Kingdom Records, Temple of Void

Temple Of Void are a death/doom five piece from Detroit, Michigan, USA. Together since 2013, Of Terror And The Supernaturalis

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