Tag Thergothon
As a label Transcending Obscurity have had a great year and an outstanding attitude in pushing new talent so here we are with another debut, this time some funeral doom from the spiritual home of the genre, Finland. At thirty-seven… Continue Reading →
There always seems to be a moment with me when a Skepticism album just becomes the world. Sometimes, as with Alloy, it is literally the first notes, that exhalation as it breathes life into the room. Other times, as with… Continue Reading →
Another artist on the Aesthetic Death roster who are new to me. Well, that’s kind of how it goes for this idiosyncratic label, and all power to them as they release some real head-scratching, soul punching, brain tingling albums. And… Continue Reading →
Finnish doom, eh? Well doom death bordering on the funereal anyway. ‘Father Of Sickness’ crawls out of the blocks like a slightly more animated Unholy with a kind of sense of that first Paradise Lost album in the eerie and… Continue Reading →
There is clearly something afoot in the Coltsblood camp, just from looking at the cover of this long awaited follow up to 2014’s Into The Unfathomable Abyss. That debut was a remarkable tomb of blackened sludge and Celtic Frost dragged… Continue Reading →
Thergothon. Skepticism. Tyranny. All reasons why the mere description ‘Finnish funeral doom’ had me clamouring to hear this album. Profetus do not disappoint. Their style is utterly, crushingly leaden, yet at the same time delicate and airy, with penetrating church-organ-like… Continue Reading →
Another Russian funeral doom album from the ever-reliable Solitude Productions, Everlasting’s album cover and title had me expecting something in the vein of Skepticism/Thergothon. This proved to be largely true, with empyreal, church-organ-like synths enveloping each of the album’s four… Continue Reading →
With cover art featuring a joyously glowing daisy, you’d be forgiven for thinking this album was some kind of hippie chillout extravaganza had it not been for the fact you are currently perusing Ave Noctum. Of course, reality is far… Continue Reading →
More mystery and intrigue from Ea a band who are rumoured to be from Russia but this could just be due to the fact they are on Russian label Solitude Productions. Little is known about them apart from the fact… Continue Reading →