Posts Tagged ‘Melodic Death/Doom’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 27th, 2023
If you get naked, cry, and sacrifice babies at the altar of death doom, you probably like Insomnium. So, I guess the GOP can start looking for pedophiles at their shows (or in their mirrors). I’m only here to help. I’m no fanboy, but I do enjoy their output, particularly my favorite of theirs, One […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Insomnium, J Mays, Melodic Death/Doom, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, September 18th, 2020
Much like Connecticut’s Fires In The Distance, Austin, TX’s Hinayana (‘Lesser Path’ in Sanskrit) is a US based band playing an excellent melodic doom death style that sounds like they come from Finland or some other Scandinavian shore that perfects this style of metal in their sleep. Deep vocals, crunchy guitars, layers of somber melody […]
Tags: 2020, Death/Doom Metal, Hinayana, Melodic Death/Doom, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Friday, October 4th, 2019
When a promo manages to name drop Insomnium, Turisas, Monnsorrow and Omnium Gatherum it its one sheet press release, you get my attention, if just to see how bloated the claims are. But this Finnish act has somehow managed to cull from all of their fellow Finns and drop a solid third album full of […]
Tags: 2019, Black Metal, E.Thomas, Lifeforce Records, Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Death/Doom, Review, Vorna
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
An oubliette, from the French word ‘oublier’ – to forget – is a dungeon. A particularly horrible and lonely sort of dungeon, little more than a hole in the ground. In you go, curled and cramped, and then a lid or stone is slid across the opening, trapping you in blackness while your body succumbs to pain, hunger, […]
Tags: 2014, Jordan Itkowitz, Melodic Black Metal, Melodic Death/Doom, Oubliette, Review, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, August 6th, 2012
This is the third full-length from St Petersburg’s Epitimia, a band listed as ambient black metal on the Metal Archives. I haven’t heard their previous releases, so I have to assume that’s correct, but on Faces of Insanity, their sound is more like a mix of the lush, melodic death/doom of Swedish and Finnish acts […]
Tags: 2012, Epitimia, Hypnotic Dirge Records, Jordan Itkowitz, Melodic Death/Doom, Review