Slomatics, Future Echo Returns, United Kingdom, Black Bow Records, CD (2016) In the liner notes of a past album of theirs, Belfast-based
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The Sontaran Experiment (self-titled): immersion into a world of dissolution with no chance of renewal
The Sontaran Experiment, self-titled, United Kingdom, Undergroove, UGCD054 (2008) Sadly whatever ambrosia juice the Time Lords used to drink
Continue readingSistere: an epic debut of fusion post-rock / doom / sludge metal
Izah, Sistere, Sweden, Nordvis Produktion, digipak CD NVP028 (2015) For a debut album, “Sistere” is a whopper at 72 minutes
Continue readingIlmasaari: a good booming start for blackened doom duo Ashtar
Ashtar, Ilmasaari, Switzerland, Czar of Crickets Productions, limited edition CD CZAR027 (2015) Although the two members of Swiss band Ashtar
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Here’s another scorching blast of intense negativity and doomified howl from Cadaver Eyes, the Israel-based duo of drummer-vocalist David Opp
Continue readingThe Terrible Comet Salt
Four sides of claustrophobic electronic doom-drone from Austria by Regolith, on their double LP I (ROCK IS HELL RECORDS RIP67).
Continue readingDyodyo Asema: fusion sludge and noise ambient BM soundtrack of implied horror
Gnaw Their Tongues / Alkerdeel, Dyodyo Asema, Belgium, ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0033 (2014) Those of us familiar with the lumbering sludge BM of
Continue readingShip of Theseus: still sailing seas of vast microtonal black / doom metal waters
Jute Gyte, Ship of Theseus, Jeshimoth Entertainment, CDR JES068 (2015) No sooner did Jute Gyte’s Adam Kalmbach complete the trilogy “Discontinuities”, “Vast
Continue readingThe Triumph of Ruin: a solid and earnest effort in post-apocalyptic funereal doom
The Howling Void, The Triumph of Ruin, Avantgarde Music (2016) The Howling Void … now here’s a good name for
Continue readingKofuku: don’t resist the clutch of this depressive sludge doom psychedelia fusion pop / rock debut
Low Flying Hawks, Kofuku, Magnetic Eye Records, CD MER040 (2016) An interesting new presence coming over the horizon of sludge
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