doom – The Sound Projector

19/11/2020 Ed Pinsent

Dark Staircase Functions

Fairly grim noise-rock-plod grinderoo from Kragrowargkomn on the album TMA (URBSOUNDS URB048) from Urbsounds…recorded in Slovakia and carrying sleeve design,

08/11/2020 nausika

VII: darkly monumental drone noise electronics terror for the pandemic age

KTL, VII, Editions Mego, Austria, EMEGO 287 cassette / vinyl (2020) For a project initially established to provide music for

27/10/2020 nausika

Proclamation ov the Black Suns: a very striking and solid debut album of 1990s’-era second-wave black metal with an experimental slant

Dkharmakhaoz, Proclamation ov the Black Suns, Germany, Iron Bonehead Productions, IBP 476 CD digipak / vinyl LP (2020) A very

18/10/2020 nausika

Sel de Pierre: powerful epic blackened depressive sludge doom with a hint of hope and optimism

Vous Autres, Sel de Pierre, France, Season of Mist Underground Activists, SUA117 CD digipak / 12″ vinyl LP (2020) Not

17/10/2020 nausika

Eternity of Shaog: deranged blackened death Lovecraftian demonic possession par excellence

Esoctrilihum, Eternity of Shaog, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, IVR130 double LP / CD (2020) MAD FRENCH BLACK METAL ACT ALERT!

30/09/2020 nausika

Timewheel: primeval forces of nature and time, once worshipped as gods, calling to listeners in atmospheric black metal debut

Gloosh, Timewheel, Russia, Slowsnow Records, no catalogue number, cassette / Russia, Casus Belli Musica, CBM 77 vinyl LP / Germany,

19/09/2020 nausika

Kryptograf (self-titled): psychedelic doom metal debut plays safe with Sabbath-worshipping pop songs

Kryptograf, self-titled, Norway, Apollon Records, AP072 CD, LP (2020) Proof positive that anything anyone can do, the Norwegians can do

05/08/2020 nausika

A new solo atmospheric black / funereal doom metal protagonist’s debut explores alienation and death as creation in “Act I: The Protagonist”

Eyeless In Gaza, Act I: The Protagonist, Russia, Solitude Productions, SP. 152-20 CD digipak (2020) I must admit I had

06/07/2020 nausika

The Key to the Shrine of Putrefaction: a doomy occult ritual horror soundtrack on drums and bass guitars

Arvalastra, The Key to the Shrine of Putrefaction, Spain, Ignis Fatuus Collective, CD (2020) Doom metal using only electric bass

03/07/2020 nausika

Golden Hour: a massive epic of highly immersive and transcendental atmospheric black metal / doom

Awenden, Golden Hour, United States, Realm and Ritual, RAR038 limited edition cassette (2020) Featuring themes that include respect for nature