The new release from Magister Templi, “Lucifer Leviathan Logos“, captured a real classic doom and occult style metal that I was curious about how the release came together. It is a high quality release displaying all that is great about this particular style of music. Thank...

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Cardinals Folly is a heavy doom laden band from Helsinki, Finland which were gathered together around 2004 under initial label of The Coven but have since changed their moniker to Cardinals Folly. “Strange Conflicts of the Past” is their first LP release having 4 EPs...

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Revelation are a band who have been around for quite some time, having been active since the mid-1980s with a split between 1996 and 2003. Since that time the band have evolved from their doom metal beginnings and veered towards a lighter, more progressive hard...

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Having re-joined doom legends Pentagram for their “Last Rites” album and tour and then subsequently left again, guitarist Victor Griffin has put together a new band called In-Graved and their style fits very much under the banner of doom metal – shocker! However, the idea...

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Recently we have seen the likes of Pentagram, Bedemon, Saint Vitus, Grand Magus all come forward with exceptionally strong releases in the area of doom metal. This is but a sampling of the new material created under the doom genre and as of late there...

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Down is a metal supergroup consisting of (former) members of Crowbar, Eyehategod, Pantera and Corrosion Of Conformity. Their “Nola” and “Over The Under” albums are key albums within the whole sludge/doom metal genre. Now Phil Anselmo and his musical partners in crime are back with...

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Doom metal, we can immediately think US, England, or Sweden and maybe even Canada but Germany is never a country image that comes up with the mention of this genre. Thrash metal sure, death metal ok, but doom metal, not so much. Well it is...

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After listening and writing a few thoughts about the upcoming Bedemon release, I got the chance to talk with Geof O’Keefe about the release, its history, and music in general. Its not often that you get a great back story along with a great release....

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Bedemon is an old school US doom metal band with strong ties to early Pentagram, their latest work, “Symphony of Shadows”, has been a decade in the making and is their first stab at new material for these doomsters. Set with that distinct early US...

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Earthen Grave have been around since late 2008 and are a Chicago based doom metal band. This band of six has somehow gone out and captured the old style of American doom à la Trouble and Saint Vitus without being a worship band to either or...

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Back for our second installment, Days Of The Doomed Fest is heading north to the Milwaukee area, and bringing 18 of the best stoner/doom bands from around the U.S. with us! This year we are extremely proud to announce the debut gig from The Skull!...

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