Friday, June 28, 2013

ROTE MARE – ‘The Invocation’ & ‘The Kingdom’

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Frantic drumming, repetitious 80’s riffing, and a banshee-like wail opens ‘The Invocation’, the first of two simultaneous releases from Aus...
Friday, May 31, 2013

…Fire burn and cauldron bubble: BLOOD CEREMONY – ‘The Eldritch Dark’

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Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d—an appropriate portent for the release of Blood Ceremony’s third full-length, ‘The Eldritch Dark’. The To...
Monday, May 20, 2013

FUNERAL CIRCLE – ‘Funeral Circle’

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Vancouver, British Columbia’s Funeral Circle caught my attention a few years ago with the release of their debut EP ‘Sinister Sacrilege’. I...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

…Better to reign in Hell: PROCESSION – ‘To Reap Heavens Apart’

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Few bands manage to occupy the soaring, majestic realm of doom that Procession presides over. Over the span of a couple of EPs and a full-l...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

...to the fiery Hell below: DIRE FATE/ ROTE MARE – Split

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I don’t know what they’re putting in the drinking water in Australia, but the land down under has spawned two exceptional traditional doom ...

…The time has come for sacrifice: Cough/Windhand – ‘Reflection of the Negative’

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Richmond, Virginia’s brethren in doom, Cough and Windhand—two likeminded yet distinct edges of a sacrificial blade—have joined forces to re...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

…This is where the nightmares go: CURSE THE SON – ‘Psychache’

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If Connecticut’s Curse the Son flew by undetected with their 2011 debut, ‘Klonopain’, then they should be a giant fucking blip lighting up ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

…Seperation can be a…terrifying thing: FISTER – ‘Gemini’

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St. Louis, Missouri’s masters of malevolent doom, Fister, have on all accounts topped their previous EPs and excellent debut full-length, ‘...