drone

Track Premiere: Rorcal – “Early Mourning”

July 4, 2023

Hear Swiss black metal mavens Rorcal rise ’n’ slay on their new single, “Early Mourning.”

Track Premiere: Pylar – “Límite”

May 18, 2023

Hear experimental occult drone/doom collective Pylar, featuring members of Orthodox and Teitanblood, unleash a haunting new sonic hellscape.

Track Premiere: Satanath – “Lethal Exekution”

May 4, 2022

Dark ambient project Satanath deconstructs post-metal in the ten-year anniversary reissue of their album Metallized Arena.

Demo:listen: Worn Mantle

April 19, 2022

This week’s Demo:listen falls beneath the lead shadow of Minneapolis black/death three-piece Worn Mantle.

Full Album Premiere: An Evening Redness – ‘An Evening Redness’

February 24, 2022

Hear An Evening Redness conjure up a desert-dwelling American soundscape that fuses the best elements of drone into a soaring masterpiece.

Video Premiere: Sum of R – “Crown of Diseased”

February 7, 2022

Watch the first video and single from Sum of R‘s harrowingly heavy and delicately beautiful new LP Lahbryce.

Video Premiere: The Exit Bags – ‘Shingles’

October 4, 2021

The Exit Bags set a depressing mood with new song “Shingles.”

Listen: Body Void – ‘Wound’

March 1, 2021

Soul-crushing drone-doom unit Body Void return with demoralizing new single, “Wound.”

Heavy Metal Short Film “Landgraves” is a Blizzard of Suspense

September 15, 2020

Heavy metal short film Landgraves conjures suspense from snowstorms and blackened doom. Watch this festival standout now.

Video Premiere: Geist & the Sacred Ensemble – “Closed Eye”

July 16, 2020

Pacific Northwest doom-folk collective Geist & the Sacred Ensemble share the meditative, ominous video of “Closed Eye” from their upcoming LP, Waning Hymns.

Interview: Atavist’s Evocative Doom Returns with ‘III: Absolution’

June 17, 2020

Manchester doom artisans Atavist are back to disrupt a decade of silence with their cathartic ode to loss and resilience, III: Absolution.

Track Premiere: Echtra – ‘BardO I’

November 14, 2018

Echtra summons a haunting, lonely atmosphere on “BardO I.”

Watch: They Grieve – ‘All That a Body Can Suffer’

July 24, 2018

They Grieve unleash depressed drone doom with new video for “All That a Body Can Suffer.”

Track Premiere: Amarok – ‘VIII Skeleton’

April 12, 2018

Amarok are well on their way to becoming masters of sprawling, droning doom if the first single from Devoured is any indication.

Track Premiere: B R I Q U E V I L L E – ‘Akte V’

August 29, 2017

Stream a new offering from anonymous post-metal cult B R I Q U E V I L L E now!

Track Premiere: The Bug Vs. Earth – ‘Don’t Walk These Streets’

March 9, 2017

“‘Don’t Walk These Streets’ was really written as a reaction to feeling absolutely alienated and set adrift in the surreal manifestation of the American Dream that is L.A,” Kevin Martin says. “It’s a smacked out jazz, fuzzed up trip, into a social void, that I wrote after realizing there is zero safety net in the States for anyone that falls off the gravy train. And as a pedestrian walking a lot around the city in my stay during the recording of Concrete Desert, I attempted to conjure the feeling of sheer dread that I felt wandering across the Hollyweird landscape.”

Track Premiere: Gridfailure – ‘Hostile Alchemist’

February 16, 2017

Gridfailure reveals the secrets of a “Hostile Alchemist” on the first part of their upcoming EP.

Worm Ouroboros

December 5, 2016

What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10

Track Premiere: Theologian and Lament Cityscape Join Forces for ‘Inevitability’

October 12, 2016

Soft Tissue, the collaborative album between Lament Cityscape and Theologian, aims to combine the best elements of both bands. “Inevitability” is the first taste of that collaboration.

TO THE MILKY WAY & BEYOND: EXCLUSIVE DARSOMBRA PREMIERE

August 10, 2016

“Trans-apocalyptic” psych droners Darsombra are about to hit you up with some seriously weird , perception-expanding atmospherics when the band drops Polyvision — its first album in four years — on September 9 via Translation Loss just six days ahead of a sure-to-be-memorable appearance at Shadow Woods Metal Fest.

Author & Punisher

July 7, 2015

Melk En Honing
Drinking and driven
dB Rating: 8/10

TMaFLH Update: The Cold View

November 7, 2014

Last year we featured a German drone/doom project called The Cold View, who had, at that point, recorded a five-song suite called Weeping Winter that could successfully leech all heat-potential from a newborn star and leave behind only frozen dust and brittle ash. Luckily for anyone still able to feel positive emotion after listening to Weeping Winter,…