Shape of Despair
Track Premiere: Counting Hours – “Away I Flow”
January 24, 2024 Chris Dick
Members of Shape of Despair/ex-Rapture, Impaled Nazarene, and ex-Colosseum lean into their Finnish gloom roots with Counting Hours.
The Top 5 Bands That Influenced The Abbey
December 19, 2022 Chris Dick
Finnish progressive doom outfit The Abbey, featuring members of Hexvessel and Shape of Despair, list their Top 5 Albums that influenced new album, Word of Sin.
Shape of Despair Announce East Coast Shows Ahead of Eternal Warfare Fest
April 29, 2019 Emily Bellino
Shape of Despair to play their first-ever live shows next month.
Shape of Despair Premiere Demo, “Shadowed Dreams”
September 28, 2016 Emily Bellino
Shape of Despair has released the first offering from Alone in the Mist, a collection of demos from the early days of the band.
The Doom is in the Digital
September 15, 2015 Jesse Chase
Just in time for fall: doom over the world… now available in ones and zeros.
STREAMING: Shape of Despair “Monotony Fields”
April 21, 2015 Chris Dick
“‘Monotony Fields’, is a song which reflects the album and its atmosphere the most for us. Slow trip into the mind of desperation,” says Shape of Despair in a band-released statement.
Click to read more and stream the premier of “Monotony Fields.”
Top 5 Funeral Doom Songs
December 31, 2012 Chris Dick
It is time to celebrate the death of 2012 with the Top 5 Funeral Doom Songs (of all time, perhaps). There is no rhyme or reason to this list, actually. Just five songs that always find their way home during the long cold nights of winter. If it’s not snowing or cold as a medieval…