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Thergothon — Stream from the Heavens
Rusty
Everlasting Influence: While Thergothon weren’t the only ones trending toward a slower style in the early 90’s, they sure became...
REVIEW
Quercus – Verferum
Kai
Verferum by Quercus presents itself as a haunting and unusually sacral interpretation of funeral doom: within extremely slow, heavy compositions,...
Review
The Nihilistic Front – World Destroyer
Kai
For a long time, things remained quiet around The Nihilistic Front. In 2014, the duo Gaz Martin and Chris Newell...
Review
Esoteric – Epistemological Despondency
Kai
In the confrontation between self, society, and a radically inaccessible Other, Epistemological Despondency, the debut album by Esoteric, can be...
Classic Revisited
The Contemporary economic and social Condition of Funeral Doom
Kai
In engaging with the central themes of the genre—the conceptual dimensions in which the music unfolds as a space of...
Feature
Esoteric -A Pyrrhic Existence
Kai
With A Pyrrhic Existence, the British funeral doom institution Esoteric released their first studio album since Paragon of Dissonance (2011)...
Review
Funeralium – Funeralium
Kai
Funeralium began as a collaboration between the groups Ataraxie and Heol Telwen. Over time, the band established itself as a...
Review
Vanha – Within the Mist of Sorrow
Kai
Within the Mist of Sorrow by Vanha is a musical and lyrical attempt to make depression congruent with its theme:...
Review
Esoteric – The Maniacal Vale
Kai
Released in 2008, Esoteric’s The Maniacal Vale represents an extreme point within the genre: in terms of its length, its...
Classic Revisited
Silent Deep Ocean – Essence of Existence
Kai
Between Pascal’s wager and Tillichian kenosis, Silent Deep Ocean craft with Essence of Existence a liturgical metaphysics of funeral doom...
Review
eldrovian — The Ontology of Ruin
Tycho
Ancient Masterminds Are you into philosophy? Regardless of whether the answer is yes or no, eldrovian sure are. Their latest...
Review
Mesmur – S
Kai
With S, Mesmur release an album that goes far beyond conventional genre boundaries. On the levels of sound, concept, and...
Review
Atone – Rebirth in Despair
Kai
With Rebirth in Despair, Atone deliver a modern take on funeral doom in 2026, integrating contemporary genre eclecticism without compromising...
Review
Lone Wanderer – Exequiae
Kai
With Exequiae, Lone Wanderer release their third album, continuing their Schopenhauerian approach to Funeral Doom. Breathy, reverberating growls, spoken passages,...
Review
Ritual Funeral Doom
Kai
Ritual Funeral Doom denotes an aesthetic configuration within Funeral Doom in which ritual sound structures are combined with archaic or...
Feature: Forms of Funeral Doom
Funeral Chasm – Omniversal Existence
Kai
It is certainly not enough to simply call Funeral Chasm’s with the debut Omniversal Existence THE Woebegone Obscured follow-up project....
Review
Oromet – The Sinking Isle
atheistpreacher
Review
Begräbnis – Izanaena
Kai
As a pubescent dumpling with shitty puberty problems and an ass full of nothing in my pocket, I had a...
Review
Pantheïst vs. Tempestuous Fall
Kai
Time for another Versus — this one examining two albums of solemn, sakral Atmospheric Doom. Malicious tongues might call it...
Versus
Brethen of Sadness – Eulogy Beneath Eternal Shadows
Kai
Eulogy Beneath Eternal Shadows by Brethen of Sadness is a post-gothic, literary-philosophical meditation on death, transience, and the inevitability of...
Review
Wijlen Wij – Wijlen Wij
Kai
“In Hinterpommern there is the Demant Mountain, one hour high, one hour wide, and one hour deep. Every hundred years,...
Classic Revisited
A Brief History of Funeral Doom
Kai
Last Book Before Doomsday A few years ago I compiled and revised various German reviews and analyses, gradually turning them...
Feature
Vofa – Vofa
Kai
Here we have a majestic work of sonic sorcery – a cross-referenced requiem resounding from the well-filled trough of downfall....
Review
Evoken – Mendacium
Kai
With Mendacium, Evoken not only reopen the gates to a soundscape in which time, space, and consciousness themselves begin to...
Review
Assumption vs. Epitaphe
Kai
Progressive Funeral and Death Doom, anyone? Here’s a double feature on offer.The Italians Assumption with Hadean Tides and the French...
Versus
The Ethereal – Miserere
Kai
Miserere marks the return of The Ethereal — one of the solo projects of the Belgian multi-instrumentalist Stijn van Cauter,...
Review
Decemberance – Implosion
Kai
To begin with, Decemberance must be recognized as an institution of Greek Extreme Doom.The current album reads like a biblically...
Review
An Tóramh – Echoes of Eternal Night
Kai
An Tóramh is the newest project with John Suffering. For those who don’t know him: John is an incredibly sympathetic...
Review
Wormphlegm – Tomb of the Ancient King
Kai
The short-lived project Wormphlegm has always been more than just the side-project of the Finnish funeral doom institution Tyranny. It...
Classic Revisited
Aphonic Threnody – A Silence too Old
Kai
Starting with the conclusion: A Silence Too Old is Aphonic Threnody’s best album since When Death Comes. Not that any...
Review
Torture Doom
Kai
Tortured screams from the catacombs of inquisitorial torture chambers, a dry, venomous riffing garnished with insane effects, samples from the...
Feature: Forms of Funeral Doom
Inframonolithium – Gods of Desolation
Kai
While Inframonolithium musically seemed to serve as a continuation of Beyond Black Void and/or The Ethereal, the conceptual content of...
Review
Abyssal – A Deep Sea Funeral
Kai
If anyone among you hasn’t yet realized that this band from Tijuana has been making impressive music for a long...
Review
Hallowed Butchery – Deathsongs from the Hymnal of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage
Kai
Review
Nortt – Dødssang
Kai
Review
Silent Deep Ocean – In Dark Eternity
Tycho
Review
Interview with Pantheïst
atheistpreacher
Pantheïst, a band deeply rooted in the Funeral Doom genre, is known for their atmospheric depth and emotive compositions. The...
Interview
Destruction Of Orion – Decreasing Brightness
Tycho
Review
Burial Fog – Last to Mourn
Kai
Review
Oakmord – End of a Dream
Kai
Looking back at 2024, it is surprising that Oakmord’s second album End of a Dream received so little attention within...