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Inframonolithium – Gods of Desolation
Kai
The Monolith While Inframonolithium musically seemed to serve as a continuation of Beyond Black Void and/or The Ethereal, the conceptual...
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
Funeral Echoes presents a brand new review by Kai. With Deathsongs from the Hymnal of the Church of the Final...
Review
Nortt – Dødssang
Kai
Danish project Nortt emerges once again, almost from nothing, into the center of the postmodern market. It is not that...
Review
Silent Deep Ocean – In Dark Eternity
Tycho
Silent Deep Ocean’s In Dark Eternity is a masterclass in contrasts, seamlessly weaving genre-atypical elements like bamboo flute and hurdy-gurdy...
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
Destruction Of Orion is a project from Sofia, Bulgaria, by sole member Orion, or Tehina Spasova as is her real...
Review
Burial Fog – Last to Mourn
Kai
Last to Mourn by Burial Fog oscillates between violent fantasies and the metaphorical loss of sunlight, describing the kind of...
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...
Review
Drown – Subaqueous
Tycho
Subaqueous, by funeral doom metal band Drown, is a hauntingly immersive and emotionally rich album. It presents a scenario where...
Review
Doomslut – Black Ash
Gregory Ritchey
In Black Ash, Doomslut delivers a sonic funeral for humanity, drenched in despair and unrelenting heaviness. The album, a masterpiece...
Review
Föhn – Condescending
Tycho
Many of the genre-adjacent adjectives do not apply to "Condescending" in the way they do to other albums. For example,...
Review
Sektarism – Le Son des Stigmates
Kai
Sektarism, a band that embraces self-inflicted pain and the rejection of all morality as central elements of spiritual transfiguration, focuses...
Review
The Cold View – Wounds
Kai
The German one-man project, The Cold View, led by Andreas Schmidt, deeply resonated with me years ago in the realm...
Review
Pantheïst – The Pains of Sleep
atheistpreacher
Here is a band that needs no introduction, so I'll get straight to the point. Pantheïst’s The Pains of Sleep...
Review
The Nihilistic Front – The Four Seasons In Misery
Kai
The Nihilistic Front lock themselves in a dark, loud, and often stiflingly hot room to play themselves into a kind...
Review
Paradise Lost – Gothic
Gregory Ritchey
It is fascinating to trace the archæ of what you might call sonogenesis—the birth of a genre. Most texts will...
Review
Dauðaró – Ylur
Justin "Witty City" Wittenmeier
The one-man Iceland-based funeral doom band Dauðaró returns with another incredible release. "Ylur" is one 47-minute-long song that unfolds in...
Review
Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
Tycho
The story of Mirror Reaper is one of real-life tragedy, as during its writing process, former Bell Witch drummer and...
Review
Aeternum Sacris – 2011.03.11
Kai
This one-man project from Kawasaki (between Tokyo and Yokohama) creates a mournfully sorrowful funeral doom characterized by dense and emotionally...
Review
Until Death Overtakes Me – Diagenesis
Kai
At the beginning of December 2024, Until Death Overtakes Me released their long-awaited and carefully crafted new album. A piece...
Review
Dauðaró – Funeral Doom From Another Dimension
Kostas Panagiotou
Dauðaró takes you to different planets altogether. Cold, desolate and uninhabitable planets, I must add. Funeral doom that finds you...
Review
The Howling Void – The Triumph Of Ruin
Tycho
Hailing from San Antonio, Texas, The Howling Void is a solo project of prolific multi-instrumentalist Ryan Wilson, with The Triumph...
Review
Ceremonic Buryment – As We Weep Over Life
Kai
Ceremonic Buryment never reinvent Funeral Doom musically or lyrically at any point in their work, even if their goal was...