REQUEST ARTICLE

Do you want to be heard?

Funeral Echoes exists to document the slow, the heavy, and the grief-laden. If your band dwells in these depths — funeral doom, death-doom, or the darkening edges of drone and ambient — and you seek a review or interview, you are welcome to reach out.

This form is currently undergoing maintenance. Please try again later.

READ MORE

Skepticism — Stormcrowfleet

Rusty

After Thergothon and a few proto-releases came the next big name in Funeral Doom- Skepticism. Similarly to Stream From the Heavens we...

Classic Revisited

Chalice of Suffering — The Raven Cries One Last Time

Gregory Ritchey

The realm of funeral doom is indeed a multi-layered macrocosm, with each band existing and thriving within its own panoply of sonic...

Review

Horror and Lovecraft in Funeral Doom

Kai

In his book In the Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker starts from the thesis that “horror represents a non-philosophical...

Feature

MurkRat – Drudging the Mire

Kai

The despair surrounding the question of who we actually are within a posthuman technocracy—embedded in the collective of a catastrophic...

Review

Esoteric – The Pernicious Enigma

Kai

The relevance of Esoteric did not end with their debut. With The Pernicious Enigma, the serpentine descent continued further downward...

Classic Revisited

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...

Classic Revisited

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