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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
Quercus – Verferum
Kai
Verferum by Quercus presents itself as a haunting and unusually sacral interpretation of funeral doom: within extremely slow, heavy compositions,...
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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
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)...
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Funeralium – Funeralium
Kai
Funeralium began as a collaboration between the groups Ataraxie and Heol Telwen. Over time, the band established itself as a...
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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:...
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Mesmur – S
Kai
With S, Mesmur release an album that goes far beyond conventional genre boundaries. On the levels of sound, concept, and...
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Lone Wanderer – Exequiae
Kai
With Exequiae, Lone Wanderer release their third album, continuing their Schopenhauerian approach to Funeral Doom. Breathy, reverberating growls, spoken passages,...
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Begräbnis – Izanaena
Kai
As a pubescent dumpling with shitty puberty problems and an ass full of nothing in my pocket, I had a...
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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...
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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,...
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Vofa – Vofa
Kai
Here we have a majestic work of sonic sorcery – a cross-referenced requiem resounding from the well-filled trough of downfall....
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Evoken – Mendacium
Kai
With Mendacium, Evoken not only reopen the gates to a soundscape in which time, space, and consciousness themselves begin to...
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Decemberance – Implosion
Kai
To begin with, Decemberance must be recognized as an institution of Greek Extreme Doom.The current album reads like a biblically...
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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
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
Nortt – Dødssang
Kai
Review
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...