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The Best Extreme Doom Metal Album
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Ahab move further south in their voyage into post metal waters in their third release The Giant. No less densely composed than previous offerings, Ahab's doom, while leaving behind some of its funeral immensity, is now awash with fresh waves as they attempt to chart the unfamiliar and unforgiving icy post metal seas.
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Released near the end of February, Alkerdeel was one of the first bands to create some of the most mesmerizing and extreme music of the past year. With an album like Morinde as their (and your!) latest weapon, few foes are to be feared. You'll see yourself surrounded by an ever-present and pulsing bass, intense riffs, hypnotic drums and maniacal vocals. Morinde is doom, sludge and black blended beyond distinction. This sick and filthy journey is certainly not for the faint of heart.
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| The highly prolific UK-based drone outfit Bong have graced us yet again with a pertinent follow up to the psychedelic soundscape of 2011's exceptional Beyond Ancient Space and furthered even more the sitar-drenched catharsis it presented so very well. This time round the ominousness is replaced with a sense of gentle serenity. Mind and sense expanding stuff. |
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| This is unquestionable one of the most massive sounding records released this year, nay any year. Blood Geometry is the sound of continents shifting, of planets colliding. Blackly layered funeral doom of epic and monumental proportions, this is surprisingly poignant considering the scale of the record. |
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To say that Atra Mors is impressive is an understatement. The vastness of sound and sense of hopelessness contained in this album is as devastating as you can get. The haunting atmosphere is just one of the worlds it presents with many memorable melodies. The cavernous growls and spoken words of John Paradiso make you enter the dark corners of doom and there is no way out of the blackness, which slowly eats away with its density and disorienting nature. But this long and torturing journey will be so rewarding that you can't wait to face it again.
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Combine the darkest, most oppressive elements of doom with the blackened hateful rancorous rasps and hellish psychedelia and you have a truly overwhelming album which sets the sky ablaze.
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This album has been six years in the making, and it would appear Indesinence have spent every minute of that time putting their blood, sweat & tears into perfecting this immense death/doom opus. This is haunting monumental doom that is infused with gritty death metal & has a varied tempo with a vast array of sound and texture that will have you captivated from first note to last, and leave you wanting more.
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Like fellow Frenchmen Blut Aus Nord, Monolithe lovers were lucky enough to get their hands on two of their releases in 2013. The EP released in January however marked an approach quite different from the band's usual funeral doom meanderings. Two thoroughly unique tracks of industrialised and droning constructions that frankly defy all musical categorisation. One thing is certain though: it's utterly brilliant.
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Another Monolithe entry, another astral journey to the infinities of space that lives up to the name of the band. Though this time it's in a more traditional funeral doom form, which means the soundscapes are more crushing, and the immeasurable atmosphere is equally enveloping.
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A Key To Panngrieb is really well crafted, from song arrangements to sound. Narrow House almost effortlessly succeed in conveying the wide ranges of doom, from fragile beauty to crushing loss to abject horror. A crushing doom platter paired with a side of black and a nice ambient sauce drizzled over the top.
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