death doom metal

Wharflurch's Hallucinatory Horror Lurks in the "Psychedelic Realms Ov Hell" (Early Album Stream)

Stream the full-length debut of this Floridian death/doom outfit, which takes the genre to its trippy extremes.

Ruin Leaves Us "At One with the Earth and Worms" (Early Track + Video Stream)

Stream a new single from these vicious, yet cunning, Californian death metal marauders, set to release their third full-length “Spread Plague Death” in a few weeks.

TEETH Imagines "Dreamless Hieroglyphs" On New Single (Early Track Debut)

The California horrific death/doom metal quartet meditates on inevitability and the horrors of the end of the world on their new album, titled “Finite.” Listen to an advance stream of “Dreamless Hieroglyphs.”

Thorn Summons the Void Through "Crawling Worship" (Early Album Stream)

This especially piercing form of cavernous death-doom evokes visions of stark nothingness and unsightly terrors from beyond—stream the band’s debut album now in full.

Hooded Menace's Piercing Death-Doom Rings "The Tritonus Bell" (Interview with Lasse Pyykkö)

The Finnish death/doom band’s upcoming sixth album features heightened heavy metal influence and a particularly lethal rendition of their iconic sound—read an interview with founding member Lasse Pyykkö.

Coffin Lurker Leaves Music "Foul and Defiled" (Full Album Stream) (mems. Cryptae, Gnaw Their Tongues)

Two pillars of the Dutch heavy underground dissect death/doom metal to its primal elements.

Mostly Yelling #7: Thorn's Debut EP Compresses Death-Doom Into Devastating Brevity

While not normally a genre that trims its song lengths, Arizona death/doom outfit Thorn shows off the bite-size potential of the genre on their debut EP “The Encompassing Nothing.”

The Brain-Erasing Legacy of Autopsy's Mental Funeral (Retrospective + Interview with Chris Reifert)

Autopsy’s second full-length, released thirty years ago today, further refined the band’s grotesque take on death/doom and cemented their pioneering status. Take a look back at what made it a grisly delight, plus read an interview with Chris Reifert about “Mental Funeral.”

Records of the Week With Jon and Ted #5

This time around, Editors in Chief Jon and Ted look at two distant ends of the metal spectrum: Lucifer Was’ classic heavy rock and Saturnus’ despondent doom metal.

"Gothic": Paradise Lost and the Dawn of a Death/Doom Classic

We reflect on Paradise Lost’s sophomore album “Gothic,” which ushered in a new sound for death and doom metal, one that’s still triumphantly relevant 30 years later.
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