Lycus - Tempest (2013)

Epic, mournful funeral doom. Happy holidays and may the new decade bring us more doom.

and may our planet be more peaceful

מזמור (Mizmor) - Yodh (2016)

A blackened doom metal behemoth. Mizmor is a one-man project executed by the drummer of Hell (US sludge/doom). I love how representative the artwork is of the music. Heavy, gloomy, MASSIVE. This is shared in high anticipation for the upcoming record.

To be human is to hurt 

Pain, a condition for life

Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer (1992)

I was surprised to see relatively a lot of traffic going through this page since I hadn't come on here or posted anything since last year, so I thought I'd get back to sharing some more music on here. Going with this one today. Nothing too obscure but been binging a lot of Sabbath and have been coming to the realization that this is my favourite Dio-era Sabbath record. Heavy, doomy, dark and a lot of badass tracks. Praise Iommi. RIP Dio.

There's another side of heaven
This way, to technical paradise

Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction (1991)

Colossal crushing drones from pioneers Earth. This EP features the prolific Joe Preston on bass and drums, Dave Harwell on another bass, and of course Dylan Carlson on guitar and magick. Get absorbed, if you're ready.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

Boris - Feedbacker (2003)

One of eclectics Boris' best outputs. Self-descriptive Feedbacker (aka Boris at Last) is a 42-minute journey divided into 5 parts. Beautifully flowed album with a lot to hear in. There's mandatory crushing drones and slow riffery, psychedelic-tinged doom, noise and occasional vocal and stoner work. Given the guitar tones of this album, this is some shit to get lost in.

Crisis leaves beautiful remains 
Yesterday appeared in a dream 
Touched the dazzling omen

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)

Holy shit, what can I say about this? In 2006 Cult of Luna released this monumental post-metal/atmospheric sludge metal album. This might very well be my favourite post-metal album, let alone being among the best metal albums of all time in my book. It's the kind of album that when I feel like listening to a particular song off it, I can't help but continue all of it, though I usually always start it from the start. A deep, self-contemplative emotional trip parallel to a religious experience which I highly recommend to everyone to experience, whether you like metal or not.

I was spoiled enough to witness them resurrect this masterpiece to life at Roadburn 2016. It was the very first band at the four-day festival - after finishing the set, I was so shaken, and thinking "Now what? I could go home happy now." It was life-shattering to say the least.

According to guitarist Erik Olofsson, SATH is about "Male loneliness - I was very inspired by a book by J.M. Coetzee [Life & Times of Michael K] about a man in South Africa with a hare lip. [The character] escapes from everything and lives off the earth eating only pumpkings. Johannes Persson [guitar, vocals, lyrics] had similar ideas for the lyrics about loneliness, it has a countryside vibe to it." The latter is further highlighted by banjo in some moments. If you missed it in the first paragraph, I highly recommend this.

Let me dream if only for tonight, that we leave together in the first morning light. 
 Alone and forgotten. I bow my head in shame. 
 Before you all answers reveal. So I sink my sorrows in the sea.

Pilgrim - II: Void Worship (2014)

Sad news, sad day. Jon 'The Wizard' Rossi - guitarist, singer and songwriter of Pilgrim - died and this totally sucks. He died at 26 (didn't even make it to the 27 club). For this, I'm listening to Pilgrim today in memory, and sharing a DLable for their latest/last album, which in my opinion was one of the best albums to be released in 2014.

Pilgrim is a young doom metal band that plays in the style of the mighty Reverend Bizarre, and they do it well. They've only been around since 2010/2011, and I've always wished for more material from these guys. A successor contender for the Reverend Bizarre, but with their own twist to the sound. This would also appeal to fans of Hammers of Misfortune.

Rest in Power Jon Rossi, your doom will live on.

Apr 1991 - Oct 2017

Was the master real or was he a dream?

Sunn O))) - Agharti Live 09-10 (2011)

Hallucinatory live take on Sunn O)))'s Monoliths and Dimensions. It works as a different album though, it's not a copycat. Accompanied by voidfucking vocals of Attila Csihar, Aghartha is broken into two tracks. The first half is sweet droning drones, the second one features some of Attila's best recorded moments. Hunting and Gathering (here H&G Foraging) is crushingly heavy, and of course it's played slower! If you like Monoliths and Dimensions, drone or you are an admirer of adventurous vocals, you should listen to this.

Where tunnels open into the great nothing and the giant spaces that rent gravity unto the depths of the earth. Alight becomes the riddle of the labyrinth where the channels of the junction reform the ethos and forget everything