Posts Tagged ‘doom’

Black Pyramid: New Songs Available For Streaming

Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

‘Stormbringer’, a brand new song from Northampton, Massachusetts, doom bringers Black Pyramid is available for streaming below (Myspace CD player). The track comes off Black Pyramid’s forthcoming single, Stormbringer, due out on Hydrophonic. The other track on the release, ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’, is available for streaming HERE, courtesy of The Obelisk.

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Album of the day: Place of Skulls – As a Dog Returns

Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Four years have passed since Place of Skulls released The Black is Never Far, their third album, which was in many ways the culmination of a tumult that brought the band many changes, highs and lows. Guitarist / vocalist Victor Griffin — best known for ...read more

Earthride: Kings Of Maryland Biker Doom Unleash New Record

Posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Long running Maryland biker doom masters Earthride recently unleashed their third full-length entitled Something Wicked. The nine-track offering was recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Kozlowski (Blue Cheer, Pentagram, Melvins, Trouble et al) at the Polar Bear Lair and features a guest appearances by Scott “Wino” Weinrich (Saint Vitus, Shrinebuilder, ...read more

Album of the day: Eibon – Entering Darkness

Posted on Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from MetalSucks: Look France, what did we do to deserve this? Was it the Freedom Fries thing? One of the guys behind that isn’t in office anymore, and most of us thought it was pretty dumb. Steve Martin in the Pink Panther reboot? We’re not proud of that, ...read more

Terrorizer: José’s band of the week – Lords of Bukkake

Posted on Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Find out why José Carlos Santos over at Terrorizer picked Lords Of Bukkake as band of the week: Pornogrind, right? Or, at the very least, brutal death metal with ladies hacked to bits and covered in, erm, blood on the censored version of the artwork.  Well, wrong.  Lords of Bukkake ...read more

Metal Ireland: In Conversation with Hour Of 13

Posted on Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Lorcan Archer of Metal Ireland recently conducted an interview with Hour of 13 about their first ever live show at the second installment of Dublin Doom Day, set for September 18th. An excerpt from the chat follows below. With tickets already being hoovered up by the Doom faithful, Metal Ireland ...read more

MetalKult: Notes From the Underground – NOCTUM

Posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Find out why Henry Yuan over at Metalkult picked Sweden’s Noctum for his Notes From the Underground:  Deep within the heavy metal underground, there exists a place where the old style of heavy blues-based doom rock is still practiced, where the hellish sounds of early Black Sabbath, Flower Travellin’ Band, ...read more

Album of the day: Church of Misery – Early Works (3LP)

Posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Praise for Church of Misery‘s Early Works compilation from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Yeah, it’s expensive, but wait til you get a load of this sludge doom monstrosity, a massive triple LP, in a super deluxe heavy sleeve, it weighs a ton, as it should, cuz this is one serious ...read more

Batillus Self Titled EP Available For Download

Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010

Batillus self titled EP was one of the best records of 2009 and we completely forgot to share this with you, our beloved Roadburn readers. Batillus , three tracks, 31 minutes, high-quality 320k MP3s, including hi-res artwork by lungful design is available for download HERE (source: BrooklynVegan). “[Batillus] understands that ...read more

Place of Skulls: More ‘As A Dog Returns’ Details Revealed; Trailer Available

Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010

Knoxville, Tennessee doom metallers Place of Skulls will release their long-awaited fourth full-length album, As A Dog Returns, in September. The follow-up to 2006′s The Black Is Never Far was recorded at Lakeside Studios in Knoxville by Travis Wyrick and founding guitarist / vocalist Victor Griffin (Pentagram, Death Row, Cathedral, ...read more