Year: 2025Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions Death/doom is a wide spectrum, ranging from Winter’s crust/hardcore influenced lurching heaviness, to Coffins’ Hellhammer-style boneheaded heaviness, to beyond. In the larger spectrum, an odd sort of outlier is the romantic, gothic style of death/doom … Continue reading SOLUS REX: Scenes From Yonder Life
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Sludge/doom metal with drone and dark ambient elements.” What kind of music does that make you think of? Me, I think of some kind of minimalistic, raw, borderline funeral doom experimentalism. Something that reeks of nightmares, terrors … Continue reading NOCHE OSCURA: Gardens
KAUNIS KUOLEMATON: Mielenvalta Release year: 2023Label: Noble Demon I’ll level with ya. The style Finnish Kaunis Kuolematon represents – melodic extreme metal with doom elements and clean vocals aplenty – isn’t my cup of tea. In fact, it’s the kind … Continue reading Beautiful undying
CARDINALS FOLLY: Live By The Sword Release year: 2023Label: Soulseller Records A good name is a good name, right? And Live By The Sword is a good name. When Count Karnstein, band leader, vocalist and bass player of Finnish true … Continue reading Of doom, folly and life by the sword
WHALESONG: Leaving A Dream Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum/Old Temple Talk about a massive album. Polish Whalesong‘s newest, third full length album spans two discs and consists in total of two hours and ten minutes of music. That’d be a lot … Continue reading Leaving dreams
PHANTASMAL: Ansaan syntyneet – Ansaan kuolleet Release year: 2019Label: self-released During the noughties, there evolved in Finland a somehow quite distinct form of extreme metal which was neither black, death nor doom, but instead a weird amalgamation of all of … Continue reading Phantasmal trappings
LÄHDÖN AIKA: Alku Release year: 2019Label: self-released There’s a definite hardcore element to Finnish Lähdön Aika’s sound, despite them often being labelled as doom metal or sludge. In fact, I think there’s more hardcore than either of the two aforementioned … Continue reading No serenity for Lähdön Aika
Only Death Is Real 