blackened doom

France-based blackened doom industrialists Wolok punish all in their wake with new album, The Bilious Hues Of Gloom. Streaming now!

Germany’s Praise the Plague is here with a new song and video filled with doom metal power and black metal gloom.

The Ruins Of Beverast mastermind Alexander von Meilenwald provides a mystical, mysterious GPS to latest album, The Thule Grimoires.

Polish black metallers Nekkrofukk summon the goat-demon on new doomy track “Devil’s Blood Injekktion.” Death and destruction streaming only at Decibel!

Stream the new release from the not-actually-Pokemon-themed black/doom band Snorlax now.

Stream the new album from Russian ambient black/doom project In Tenebriz.

Stream a dark new song from blackened doombringers Abstracter now.

One-man black metal outfit Merciless Savage unleash an invigorating form of black metal that expands the genre while honoring its roots.

Stream a new Eye of Nix song now!

Stream the new album from experimental doom outfit Dead Woman’s Ditch.

Watch Withered‘s performance from Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.

Consisting of members from both Wake and Seminary, easily two of Canada’s best grind bands, you may be skeptical about this turn towards “Blackened doom.” But their five-song debut goes way beyond what anyone is expecting. 

Live in Torment is Withered‘s first live recording and the first release on guitarist/vocalist Mike Thompson’s Atlanta Grind Productions. Watch the trailer now! 

Italian blackened doom merchants Naga formed in the shadows of Mount Vesuvius — the volcano which infamously laid waste to Pompeii — and the influence of that environment are all over the band’s magisterial new full-length Inanimate, a brilliant eruption of oppressive, brutal, dark, unrelenting, implacable sounds and atmospherics.

Soothsayer continues to hone their hulking doom metal on “Of Locust And Moths.”

This August, Portland-based multi-instrumentalist A.L.N. will bring his one-man black/doom metal project, Mizmor, to the stage for the very first time at Migration Fest in Olympia, Washington. We caught up with A.L.N. to talk about the process of transitioning Mizmor into a live band, the challenges that come with creating music by yourself and the finer points of rehearsal room tomfoolery.

A sneak peek heads-up for the upcoming full-length of hypnotic, unhinging blackened doom from Head of the Demon. 

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