drone

The Colorado drummer is fully immersed in the world of speedrunning video games for a good cause.

Hear Swiss black metal mavens Rorcal rise ’n’ slay on their new single, “Early Mourning.”

For Decibel’s latest cover star, doom and gloom can sometimes give way to fun and games.

We have only 200 copies of Khanate‘s surprise new album, To Be Cruel, on exclusive Black and White Insomnia vinyl!

Hear experimental occult drone/doom collective Pylar, featuring members of Orthodox and Teitanblood, unleash a haunting new sonic hellscape.

Listen to the debut full-length by Ottawa-based post-metal/drone doom duo, They Grieve!

Dark ambient project Satanath deconstructs post-metal in the ten-year anniversary reissue of their album Metallized Arena.

This week’s Demo:listen falls beneath the lead shadow of Minneapolis black/death three-piece Worn Mantle.

Hear An Evening Redness conjure up a desert-dwelling American soundscape that fuses the best elements of drone into a soaring masterpiece.

Watch the first video and single from Sum of R‘s harrowingly heavy and delicately beautiful new LP Lahbryce.

The Exit Bags set a depressing mood with new song “Shingles.”

Soul-crushing drone-doom unit Body Void return with demoralizing new single, “Wound.”

Heavy metal short film Landgraves conjures suspense from snowstorms and blackened doom. Watch this festival standout now.

Pacific Northwest doom-folk collective Geist & the Sacred Ensemble share the meditative, ominous video of “Closed Eye” from their upcoming LP, Waning Hymns.

Manchester doom artisans Atavist are back to disrupt a decade of silence with their cathartic ode to loss and resilience, III: Absolution.

Folian prepare to “Go Alone” and find healing.

Echtra summons a haunting, lonely atmosphere on “BardO I.”

They Grieve unleash depressed drone doom with new video for “All That a Body Can Suffer.”

Hear the new album from Thou.

Amarok are well on their way to becoming masters of sprawling, droning doom if the first single from Devoured is any indication.

Stream the droning, pained new album from Formalist.

Dark, depressing and slow, Pissboiler‘s new album is a powerful release.

Stream a new offering from anonymous post-metal cult B R I Q U E V I L L E now!

“‘Don’t Walk These Streets’ was really written as a reaction to feeling absolutely alienated and set adrift in the surreal manifestation of the American Dream that is L.A,” Kevin Martin says. “It’s a smacked out jazz, fuzzed up trip, into a social void, that I wrote after realizing there is zero safety net in the States for anyone that falls off the gravy train. And as a pedestrian walking a lot around the city in my stay during the recording of Concrete Desert, I attempted to conjure the feeling of sheer dread that I felt wandering across the Hollyweird landscape.”

Gridfailure reveals the secrets of a “Hostile Alchemist” on the first part of their upcoming EP.

What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10

Soft Tissue, the collaborative album between Lament Cityscape and Theologian, aims to combine the best elements of both bands. “Inevitability” is the first taste of that collaboration.

“Trans-apocalyptic” psych droners Darsombra are about to hit you up with some seriously weird , perception-expanding atmospherics when the band drops Polyvision — its first album in four years — on September 9 via Translation Loss just six days ahead of a sure-to-be-memorable appearance at Shadow Woods Metal Fest.

Melk En Honing
Drinking and driven
dB Rating: 8/10

Last year we featured a German drone/doom project called The Cold View, who had, at that point, recorded a five-song suite called Weeping Winter that could successfully leech all heat-potential from a newborn star and leave behind only frozen dust and brittle ash. Luckily for anyone still able to feel positive emotion after listening to Weeping Winter,…