Five albums from February 2026 that deserve your listening attention! I am a little late posting this (yeah, I know I said this for the January listing too, but I did also launch my YouTube channel recently), but here are my top 5 releases from February 2026. February featured a lot of great albums, and […]
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Hanging out with the distinguished professors of epic power doom! When I was in the process of deciding whether to attend Legions of Metal in Chicago this year, I went through the lineup, and there were a number of great bands that piqued my interest. However, one band I was unfamiliar with particularly caught my
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Diametric forces collide in a gothic death doom display of heft and beauty! Music is such a great vehicle for conveying a variety of emotions. The often present darker textures, particularly in the doomier genres, translate so well to themes of loss, sorrow, and melancholy, and events in my own life over the past year
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Doomy atmospheric post black and neo folk collide in trance-like beauty and brutality! I posted yesterday that I have been listening to more post metal, and lo and behold, here is two days in a row of reviews representing the genre. I also mentioned how broad the genre can be, and case in point, this
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Various flavors of heavy metal collide in Uster, Switzerland, for a fantastic early year Festival! Elements of Rock Festival took place March 13 – 15 at Stadthofsaal in Uster, Switzerland. It started in 2004 and has run annually since, with exception of a few years during COVID. I have only been once before, in 2007,
Five albums from January 2026 that deserve your listening attention! I am a little late posting this (something about launching my website and getting things ramped up), but here are my top 5 releases from January 2026. The reality is, January kicked off the year in splendid fashion. I reviewed 19 albums released during the
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An epic comeback resulting in seriously epic death doom! It seems like there has been a trend for a number of bands to release something new after a very long wait. Two notables last year were Ancient Bards and Crimson Shadows, and then Coroner beat them all with their first new album in 32 years.
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Exploring the grief of loss with gothic death doom melancholy! Losing someone you love sucks. It can weigh on you like a ton of bricks, suffocating in its pressure, some of the deepest and darkest melancholy one can feel. Many albums across genres have explored these themes, and one of my favorite metal albums from
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Black, death, doom, and more! One of my favorite things about going to shows is discovering new bands. I have never gone to a metal show fully blind (though this one was close!), but there have been plenty of shows I have attended where I was only really familiar with 1 or 2 out of
Ulthar & Nightfell at Baba Yaga in Seattle, WA, February 7, 2026 – Concert Review Read More »
Impressive power doom that is crushing and bombastic! I don’t often consume doom, but when I do, I prefer…. Wait, this isn’t a beer commercial, and “the most interesting man in the world” doesn’t strike me as a doom connoisseur. However, it is true that I don’t gravitate toward doom as much as other genres,
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