Evoken – Mendacium

Artist: Evoken Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 I vividly remember my first brush with Evoken. It was late 2002, and my friends and I had called for the help of a local Doom Metal…

Pentacrostic – De Profundis [Re-Release]

Artist: Pentacrostic Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Pentacrostic’s debut album, ‘The Pain Tears’ from 1992, is generally regarded as the band’s finest hour – even a bit of a cult album in the…

Shadowdances – Burning Shadows [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Shadowdances Country: Lithuania Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Life can hit you right in the face in the most wonderful ways at unexpected moments. For me, in these times of war and general polarization, or just…

A Dead Poem – Abstract Existence

Artist: A Dead PoemCountry: BrazilLabel: Personal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 You can’t accuse the Brazillian band A Dead Poem of hiding their inspirations. And indeed, it was Marlon Combat’s aim all along when he formed the band in 2023 to create…

Excarnated Entity – Descended Immortality – Promo 2024

Artist: Excarnated Entity Country: USA Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With ‘Descended Immortality – Promo 2024’ the Portland, Oregon based Death Metal band Excarnated Entity is giving us a 2-track sneak peak into what they have…

Rotten Cavern – Profound [Demo]

Artist: Rotten Cavern Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Rotten Cavern is a new band from the Catalonia region of Spain, formed by a duo that is also found in the equally great Siegehammer. However, their…

Cryptal Echoes – Cryptal Echoes [Demo]

Artist: Cryptal Echoes Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 When thinking about Austrian Death Metal, the majority of us reading this will think of bands like Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Disastrous Murmur or perhaps Miasma. But recently…

On Thorns I Lay – On Thorns I Lay

Artist: On Thorns I Lay Country: Greece Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 The career of On Thorns I Lay is typified by the wanderings that led the band past a total of five albums and…

Asphodelus – Sculpting From Time

Artist: Asphodelus Country: Finland Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 It were those enchanting mid-90s when so many bands left their extremes to broaden their horizons, push musical boundaries and, to put it simply, shun the beaten…

Worm Altar – Astral Scourge [EP]

Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 Last year, one-man formation Worm Altar already delivered a very attractive piece of Doom/Death Metal with a self-titled demo. Although that particular genre has been troubled by…

Dark Millennium – Ashore The Celestial Burden [Reissue]

Artist: Dark MillenniumCountry: GermanyLabel: Floga RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2023 In the later years of the first Death Metal peak, say, the early 90’s there were bands that were pushing the boundaries of the genre. Into different directions, really. Of course, there…

Desolate Grave – Det Sista Steget

Artist: Desolate GraveCountry: SwedenLabel: Grind To Death RecordsFormats: Digital EPYear: 2022 Desolate Grave is the name of this solo-project by David “Pos” Mauritzon, who has also been in a few other bands, of which the oddly named Belarus Beaver, despite…

Kalmankantaja – Second Death

Artist: KalmankantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Misantropia RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2023 About four months have passed since the most recent Kalmankantaja album ‘Waiennut’ was released, and the Finnish band revolving around the creative mastermind Grim666 is back with another full-length. Despite numerous releases every…

Khazad-Dûm – Hymns From The Deep [Re-Release]

Artist: Khazad-Dûm Country: United Kingdom Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP Year: 2022 Deep down under the Misty Mountains lies an ancient kingdom of the dwarfs of Durin’s Folk, that kingdom is also known as Moria or Khazad-Dûm. That hidden and…

Morbid Stench – The Rotting Ways Of Doom

Artist: Morbid Stench Country: Costa Rica / El Salvador Label: Alkolik Holocaust Records / El Conjuro Records / Nuclear Winter Records / Putrid Cult Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Morbid Stench is a collaboration of musicians…

Morbid Stench – Opus Doom I [Compilation]

Artist: Morbid Stench Country: Costa Rica / El Salvador Label: Ablaze Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Just behind the release of Morbid Stench’s second full-length album, the band also comes out with this collector which features all the material they…

Assumption – Hadean Tides

Artist: AssumptionCountry: ItalyLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP, CDYear: 2022 The 2018 released album ‘Absconditus’ from the Italian Doom/Death Metal band Assumption was described by a VM-Underground colleague as Doom/Death effort that has a lot to offer and compared it to bands like diSEMBOWELMENT, Winter and…

Phlebotomized – Devoted To God [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Phlebotomized Country: The Netherlands Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2022 One of the most original bands that helped shape the ‘famous’ Dutch Death/Doom Metal scene was certainly Phlebotomized. With their 1992 ‘Devoted To God’-demo tape…

Phlebotomized – Pain, Resistance, Suffering [EP]

Artist: Phlebotomized Country: The Netherlands Label: Hammerheart Records / Petrichor Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2021 Being one of the bands that helped shape the Dutch underground metal scene, many eyes were on Phlebotomized after it was announced…

Anathema – A Vision Of A Dying Embrace [Reissue]

Artist: AnathemaCountry: UKLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 When Anathema embarked on their 1996 tour supporting their then new ‘The Silent Enigma’ record they were captured live in Krakow, Poland. That footage ended up at the VHS which was…

Worm Altar – Worm Altar / Demo ’22

Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2022 When I think of the state of Maine (USA), which I have never visited, my thoughts mainly consist of the imaginary and gloomy images I have acquired while…

Exhumation – Twilight Of The Funebre Night [Demo]

Artist: ExhumationCountry: SpainLabel: Pesta Negra RecordsFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2022 For many listening to a Funeral Doom Metal record is, and fair enough, a gruelling ride; it may even seem a form of self-flagellation. To fully grasp the painfully slow music,…

Disfallen – The Echoing Despair [Demo]

Artist: DisfallenCountry: NorwayLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: Digital demoYear: 2022 The genre of Doom/Death Metal has always been a bit of a niche in both the Death Metal and Doom Metal genres. It is not a genre that is played by many bands,…

Saturnus – Saturn In Ascension

Artist: Saturnus Country: Denmark Label: Cyclone Empire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2012 On that typical dooms pace these Danish veterans in melodic doom/death have been working on their fourth album. Over the years they have finally saw the recognition…

Funeral Moth – Funeral Moth [EP]

Artist: Funeral Moth Country: Japan Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Already released as a two-track demo-tape, this Japanese ultra-slow funeral doom act got its first official release with this two-tracks mini CD. Though Japan is not…

Inborn Suffering – Wordless Hope

Artist: Inborn Suffering Country: France Label: Sound Riot Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Bands like Inborn Suffering and albums like “Wordless Hope” gives me so much pleasure and hope for the future. They have been proving a lot to the…

Pantheïst – The Pains Of Sleep [EP]

Artist: Pantheïst Country: United Kingdom Label: Serpent’s Lair Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2005 Just after the release of the well received Amartia at the end of the summer of 2005 Pantheist returns with an EP with the well-fitting name…