Doom Metal Reviews
Slow, dark, and incredibly heavy. If that’s how you like your metal, the releases covered in my doom metal Album of the Week reviews are very much worth checking out. With the caveat that the doom metal Kevy Metal covers tends to be of the traditional, epic or mildly progressive variety. The occasional detour into something altogether darker and more abstract certainly exists though. My doom metal reviews can be found right here. Overlaps with my heavy metal reviews inevitably exist, especially among traditional doom metal and epic doom metal.
While most of my doom metal reviews are listed here, I did not start properly tagging my reviews until a few years in. Searching by artist or release title using the search bar at the bottom of the page might bring up some reviews you cannot (yet) find by browsing this page.
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Album of the Week 51-2025: Stratuz – Osculum Pacis
Being one of the first extreme metal bands in Venezuela would have been enough to cement Stratuz’ legacy. A testament to their artistry is the fact that they kept evolving. Granted, there were nearly twenty-two years between ‘Osculum Pacis‘ and its direct predecessor ‘Spirit Seduction‘, and such a long time…
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Album of the Week 47-2025: Ningen Isu – Mahoroba
Like clockwork, Ningen Isu releases another album just over two years after their last one. For many bands, a release schedule like that would inevitably lead to running on auto-pilot after a while. But even though Ningen Isu has a sound that is immediately identifiable, the Japanese power trio somehow…
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Album of the Week 26-2025: Fer de Lance – Fires on the Mountainside
Out of all the epic heavy metal bands that rose to prominence in the last few years, Chicago’s Fer de Lance might just be the one with the broadest stylistic palette. There is a cinematic quality to their music beyond the theatricality of their peers, while relatively pronounced folky leanings…
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Album of the Week 23-2025: Professor Emeritus – A Land Long Gone
If there is one worldwide metal scene that has consistently been delivering the most interesting and well-rounded new releases lately, it would be the epic heavy and doom metal scene. Maybe it’s because this type of music just requires a certain deal of attention given to the compositions and arrangements,…
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Album of the Week 07-2025: Ereb Altor – Hälsingemörker
Most bands strongly influenced by Bathory circa ‘Hammerheart’ or ‘Twilight of the Gods’ don’t get around to developing their own style. Some might tweak things a bit – better vocals, either more or fewer extreme metal passages – but very few manage to actually turn the influence into something completely…
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Album of the Week 03-2025: Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead
‘Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead’ is the first Avatarium album that founder Leif Edling did not contribute to at all, and that is something I see as a good thing. Ever since singer Jennie-Ann Smith and guitarist Marcus Jidell took over the songwriting, Avatarium improved. It has…
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Best of 2024: The Albums
In all honesty, I was not prepared for 2024 to be a year with such a great number of amazing new releases. In a way, it was great timing professionalizing the website halfway through a year with this release schedule, though it would be a blatant lie to chalk that…
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Album of the Week 41-2024: Capilla Ardiente – Where Gods Live and Men Die
One of my most anticipated releases of the year, ‘Where Gods Live and Men Die’ does not disappoint. Capilla Ardiente is easily the most interesting doom metal band in the world these days, as they incorporate all the traits of the genre, but manage to put their own spin on…
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Album of the Week 34-2024: Vendel – Out in the Fields
Sometimes, applying a certain genre tag to a band doesn’t really do its sound any justice. Going by stylistic characteristics and influences alone, Vendel can be placed firmly within epic heavy/doom metal territory. And yet, they sound nothing like the Manilla Road, Manowar and Solitude Aeturnus wannabes that scene is…
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