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 03-2021: Asphyx – Necroceros
Asphyx is from the days when slower death metal did not necessarily mean castrating all of its energy in favor of downtuned grooves. There was always something blunt and effective about Asphyx and that certainly is the case on ‘Necroceros’ as well. But at the same time, there are little…
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Album of the Week 02-2021: Alice In Chains – Dirt
You probably don’t need me to tell you that ‘Dirt’ is a masterpiece. And yet, that is what I will be doing in the next five hundred words or so. It will be an impossible task to find the words for how much I love this album, but if one…
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Album of the Week 50-2020: Ningen Isu – Mandoro
Ningen Isu has been around for over thirty years. But even in their native country of Japan, they did not really get the audience they deserved until a few years ago. In a way, I can understand their cult status. Their heavily Black Sabbath-inspired music is a bit of an…
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Album of the Week 20-2020: Triptykon with the Metropole Orkest – Requiem
No announcements, hardly any crowd noise, two thirds of the material never played before or since… Even live albums aren’t done in a conventional way by Triptykon. Of course, a conventional live album was never the set-up of ‘Requiem’. It combines the first and third acts of a requiem released…
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Album of the Week 18-2020: Morgana Lefay – The Secret Doctrine
Possibly topping my list of metal bands that never got the recognition they deserved because the nineties happened is Morgana Lefay. Being mislabelled is part of the problem, as the Swedes were always lumped in with their country’s power metal scene, which doesn’t do them any justice. Morgana Lefay’s music…
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Album of the Week 17-2020: My Dying Bride – The Ghost Of Orion
Another one of those releases that initially went by rather unnoticed because I was underwhelmed by its predecessor was the new My Dying Bride album ‘The Ghost Of Orion’. To me, ‘Feel The Misery’ felt a little too My Dying Bride by the numbers and featured one of Aaron Stainthorpe’s…
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Album of the Week 15-2020: Dool – Summerland
Three years ago, debut album ‘Here Now, There Then’ by the Rotterdam-based band Dool took me completely by surprise. While it’s not uncommon for dark rock bands to nail the atmosphere associated with the scene, Dool actually has the songwriting chops and the exquisitely arranged guitar tapestries to completely ditch…
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Album of the Week 11-2020: Onmyo-za – Hyakki-Ryoran
Only a year had passed between the releases of Onmyo-za’s debut album ‘Kikoku Tensho’ and sophomore record ‘Hyakki-Ryoran’, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the massive improvement the latter is over the former. Where the debut had promising, but largely underdeveloped material, ‘Hyakki-Ryoran’ features some of the best…
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Album of the Week 03-2020: Grave Pleasures – Motherblood
While I welcome the increasing influence of early eighties post-punk in rock music, many bands attempting the style try to stick to the genre’s conventions slightly too closely to really make an impact. Grave Pleasures is an exception to the rule and have been so since their inception as Beastmilk.…
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