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 07-2017: Dool – Here Now, There Then
‘Listen Without Prejudice’ may have been the meaningful title of George Michael’s second solo album, in some reversed kind of way, the phrase also applies to Dool’s debut album ‘Here Now, There Then’. Singer and guitarist Ryanne van Dorst will be known to most Dutch music fan for the punky…
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Album of the Week 49-2016: Iommi – Fused
Combine the talents of heavy metal’s original riff master and the most soulful singer Deep Purple has ever had and ‘Fused’ is what you get. Even though the band carries the last name of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, the album seems to be a perfect collaboration between him and…
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Album of the Week 30-2016: Candlemass – Tales Of Creation
Back when I was a young teenager, my opinion was that Heavy Metal should be fast. Candlemass – not even Black Sabbath – was the band that single-handedly turned me around. Their combination of massive guitar riffs and powerful vocals – in fact, current singer Mats Levén is the sixth…
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Album of the Week 43-2014: While Heaven Wept – Suspended At Aphelion
Ambition isn’t a thing that eludes Tom Phillips. From their humble beginnings as an old school Doom Metal trio, While Heaven Wept evolved into a seven-piece that – while still relatively subdued in terms of tempo – combines influences from many subgenres into a unique, majestic form of Heavy Metal.…
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Album of the Week 15-2014: Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
Celtic Frost’s swansong ‘Monotheist’ and Triptykon’s ‘Eparistera Daimones’ were simply works of art. Dark, bleak, twisted and ominous art, but art all the same. And as I loved that dark, doom-laden and unique approach, ‘Melana Chasmata’ was a work to look forward to. And as such, it didn’t disappoint. While Thomas Gabriel…
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Album of the Week 09-2014: While Heaven Wept – Vast Oceans Lachrymose
Originally a Doom Metal band, While Heaven Wept evolved into a powerful, epic Heavy Metal band with a slightly progressive touch in recent years. Though ‘Vast Oceans Lachrymose’ had a bumpy road – not one, but two record labels that went out of business – in order to get released, when it…
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