Suffering so you don't have to!
Metalcatto
I’m usually not reviewing old school bands like Cardinals Folly, but when you show up with an album named Let The Posers Fall!, the snob side of me gets curious and wonders if the music really honors the cocky attitude. It’s Finnish Doom, so it should deliver something I hoped for, but enough going around—let’s find out if the album honors the country’s long tradition in the genre.
Metalcatto
Oh, how happy it makes me to get another Soliloquium album. Ever since Contemplations, the project has captivated me with its deep and fresh approach to Death/Doom, and though I’ve encountered its latest work as a bit safe, the overall vibe is still one of consistency and love for the game—even if the music sounds like burying your recently deceased pet. Let’s go for it, then.
Pegah
British Doom Metal band Witchsorrow released their latest album via Church Road Records. Rooted primarily in classic old-school Doom Metal and enriched by melodic guitar solos, the album demonstrates a remarkable level of maturity and musicianship. Despite the relative youth of the band members, the record feels remarkably accomplished, evoking the atmosphere of Candlemass and Black Sabbath while retaining the band’s own creativity and distinctive touch.
Metalcatto
Today, I feel like trying something different. I’m going to expand on our latest IG post and see if that does any good. As a reviewer, you get to hear many hidden jewels that nobody cares about. Maybe because the algorithm isn’t pushing them down your throat on every reel or short. But I’m here to try to do some justice in this indifferent world.
Metalcatto
At this point, you know I like Doom, but I’m not Pegah, so my level of fanaticism is relatively sober. However, if there’s one Doom band that makes me feel like a cat on catnip, it’s Khemmis. Sure, the band still has yet to surpass its first two albums, but everything afterward has been nothing but quality. That’s why you’d expect Khemmis to be a display of the band’s experience and maturity, right? You know, these guys know the game. Or so I hope.
Pegah
Théogonie is the debut album by the French Doom Metal duo Aetere. Its title refers to Theogony, the epic poem attributed to Hesiod, recounting the origins of the Greek gods. Rooted in a Greek term meaning “the birth of the gods,” it serves as one of the foundational texts of Greek cosmology.
Metalcatto
When I think of Meuse Records, I think of sad puppy Death/Doom with clean production. However, Rigorous Sardonicus truly defies the stereotypes, because Diatriba Deorum is just nasty work that feels like it came out of Finland in 1993. I was surprised by the band’s obscene proposal, but that’s not all it had to offer. We need more than slow riffs to be truly impressed at this point, don’t you think?
Metalcatto
It’s almost summer here up north. It’s sunny, warm, and beautiful. What better way to ruin all of that than by listening to some soul-crushing and godless Death and Doom Metal from the pit? In Vespro is dropping this album named Where Silence Used To Sleep, which obviously isn’t going to be about riding into the sunset with all your friends and family singing happy songs. It’s going to make you go back to therapy—or that’s what I hope for. But you know how it is with the mellow stuff. Hit or miss.
Pegah
I had never thought that my ideology in life might have a name. Yet the truth is that each of us carries a personal worldview—one that inevitably finds expression in different aspects of life, including the art we create. Here, this personal ideology is reflected in Qroba (Vanishment), the latest album by the Georgian funeral doom band Ennui. Qroba is one of those albums that questions the very concept of existence. Even through its title, it suggests both disappearance and the possibility of never coming into being at all.
Metalcatto
How to say this? I’m a Draconian fanboy. I’ve been digging the band’s work since Where Lovers Mourn. Every album since has been a 4.0 out of 5.0 to me. In my book, no other Doom Metal band has been this consistent for so long. If anything, this is the band that truly got me into depressive music, which is why my expectations for In Somnolent Ruin are more than just huge—they’re absolutely ridiculous. But let’s get into it, alright?
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