Doom Metal News
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SON OF BOAR Date The Hand That Reigns for 20 November
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Five years after the debut, and written through a stretch the band say was hard for all five of them at once. The new song comes out first.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
KALI JUGA Fill an Hour With Eight Songs on Their Second Album
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Formed last year, unsigned, and already two albums deep. The new one holds eight songs in just under an hour, three of them past nine minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Join Four Italian Bands for the First Doom Over Naples
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
A single night, five bands, a published running order down to the quarter hour, and eighteen euro to get in before the fee. It starts on Sunday.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 31, 2026
SIDEWALK MAFIA Sign to Octopus Rising and Skip the Next Album
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
A band with two albums behind them sign a deal and announce they will not be making a third one yet. Two songs are coming instead, one at a time.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
DANTALION Name Their Tenth Album After Themselves, Twenty Years In
Death Metal Doom Metal
A band usually uses its own name on the first record. Dantalion have waited until the tenth, two decades after the demo that started them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi Calls the Dio Comparison Unfair
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Jorn Lande has carried the Dio comparison for twenty years. The man who hired him says the comparison misses what he was actually listening for.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
DAWN OF SOLACE Put More Growling Into Skeletons, Out in February
Death Metal Doom Metal
Ten tracks for 12 February, and the quiet half of Tuomas Saukkonen's output is getting heavier rather than softer with age.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026
HAXMASTAREN Open Skuggor del 1 in Full, Three Days Early
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Three tracks from the Gothenburg band, their first release in five years, with a title that promises at least one more part.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026
DREAD WITCH Put Cult Out Tomorrow, Four Years After Forming in Aarhus
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Eight songs of Danish doom, a guest vocal on the one everybody heard first, and a band that has moved quickly for the genre it chose.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026
GREEN LUNG Give Away an Animated Ozymandias for Halloween
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Richard Wells drew it, Joseph Brett animated it, and Shelley wrote the words two hundred years before anyone needed them this badly.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 29, 2026
LASER DRACUL Name Their Second Album After an Old Swedish Word for the Devil
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eleven years in the Swedish underground, a second album out tomorrow, and a title taken from the folklore of the band's own province.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 29, 2026
CIRITH UNGOL Release All the Shadows Tomorrow, Fifty Five Years In
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Eight tracks through No Remorse, the longest of them seven and a quarter minutes, from a band that formed in Ventura in 1971.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Last Night at Villa Park Comes Home on 11 December
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Blu-ray, CD and vinyl on 11 December, a box set in April with all thirty five performances, and Mr. Crowley released ahead of it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 28, 2026
NOOTHGRUSH Put Their Whole of 1996 on One Disc, Two Hundred Copies of It
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Four vinyl releases from the last four months of 1996, a radio set that circulated on dubbed cassettes, and a live track reaching CD for the first time.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
Jorn Lande Made Demos With Tony Iommi Twenty Years Before BLACK SABBATH's Guitarist Called Again
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The singer says he travelled to work with Iommi during the writing of Fused, and the job went to Glenn Hughes instead.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 28, 2026
FUNERALIUM Finish a Fifth Album and Put It in Early 2027
Doom Metal
Six years after Decrepit, the Paris funeral doom band have the recording done and nothing else announced: no title, no date beyond a season.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
SOLYSTALGIA Film Funeral Four Months After the Album It Sits On
Death Metal Doom Metal
A band a year old with one record to their name put a video to the slowest thing on it, through a label that specialises in exactly that.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
EXTERMINATION DAY Date Forty Miles of Bad Road and Send Out Fill the Swamp
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The album lands on 27 November through Argonauta, and the second song off it is aimed squarely at a sitting cabinet member.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026