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DOMKRAFT Made 'Night Songs' Around a Guitarist's Year of Surgery
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
'Eclipse (Outlast the Night)' is the airiest thing they have written, and it comes off a record shaped by Martin Widholm's medical crisis. Out 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
TEMPLE OF VOID and Outer Heaven Share a Split on Relapse, Out 16 October
Death Metal Doom Metal
Two American bands, one record, and a label that has been putting out this kind of thing since before either of them existed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
USURPATOR Put Their Second Album on Bandcamp Without Waiting for Anyone
Doom Metal Black Metal
'Litany of Blood and Steel' follows 'Atonement' from 2022. The Vienna band play black and doom metal and have released it themselves.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
MNRK Buy the Whole BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Catalogue, Zakk Wylde's Solo Records Included
Doom Metal Groove Metal
Eleven studio albums, the live releases and the EPs change hands. The price was not disclosed, and the label had already been distributing the band for years.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
KONVENT Put Black Metal Into the Death Doom on 'Firesky', Out 6 November
Death Metal Doom Metal
Five songs, longer than anything the Danish four piece have written before, on Napalm Records. The opening track is out with the announcement.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
CANDLEMASS Played London Without Johan Längqvist, Who Was Taken to Hospital Before the Show
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Felipe Plaza Kutzbach sang most of it at short notice, with Aaron Stainthorpe and Tony Dolan taking parts. The band say they still do not know much about their singer's condition.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 15, 2026
BOCC Put Out 'Demolarium', a First Album Seven Years in the Making
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Barcelona death doom band have released their debut full-length through Night Terrors Records and partners, after two demos, two EPs and a handful of singles.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ABYSSIC Sign to Soulseller for 'Trollsyn', Their Fourth Album, Due Early 2027
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Norwegian symphonic doom and death band have a new label and a record behind it. They formed in 1997 and have released three albums since 2016.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026
MOTHER OF GRAVES Release 'The Silent Weight of the Stars' From an Album Due 16 October
Death Metal Doom Metal
The second single from 'The Light That Keeps Us', with a video by David Jaggar. It is the Indianapolis band's third album and their first as a five piece on Profound Lore.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
MAISON DIEU Open Their Debut Album With 'Dio Ci Vuole Nudi', a Song That Starts on a Tagelharpa
Doom Metal
The trio from Ancona put out the first single from 'Citta Nascosta', which Octopus Rising and Argonauta release on 23 October, eleven years after the band formed and one after their first EP.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
EPITAPHE Release 'III', Five Songs and Fifty Four Minutes on Aesthetic Death
Death Metal Doom Metal
The French band's third album keeps the saxophone and the acoustic passages, and was mastered by Greg Chandler of Esoteric.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
GREEN LUNG Release 'Necropolitan', Named After London's Seven Victorian Garden Cemeteries
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The fourth album is out through Nuclear Blast, with an animated visualiser for 'Dance to the Grave' and a December tour with High On Fire.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
STONED JESUS Share 'Jackal' From 'Songs to Moon', the Second Part of Their Trilogy
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The Kyiv band's new album is out on 16 October via Season of Mist. The label calls 'Jackal' the proggiest song on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
KONVENT Need Only Five Songs for 'Firesky', and They Are Longer Than Anything They Have Done
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Danish band's third album arrives 6 November on Napalm Records, with black metal worked into the death doom. Opening track 'Exorcise' is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
EPITAPHE Stream 'III' in Full, Three Days Before Release
Death Metal Doom Metal
The French trio's third album runs to five tracks, two of them past fourteen minutes, with saxophone again threaded through the death metal. Out 11 September on Aesthetic Death.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
Kenny Hickey Wrote SILVERTOMB's New Song Believing He Was Close to Death
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
'Graves In The Sky' ends a seven-year silence for the band built from former Type O Negative and Danzig members. The album arrives 13 November on SPV.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
Rebecca Vernon Wrote 'Devotion' in a Closed Ski Resort and a Retirement Community
Doom Metal
The Keening's second album is out 16 October on Relapse, dedicated to her father, who died in May 2025. There is a dragonfly on the cover for him.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
WHORES. Drops 'Sicko' Ahead of 'War' Album Launch
Doom Metal Hardcore
WHORES. releases 'Sicko', the third single from their forthcoming album 'War', set for April 12. Plus, details on their U.S. tour.
Feb 24, 2026