EP Review: Vale of Amonition – Ancient, Evil & African
Vale of Amonition just might be the most bizarre metal project that I have ever come across. Based in Uganda, the duo’s style could be...
Tag : funeral doom
Album Review: Dead Sacraments – Celestial Throne
Dead Sacraments’ approach to doom metal reminds me of a cross between Destroyer of Light and Thronehammer. The Illinois group’s full-length debut Celestial Throne sees...
Beneath the Vault #16: Riff With Me If You Want to Live
Welcome to Beneath the Vault, a column in which we take a brief look at the many review requests we get from bands that aren’t...
Album Stream: Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light
A little over a month after the release of their split with fellow Aussies Promethean Misery, New South Wales-based masters of all things down-tuned and...
Album Review: Ossuarium – Living Tomb
The musical equivalent of getting chocolate in your peanut butter, death/doom melds the bellowed growls of death metal, the brutally sauntering gait of doom metal,...
Album Review: Obed Marsh – Dunwich
H.P. Lovecraft could fill the pages of the volumed encyclopedias people once sold door-to-door with the amount of metal albums he’s inspired. Even the music...
Track Premiere: Comatose Vigil A.K. – “Comatose Vigil”
There’s been snow on the ground in some form or other for the better part of the last week here in Northern Indiana, and with...
Track Premiere: Sinister Downfall – “Where Solitude Prevails”
I don’t know how many of our loyal Vault Hunters have strong musical associations with the different seasons, but I generally listen to a lot...
Album Review: Evoken – Hypnagogia
On their upcoming album Hypnagogia, American funeral doom legends Evoken deal with one of the darkest chapters in human history. It began on 28 July...
Track Premiere – Imperceptum – “Sentient Essence of Chaos”
Back in the days when I was a teenager Before I had status and before I had a pager You could find The Abstract listening...