We love a good one man band and we love Finnish metal. So by combining those two things in Finnish doom meets dark metal solo artist Infirmum, we think we've found something pretty special.
Discover This: Infirmum
Discover This: Heathe
Danish project Heathe is far from your 'usual' rock band. For starters, it's not a band as such, more a collective of liquid band members built around one constant, Martin Pale.
Introducing: Kurokuma
Any band that provides Jamiroquai's Deeper Underground with a doomy, sludgy ten-minute-long metal makeover gets a firm thumbs up from us - so let us introduce you to Sheffield's Kurokuma.
New Music Friday Round-Up: 1 February
We've got some truly wondrous new music to bring your week to a terrifying yet bright and uplifting end.
Introducing: Mastiff launch a terrifying new beginning
If you're on the lookout for music that might make you want to tap your foot and nod your head, then look away now. Because Hull sludge doom merchants Mastiff are only interested in "someone slamming their head into a concrete wall just by listening to it."
New Band of the Week: Barbarian Hermit
With a name like this, how could we possibly not name Barbarian Hermit as our New Band of the Week? And when you hear their music, which they delightfully describe using the 3 G's of "Gargantuan, groove and gravy," our choice is only further validated. The Manchester doom and sludge scene super-group are proud creators... Continue Reading →
Introducing: Deeper Down
Italian gothic rockers Deeper Down bring us an intriguing, mysterious sound that combines doominess, wailing vocals and string instruments. The quintet of vocalist Elisa Cesarino, guitarist Luca de Cesare, bassist Roberto Alfieri, violinist Alessandro, and drummer, guitarist and keyboard player Giuseppe Parisi hail from the town of Campobasso in southern Italy which, interestingly, shares the... Continue Reading →
New Band of the Week: Hundred Year Old Man
We're starting 2018 as we mean to go on by making our first New Band of the Week of the year the brilliantly bleak, relentlessly heavy Leeds-based doom sludgers Hundred Year Old Man. The six-piece of Tom Wright (guitar), Steve Conway (drums), Aaron Bateman (bass), Paul Broughton (vocals), Dan Rochester-Argyle (keys and vocals) and Owen Pegg (guitar and vocals) - plus... Continue Reading →
Introducing: Kroh
In the past few weeks I've been getting more and more into the awesome dirgey sound of dark doom metal. And we've found a band that epitomises everything that's great about this filthily beautiful genre in Birmingham doom-mongers Kroh. The five-piece of vocalist Oliwia Sobieszek, guitarists Paul Kenney and Paul Harrington, bassist Darren Donovan and... Continue Reading →
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