Following up from their highly-praised demo EP Samsara two years ago, Snailking's long-awaited, monolithic full-length Storm is finally in our midst. Hailing from Sweden,...

While dozens of crazes have faded in and out of the metal community in the past decade, the holy trinity of stoner, black and...

I shy away from using the term "clone". To me, it's always been a bit of a cop-out when talking about music. Almost every...

When dealing with new releases from artists as prolific as ex-Celtic Frost and Hellhammer vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer (better known by his stage name ‘Tom Warrior’), it’s very easy...

Doom metal is an eternal struggle, a tug-of-war between two inexorable forces. On the one hand, you have overpowering riffs set to a glacial...

One of my favorite left-field answers to the dreaded “what kind of music do you listen to” question is “caveman music.” It gets a...

On their sophomore EP Saturn, Portugal doom rockers A Tree Of Signs conjure a ritualistic concoction of Sabbathian riff ballads and grim stoner dirges....

Situations like these are why I hate giving albums numerical scores. If you can recognize a band's talent and skill, but also recognize that...

In terms of music that sounds absolutely hateful, sludge metal is the scene you can always count on to keep pushing the envelope. Whether...

The aspect of doom and sludge metal that's always drawn me into it is the fact that there aren't very many rules as to...