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Album Review: Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier -
There is a certain futility in viewing most drone and/or avant doom -- often there is little to no separation -- as a closed piece. Typically wrapped up tight in the cloak of their own self created atmosphere, bands of this ilk have a tendency to either neglect musical progression...
Asva - What You Don’t Know Is Frontier -
Clinching the year’s most-fitting-title award, What You Don’t Know Is Frontier is the sophomore full-length from ambient doom riders Asva. It speaks of charred, barren landscapes, of limitless, dark oceans, of apocalyptic plains scavenged by long-dead zombies. Burning Witch/Goatsnake guitarist Stuart Dahlquist crafted this epic after the death of his...
What You Dont Know Is Frontier - To the untrained ear, doom metal may seem nothing more than some fartin around on instruments. Most tracks take forever to climax, often taking several minutes to develop any flesh and bone beyond a steady drone or slowly timed thud. True to form, Asvas second album, What You Dont Know...
Stream KHANATE’s New and Final Album, Clean Hands Go Foul -
The new and final album, entitled Clean Hands Go Foul, from legendary New York doom-metal supergroup, KHANATE, can be streamed online here. The four song mini-epic features James Plotkin and Alan Dubin (OLD), Tim Wyskida (BLIND IDIOT GOD) and Stephen O’Malley (BURNING WITCH and SUNN O)))). A limited CD/DVD...
Crippled Lucifer - Doom-dirge practitioners Burning Witch have long since shuffled off this mortal coil but this reissued compilation now expanded to two CDs collects all their recordings with a lavishly thick 40-page booklet of photos, medieval images and essays. Subtitled Ten Psalms for Our Lord of Light (a twist on...
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I -
Drone metal began in America’s Pacific Northwest with Earth, whose 1993 debut Earth 2 slowed Black Sabbath-style riffs down to a rumbling low-frequency crawl. Frontman Dylan Carlson broke up the band in the mid-90s, and Sunn 0))) formed as an Earth tribute act in 1998. That band’s Stephen O’Malley...
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