Track Of The Day - The Fallen Edition
Classic gothic death/doom from the masters of the subgenre. For fans of Saturnus & early Paradise Lost/Anathema.
The closer and best track from the brand new Monolord album is a trad doom epic.
A wonderful post-rock inspired ending to a unique & intriguing Italian doom metal record that should appeal to fans of Witch Mountain, Windhand & Frayle.
Highly atmospheric Swedish doom/death for fans of October Tide & early Paradise Lost/Anathema.
Gothic doom/death from Finland. For fans of Katatonia, Paradise Lost & Slumber.
Gothic doom metal from Liverpool, England. For fans of Katatonia, Paradise Lost & My Dying Bride.
Post-stoner doom from Italy.
Powerful & emotionally engaging US post-sludge metal.
Crushing German funeral doom metal.
An ultra-slow, funeral doom sea shanty from one of the greatest metal albums ever made.
The highly influential title track from a very important English death/doom record.
A wonderfully ethereal cover version of English new romantic/synthpop artist Visage's hit single from 1980.
An epic German death doom metal excursion of the highest order.
Elite level droney sludge metal of the highest order from Bayonne, France.
A short & sludgy grunge piece that reminds me very much of Mother Love Bone at times.
Crushing US doom/death that sounds like diSEMBOWELMENT meets Bolt Thrower.
Traditional doom metal from Maryland, USA.
Winter's sole album Into Darkness is better than the other two death-doom albums I've reviewed, but is it enough to get me to return to doom metal and other Fallen genres? Not right now... I'm actually stunned by the funeral doom tag this album has. Sure it would inspire bands like Esoteric, Funeral, and Thergothon to make albums that brought funeral doom to the light of day, but I think that's more of a secondary genre for Into Darkness. It's not entirely like that because of the occasional bursts of speed that are part of death-doom, like in this highlight below. If any of you Fallen members agree with me here, please vote against the funeral doom subgenre tag. Sorry about this, Ben...
High quality stoner doom from Melbourne, Australia.
Aussie.. Aussie.. Aussie...... Oi.. Oi.. Oi!
An immense half-hour drone piece from Washington's godfathers of the drone metal sound.
A stunning 32 minute drone metal epic with an environmental message from Nottingham duo, Bismuth.
Mind-blowing doom/death metal from New Jersey, USA.
This lengthy acoustic closer reminds me so much of my favourite Led Zeppelin album "Houses Of The Holy".
North Carolina Southern Metal champions Corrosion of Conformity put their doomy Alice In Chains hats.