Track Of The Day - The Fallen Edition

A dark highlight continuing what the band has in Free Fall Into Fear, before switching into their earlier gothic roots:

A pounding start to Trail of Tears' epic then-swansong album:

With this high amount of heaviness and epicness, Trail of Tears are back with a vengeance:

My journey through Trail of Tears' discography didn't completely end 4 months ago. I've just breezed through their demos that includes this heavenly highlight:

Still reigning as one of my favorites from Novembre's debut in this re-recording:

The perfect climax of slow progressive death-doom, as growls and cleans battle it out once more:

Checking out that Monolithe album earlier this month was the boost I needed to be up for more of the melodic death-doom sound from these Finnish masters of the genre:

All the beauty and brutality to expect in the new Chat Pile album is summarized right here:

A great early example of female-fronted progressive doom with its bleak darkness:

A doomy highlight of peaceful melancholy:

An absolute must-listen for anyone wanting to hear the bridge between Comalies and Karmacode:

The excellent opening track to Trouble's S/T (Psalm 9) album has been bouncing around in my head for a few days now and has become one of my favourites from a band I haven't always necessarily been the biggest fan of.

Before he joined Candlemass, a teenage Messiah Marcolin was vocalist and drummer with Mercy, a swedish band who released two albums with Messiah on vocals. These were a forgettable 1984 self-titled debut that merely trotted out NWOBHM tropes and sounded like Saxon and 1985's Witchburner which was much better, embracing the emerging doom aesthetic. This is the opener and possibly best track: