Review by Sonny for Head of the Demon - Deadly Black Doom (2020)

Deadly Black Doom is Head of the Demon's third album and features six tracks totalling fifty minutes. The Swedes play doom metal that owes a debt to black metal in it's atmosphere and stylings but doesn't really feature any actual BM. What it is is an album full of foreboding and forbidden promises that lure the listener into a sense that they are hearing a ritualistic exhortation to performance of proscribed rites in abandoned crypts by adherents to long-reviled occult teachings. Sinister doom metal that is actually incredibly entertaining and varied with some great hooks and rasping and growled vocals that provides an alternative to the usual occult doom template. If I had to pick a favourite track, I love the drumming on En to Pan, it's uptempo occult vibe is a fantastic example of what the album has to offer.