Diaries of Doom

Hail Satan, Triumph Awaits! It's a fitting title for Tumanduumband's second full-length, self-released today. With horror movie samples littered throughout and crushing doom metal riffs, it's a dark, unsettling listening experience. Spinning this album must be a bit like having a bad trip while Electric Wizard and cult classics play in the background, very, very slowly. The Stourbridge-based doom duo released Throne of Grief shortly before Halloween 2023, backed up by a busy touring schedule in the UK where Luke and Scott delivered, and continue to deliver, a simple but effective cocktail of bass, drums, riffs, fuzz, skulls, blood and Satan to whichever venue that has the stones to let them through their doors. With no vocals, no guitars, no solos, and no fucking about, their core aim of bringing doom down to its simplest, most skull-caving, most fundamental form has remained true, and Hail Satan, Triumph Awaits very much carries on down that path. Bigger, scarier, and lon...

Tusks up! Bradfordian stoner doom titans Son of Boar return this week with the storming new single U.F.O. Son of Boar are on fine form with their first new track since Satanic Panic (Revelations) a couple of years ago. No less than twelve minutes of monolithic riff worship, to put it bluntly, it's spacey and heavy as fuck throughout and doesn't so much announce their return but scream it from the top of a mountain. A holy mountain, perhaps. In the band's own words, U.F.O. is a vagabond’s tale of fungal experimentation. The song seeks to take listeners on a journey through the honest retelling of youthful exploration, while channelling feelings of impending doom, confusion, and wonder. Producer Kurt Wood has helped the band find and focus their sound, delivering cacophonous drums from Luke Doran, paired with the thunder-flow of Gaz Bates' bass playing. Both form the sturdy foundations upon which a wall of guitar sounds is built by Lyndon Birchall and Adam Waddell, all ...

At War With The Sun will drop their newest EP Remembrance on 12th September 2025. It's hench, it's miserable, it's funeral doom as fuck - if you like it crushingly low, slow and heavy, then this one's for you! This EP will be released digitally and as a digipak, with artwork sombrely created by the band themselves. At War With The Sun are an atmospheric funeral doom metal power trio hailing from the bleakest parts of Worcestershire, coming together to create droning, sludgy soundscapes to draw the light out of a room for fans of Thou, Neurosis and Khanate. Expect a procession of battering-ram heavy, hook laden palm-muted riffs interspersed with sad instrumental passages and full-on funeral doom sections ranging from 40-60 BPM. Add in a subtle dose of psychedelia and the end result is a sound which is fresh while remaining resolutely old school in its approach. Remembrance was produced by Pete MacBeth at Studio 58, Herefordshire. Tour dates: 14th September - Wor...