Artist: Doom

B. — Plan B. Возвращаясь на арену музыкальных блогов, редакция Big Echo берётся за крепкое, разрушительное оружие, и начинает новую историю сайта с дума — широкой категории метала, раскрывающейся такими приставками, как «stoner», «funeral», «sludge», «death» или «drone». Автором знакового микстейпа выступил участник одной из сибирских думовых групп, поставивший в теге mp3 файла своё nom de guerre «B.»: Pallbearer - Foreigner Yob - Upon the Sight of the Other Shore Kamni - Lysergic General Witch Mountain - End Game Horse Latitudes - Profane Awakening [...]

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News of outré Scandi jazz ensemble the Thing combining forces with Stockholm songstress Neneh Cherry was largely neglected and with nothing readily available for aural digestion, well, little wonder perhaps. However that their first collaborative effort The Cherry Thing was to feature reinterpretations of tracks from an eclectic spectrum ranging from DOOM to The Stooges and would be restrung by the ageless vocal chords of a lady now approaching her fiftieth year, this avant-garde work begins to assume genuine intrigue. They return to protopunk for the first sonic sample available: a rework of Suicide's [...]

Although it's probably safe to say that sludge metal quartet Torche has been heading in a progressively more pop-inflected direction throughout the past few years, that's not to say that they have sacrificed ambition as a result. On "Reverse Inverted," the second track to drop from the band's upcoming LP, the band proves this by combining frontman Steve Brooks' catchy vocal approach with riffs that experiment with unconventional time signatures. One of the track's strongest moments comes with the closing riff, which sees the band lock into a relentlessly engaging groove, then introduce a particularly euphoric guitar melody that carries [...]

With all the brouhaha regarding summer outdoor festivals, we somewhat neglected a springtime indoor one that's taking place on our very doorstep - DesertFest . Today is the third and final day of the first London incarnation of the festival, where more than 50 stoner, doom, spacerock and sludge bands have been giving the foundations of Camden Town a solid shake-up. If - like us - you had to miss this year's festival, you can at least console yourself with the Spotify Slaylist we've made in the festival's honour. [...]

Fisting - unmastered by Bongripper Chicago metal outfit Bongripper deals in all things heavy. If it's a style of rock that features heavy riffs, and tons of bass, the band has probably indulged in it at some point across the five albums its released since '06. The group has just released a new unmastered single on its Bandcamp titled "Fisting," and the track has a pretty climatic progression. It all starts with a noisy, ominous drone. Eventually, doom-bringing riffs start pounding away in the mix just before the band breaks into blast beats and [...]

High On Fire returns with an abrasive set of songs, and a crushing new sound thanks to producer Kurt Ballou. WATCH THE REVIEW

Woods 4 was a resplendent, sprawling and morose masterpiece. Its protagonist, ultimately, was victorious in his travails, leaving the listener in a state of transcendent triumph. Woods 5 cannot enjoy the same benefit; this album is inseparable in tone and spirit from its creator's untimely passing. More pithy and focused than its predecessor, Woods 5 ...

In the almighty Pantheon of Doom Metal, next to such immoveable pillars as Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus, there stands ELECTRIC WIZARD from Dorset, England. Recognized as one of the greats of the genre, ELECTRIC WIZARD has a reputation to live up to. Recently, Jus Oborn and friends have returned with a killer new album titled Black Masses, further guaranteeing their tenure in the Pantheon. Black Masses, released in North America on January 18 via Rise Above Records, was produced by Grammy-winning engineer Liam Watson (THE WHITE STRIPES) in London's Toe Rag Studios. Upon dropping the needle on [...]

After a string of European festival dates DOOM will play a one-off show at London's Forum. No word ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ doom-to-play-londons-forum/638 91/

Soundcrash have confirmed that the legendary DOOM will be heading to London later in the year for a one-off show. The show takes place on October 12th at The Forum, and with early bird tickets currently selling for £22.50, we suggest you head over to the Soundcrash site straight away and buy a couple. DOOM is set to release a collaborative album with Jneiro Jarel towards the end of the year, so we imagine the set will feature quite a few of those tracks.

Mares of Thrace is guitarist/vocalist Thérèse Lanz and drummer Stefani MacKichan. They play largely-improvised alterna-doom metal. The Pilgrimage tends to sound like a combination of Kylesa and Black Cobra. If you read the Hornmeister (patent pending) with any regularity, this you already know. What you may be asking yourself, is: why is he reviewing this record again? It occurred to me that I'd never reviewed the same album twice in rapid succession. Ghost's Opus Eponymous I actually did review twice, but there was a year and half between reviews. Since I love [...]

. . . It's probably appropriate that I took an eternity to write this review. Like all great doom—a classification under which they most certainly fall—Pallbearer take their sweet time working into your skull. The Little Rock, Arkansas quartet traffic in a low and slow metallic pummeling that fits somewhere between the sub-glacial pace of funeral legends Skepticism and the more modern approach of labelmates YOB and Loss (on whose 2011 LP Despond Pallbearer vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell made a cameo). It's what more conservative types would call "traditional", and what the more dramatic among us would [...]

Divulgado há poucas horas na fanpage oficial do evento, as duas atrações que faltavam para completar a lineup foram anunciadas: DOOM e Cut Chemist . Com mais de 50 atrações entre os dois dias de festival, o Sónar SP traz em 11 e 12 de maio no Parque Anenhembi, grandes nomes da música eletrônica e bandas já consagradas que prometem trazer grande público, como Björk , Justice , Cee Lo Green , Chromeo , o fenômeno de 2011, James Blake , sem esquecer das prata da casa como [...]

Sentenced to Life is pretty much an album of Entombed covering hardcore acts like Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Discharge, and even Bad Religion. It's on Southern Lord. For most of you reading this, that's pretty much all you need to know. I don't even need to make a judgment call here; you've already decided if this if this is for you. For the rest of you, it's really. Goddamn. cool. It's the detuned death metal Sunlight Sound from Sweden, interpreting the rage of NYHC. Like Sons of Satan [...]

A quick check-in from your kamikaze reporter... Since the marathon ended I've gotten out to check out a few bands: shots are in this order: Magic Circle from Boston, Windhand from Richmond, VA, Rhode Island's Pilgrim , a shot of Brooklyn's own Natur and then live in the WFMU studio on this past edition of My Castle of Quiet: Wretched Worst ! This Thursday at noon, the PEER PRESSURE guest on my Kamikaze Fun Machine program will be Mike Hill, [...]

My favorite Italians are back with a new album! About 2 years ago I was introduced to the joys of Ufomammut through their excellent album Eve. I've been looking forward to hearing new material from them ever since and now the wait is over. Oro is their 6th album and is the first installment in a 2 part series. I really have no idea what the lyrical concept is behind Oro but the music is some of the heaviest shit out there. Lots of bands try to combine Black Sabbath heaviness with Pink Floyd trippyness but only Ufomammut and Yob [...]

Listening to the sinister, Mad Maximised atmospherics of East London producer Midnight Davis ' debut EP (out now via Five Easy Pieces ), I am reminded of the final scene of The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer, now my favourite book. In it, the narrator and his friend, Steranko, sit and watch a vast, sweltering Clapham Common pyre the day after the 1988 hurricane. Everything is burning, dying, restarting, re-ordering; it feels apocalyptic and portentous, cathartic and cyclical: "Eventually we got up to leave. Together we swung first Steranko's and then my [...]

Conan Monnos Burning World 02 April 2012 by Tom Dare Just as thrash comes in degrees of ridiculously fast, the doom/stoner metal bands come in various shades of galactically heavy. Conan are from the end of that spectrum where you literally (in the correct, non- Redknappian use of the word) fear for your speaker cones. You'll probably have to turn their new album Monnos down a touch after your stereo begins to emit some worrying noises. [...]

. . . I stumbled across Antediluvian's Revelations In Excrement at a record shop yesterday, and after bringing it home and greedily consuming it, immediately fell into a binge of chaotic black/death that only ebbed three, four hours ago. I can still feel the music, though, whether it be in the shadow of a blast beat that's currently rattling around in my cranium, or the tense energy that's causing me to grind my teeth whenever I'm not actively resisting. Which is why I'm glad that I had already made this mix; I needed a comedown. [...]