Blog: PopMatters

Misery Wizard is doom on horse tranquilizers. In the sacred hall of legendary metal bands, Finnish doomster Reverend Bizarre is worshipped fervently. Back in the early '00s, the band took all that was unwieldy about doom metal and via some delightfully diabolic means stretched songs out to marathon lengths, making them all so crushingly heavy that they bordered on suffocating. When the band disbanded in '07 it left a huge gap in the doom scene. Many bands have endeavored to replicate Reverend's...