#Atmospheric Doom

[zoeflake]

Thurisaz - Past Perfect (subtitulada español)

#thurisaz #past perfect #atmospheric doom #favorite songs #♥♥♥

[gbhbl]

EP Review: Ixion - Extinction (Finisterian Dead End/Season of Mist)

French atmospheric doom collective Ixion return with their fifth studio album, divided into three parts with Part 1, Extinction, set for release on the 16th of April. Four years after the release of their critically lauded fourth album, L’Adieu aux Etoile, French atmospheric doom collective Ixion return with L’Adieu aux Etoiles’s natural successor. The full album, Evolution is described as…

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#Atmospheric Doom #Atmospheric Metal #best new music #Enfant de la Nuit #extinction #Finisterian Dead End #France #French bands #French metal #Ixion #Julien Prat #L&039;adieu aux Etoiles #New Metal #Return #Season of Mist #To The Void #Yannick Dilly

[onlyhurtforaminute]

SOOTHSAYER-WAR OF THE DOVES

#SOOTHSAYER #SLUDGE #SLUDGE METAL #ATMOSPHERIC SLUDGE #ATMOSPHERIC SLUDGE METAL #DOOM #DOOM METAL #ATMOSPHERIC DOOM METAL #ATMOSPHERIC DOOM #HEAVY METAL #METAL #ECHOES OF THE EARTH #2021 ALBUM #Youtube

[faetoothofficial]

Song of the Day

#song of the day #ancestors #spotify #doom metal #atmospheric metal #atmospheric doom #doomgaze #los angeles #Spotify

[doomedandstoned]

FLESH OF THE STARS Reveal Fifth LP, ‘The Glass Garden’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

I've had my eye on FLESH OF THE STARS since 2016's most excellent Hossana and we invited the group to be a part of our compilation Doomed & Stoned in Chicago a year later. Now the Chicago progressive doomers return with their fifth full-length, 'The Glass Garden' (2023). Described by the band as "a southwestern ghost story to match the eerie, elemental tone of the music," the record dares us to imagine a ruined world inhabited by mournful spirits. "Atrocities of the past echo in paranoid visions of creatures in dark corners and hidden signals in the static."

First track "Terraforms" comes rampaging out of the gates with an offbeat rhythm accented by signals which subtly flutter and spurt on the synthesizer. Guitars are emphatic and glowing with irradiated fuzz. You might be expecting black metal shrieks or deathly growls to emerge at this point, but the band contrasts the driving beat with earnest vocals that hover and swirl above the strewn landscape like ghosts. It is precisely this contrast that makes Flesh of the Stars so compelling.

Lyrics present a fluid stream of consciousness, giving up vivid descriptions of the scene before us:

Floods buzzing like a hive over fortified ground. The only voice in the vastness as I idle on thru, uncertain & unbound, onto bear witness to the plague, leaching into tender soil. What will ever stop this meaningless machine? All will be consumed when the floodlights beam.

While you don't need the words to genuinely experience this music, the lyrics really deepened my own appreciation for each track and what it was trying to accomplish. I'm once again drawn to the stark post-apocalyptic short stories of Philip K. Dick for comparison.

With its bittersweet strumming, "Overworld" has the feel of some lost Renaissance air just now unearthed. The soft cooing of the keys and pedal steel guitar in the backdrop adds a layer of uncanny atmosphere to the disquieting narrative. Crashing chords follow, reminding us that we are, after all, still in Doom's domain.

Sand, fragments, and dirt, whirling & rising, pelting my skin, blurring my eyes red & raw. They say, don't turn away until I feel the pull. Gather my strength, cover my eyes, and wait.

If you've appreciated the vocal harmonies up to now, "Into The Maze," pairs them so effectively with the warmth of the bass and some positively Elderesque guitar leads. It's hard to know when "After the Dream" begins, as the previous song melts so seamlessly and naturally into it. There's a dreamy wistfulness about the song, as the lyrics and melodic vocals depict a "surge growing stronger, washing away cars up on bricks. Foundations split, plague comes, mud sticks." Immediately following the emphatic thud-thud-thud-thud of guitar, bass, and drums at the nine-minute mark, synth and lap steel take the reins for a section worthy of a John Carpenter soundtrack.

"Unseen" concludes the album with earthquaking low-end (captured pristinely on this recording), joined by wave-crashing symbols, warm, sustaining bass tone, and clean, consoling vocals. Things end on the single note of feedback that the record began with.

Throughout The Glass Garden, songwriter Matt Ciani (guitar, keys, vox) builds atmosphere like a mighty cloud formation that builds slowly, but eventfully, into massive cumulus monoliths. Matt's ethereal, melancholic singing is especially effective, grounded to reality by stalwart percussionists Nico Ciani and Sam Corman Penzel, with Will Phalen on the pedal steel. In sum, a slow burn that is a genuinely moving album.

Look for The Glass Garden by Flesh of the Stars this Friday, October 27th (get it here). Stick it on a playlist with Elder, Deafheaven, Chrome Ghost, Messa, and Moon Coven.

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The Glass Garden by Flesh of the Stars

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After ten years of progressive doom metal & synthesizer worship from Chicago’s Flesh of the Stars, the band is closing out their current chapter with the sprawling new full-length The Glass Garden, to be released on October 27, 2023. It is their sixth release, following 2021’s Mirror / Vessels EP and four LPs, including the acclaimed Anhilla (2017) and Mercy (2019).

Recorded in July 2022 with Doug Malone at Jamdekand at FotS home base by frontman Matt Ciani, this new LP embraces sonic clarity & simplicity. The drums hit harder, the guitars blossom in tremendous widescreen, and the keys maintain a sense of unease to match vocalist Matt Ciani’s intimate performance. 'The Glass Garden' is a meticulous blend of synthesizers, electric pianos, pedal steel, and, of course, massive towers of fuzz guitar.

"Compared to our previous work," the band says, "the riffs on GG are more serpentine, the drums more muscular, the BPMs a bit higher, and the arrangements more live-sounding, presenting the band in our core elements with minimal overdubs."

Album opener “Terraforms” starts with a blast, doom but almost not, quickly making clear that Flesh of the Stars are again expanding their sonic capabilities. The story begins with a drive south through the desert as the sun sets in deep red. Dozens of abandoned cars line the highway as we barrel through slinky guitar leads and disorienting whirlwinds of drums.

“Overworld” introduces haunting pedal steel guitar, played by Chicago multi-instrumentalist Will Phalen. His performance ranges from barely-there uneasy swells to hollow ghost town howls to full-on shrieking as the song abruptly shifts in tone and volume.

“Into the Maze” is a marathon - a feast of riffs, melodies, and time signatures, each morphing into each other and then recalling motifs from six sections back. Corman Penzel’s drumming takes us fully through the wormhole, mirroring Ciani’s storytelling, which takes us into an otherworldly aperture, a tunnel “too tight to crawl”, but we’re “too far to turn back.”

Side B begins with a moment to breathe. A lone somber clean guitar patiently coaxes the band back to life after the tumult of “Into the Maze”. It is eventually joined by Fender Rhodes, pedal steel (this time pushing even further into ambient country territory), and Ciani’s quiet & mournful vocal. Over 12 minutes, “After the Dream” builds from near-silence to absolute doom bombast before descending into a subterranean synth finale in the oscillating, modulating void.

“Unseen” seamlessly picks up where “After the Dream” ends, swapping bass synth for a veiled nylon string guitar to begin a 5-minute synth-folk ballad, at times reprising album opener “Terraforms”, taking the listener back to “the all-seeing red” of the nuclear sunset in the desert. What follows is nine minutes of twisting, hurtling, downtuned prog intensity, as The Glass Garden reaches for its highest highs before its startling and abrupt end.

Taken as a whole, The Glass Garden stands as Flesh of the Stars’ most ambitious and fully realized LP, a final word from a band that has never stopped honing their style and skills in their ten-year run.

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[arcusxx]

art by blindsight_visions

#dark art #dark illustration #dark #occult #magic #ritual #death #life #atmosphere #mood #black metal #death metal #doom metal #thouhgts #black and white #bnw #skull #moon

[themetalwanderlust]

Interview: Pete Majors - Qaalm

Interview: Pete Majors – Qaalm

Resiliance & Despair by LA-based Doom wizards, Qaalm, was released early spring this year and has been impressing listeners since. Many of us at TMW have been singing the album’s praises from the jump, and we see no reason to stop now! The following interview occurred just after the album’s release in April. Our trusty mate Trendcrusher had an awesome chat with vocalist Pete Majors about oh so…

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#Atmospheric Doom #Best Of 2022 So Far #doom #Featured #Qaalm

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

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[haveyouheardthisband]

#Sludge Metal #Doom Metal #Atmospheric Sludge Metal #Post-Metal #2010s #2020s #USA #poll #Spotify

[oldmandoomer]

The Offering - ink. 2023

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#art #hand drawn #dark art #sketchbook #artwork #inkdrawing #occult art #traditional art #deathtrip #doomer #human sacrifice #dragon bait #atmospheric black metal #black metal #doom metal

[pikkish]

I thought it was hilarious, at first, that everyone’s decided Doomguy is still the protagonist of MyHouse.wad. After all, it doesn’t really have much more to do with Doom than gmod has to do with Half-Life 2. But then I remembered, isn’t that a plot point of Doom II? Visiting the burnt out ruins of your hometown on your way to the portal to Hell? Why couldn’t Doomguy take a few minutes to have a nightmare of an emotional journey in a childhood friend’s home to come to terms with everyone and everything he ever loved being destroyed?

#doom #myhouse.wad #lines i did #just to be clear i still do think its very funny that its been unanimously decided that dg is the protagonist of myhouse.wad #man has been fighting demons for thirty years and what does he get for his thirtieth birthday? more demons #except this time theyre mental and emotional demons #myhouse.wad does deserve all the popularity its getting tho #like.. yeah its amazing in its atmosphere n stuff #but its also nuts on a purely technological level #stepped inside the house the first time and just had to stop for a sec bc is that a hecking. BASEMENT?? a SECOND FLOOR in CLASSIC DOOM???? #that shouldnt even be POSSIBLE. #(i mean. it obviously IS possible w clever use of various teleport effects. but still. it was a bit of a :O !!!!!!! moment) #setting a ridiculously high bar right off the bat and then following through for the rest of the game in meeting it #anyway. it was really good. #i guess in this case the good end would be more of a metaphorical/mental state? #being at peace internally as u go to voluntarily enter the depths of hell... #or something like that; anyway. idk man i am still just going :eyes: at the whole thing

[christiandegn]

My new full length black metal record is now available for streaming on all platforms.

#Black Metal #Death Metal #Thrash Metal #Doom Metal #Ambient #Atmospheric Black Metal #Moray #The Natural World #Drawing #Music #Metal #Art #Ink Drawing #Bandcamp

[analogvideostore]

Gothic Metal

#Gothic Metal #Doom Metal #Symphonic Metal #Alternative Metal #Atmospheric Metal #Extreme Metal #retro #vintage #band #music #artist #90s #2000s #nineties #art #cover #illustration #CD #septicflesh #fallen temple #the gathering #always... #tiamat #wildhoney #peccatum #theatre of tragedy #ihsahn #anneke van giersbergen #goth

[doomedandstoned]

MEGALITH LEVITATION Stoke Flames of Doom on New LP ‘Obscure Fire’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

Artwork by godlikeikons

When we last checked in with the hooded cadre from the Ural Mountains of Chelyabinsk Oblast, MEGALITH LEVITATION had just revealed their collection of Void Psalms (one of Doomed & Stoned's Heavy Best of 2021, reviewed here). Now two years hence, the mysterious cult speak once again.

Their third full-length is called 'Obscure Fire' (2023). My closest stream of consciousness is an archaic reference to "strange fire" in the Old Testament. "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not." Whether these songs lay claim to the profane offering of Leviticus 10:1 we may never know, but what is certain is their dark, powerful, hypnotic atmosphere.

The album begins and ends in flames. Strange dissonant guitar strains emerge from opening track "Obscure Fire." It's a bit jarring at first, but we're quickly captured under its spell. Drums and bass join in a dirge, and cultic voices bellow while the solemn ritual proceeds, complete with the swaying hands of acolytes and damning riffage.

With spiral flames I will Create new world of illusions And ancient mysteries Will rise from diamond tombs

This bleeds into the anodyne strumming "Of Silence." The song's central riff surfaces four minutes in and worshipful voices consort. The heartbeat quickens at the seven-minute mark and things start to feel deadly amidst unsettling tremeloes and pulsating rhythm. By the end of the song, we're lost in the throes of sweet delirium.

"Descending" bathes us in a swirl of ancient fuzz, as we enter the passageway connecting Side A to Side B. The theme is laid out in painstaking fashion, while priests cantillate in darkness around a cauldron of spite. It's as if we're gradually being slowly lowered into a great well as voices echo above and beneath the pit.

As we enter "In The Depths" we enter a clandestine chapel far, far underground, lit with candles and an odd glowing ember in the center, a place of arcane magick. A Cathedralesque tempo dances us closer and closer to the flames. Around four-minutes, the band shifts into slow headbanging mode with an undeniable riff and mesmerizing chanting.

The final number carries on in purposeful stride, whilst guitars wail in a way most fitting for "Eternal Doom." Phlegmatic voices intone and we are once again in a trance. Seven-and-a-half minutes in, the mood suddenly changes with new cries of pain and ecstasy revealing a mystical second theme. We encounter the trio in plainchant one more time, taking us to finish with narcotic haze.

Obscure Fire by Megalith Levitation releases March 31st, with an impressive CD package put together by the Aesthetic Death label (pre-order here) and artwork by godlikeikons, who did the covers for Doomed & Stoned in Russia I & II. Stick these songs on a playlist with Ufomammut, Bomg, Dirge, Ethereal Riffian, and Saturnalia Temple.

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Obscure Fire by Megalith Levitation

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gordiart

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[blindfiend]

Is your favorite Metallica album Ride The Lightning? 🥰

#black metal #atmospheric black metal #art #black aesthetic #dark art #death metal #depressive black metal #ambient black metal #symphonic black metal #doom metal #extreme metal #metallica #ride the lightning #alternative rock #earlymetal