It's early on a recent Friday morning and I'm at home listening to "Mind Burns Alive," the new album out today from Little Rock doom metal quartet Pallbearer. Outside a steady rain falls and thunder ...

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn ...

As doom purists threaten to take the place of black metal elitists as the most annoying people in metal, Pallbearer is no stranger to braving the backlash to branch out from low, slow, and dreary to ...

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Doom-metal pioneers Pentagram played San Antonio’s Paper Tiger Tuesday night, demonstrating why the group continues to have such staying power even though it formed in 1971 and contains only one ...

Back in 2016, when this column had a different name in a different publication, I stumbled upon Italian doom band Messa and their debut full-length, Belfry. It lit in me a particular fire — a fire ...

There's an awkward moment at the end of a relationship where you both realize you have nothing left to say to each other. This is where you might resort to talking about the weather or, worse, start ...

Legion of Doom is a new doom-metal supergroup consisting of some heavy hitters of the doom metal genre. The band has just announced two shows for this June—June 3 and the Chicago House of Blues, and ...

Brace yourselves as a cold chill sweeps in from the Kolbotn region of Norway, as a newly formed epic doom outfit has burst onto the scene earlier today, called Coffin Storm. With Darkthrone’s Fenriz, ...

Like most good stories, this begins in a grocery store parking lot. As a guitar player, I’m always looking at guitars and guitar equipment, and that search has led me to an Albertsons parking lot, ...

"BFG Division" from 2016's Doom hits 100 million streams on Spotify, a milestone for composer Mick Gordon. Doom has established a lasting legacy in the FPS genre, and its metal-inspired soundtrack ...