During the 80s, doom metal was in a fractured state and barely a ‘scene’ at all. Candlemass and Trouble enjoyed some mainstream success, but others – including the likes of Pentagram, Witchfinder ...

The power of the almighty riff is strong. While other metal genres dazzle with virtuosic guitar playing, unfathomable speed, relentless brutality, and falsetto vocals, doom metal centers around one ...

The past decade has seen quite a resurgence in doom metal, so much so that listeners outside of metal have likely heard the word “doom” or “doomy” thrown around with reference to heavy music, psych, ...

Here are the 5 best doom metal albums of the 2020s, chosen by Ohio's atmospheric doom quartet Frayle. This third record is an extension of what Frayle have been so exemplary in executing, even ...

Wielding a mix of ‘art rock’ and crushingly heavy doom metal, Pallbearer are pushing for one of the most ambitious metal albums of 2024 with Mind Burns Alive. Over the last decade the Little Rock, ...

Modern digital avenues for music discovery can make it hard to remember what “underground” used to mean. Before the Internet, underground music was hard to find and often hard to even know about—and ...

This article was originally published in SPIN on October 1, 2009. In 1970, Black Sabbath drained the blues from hard rock, slowing it into a depresso nightmare trudge with Frankenstein feet. Myriad ...