Featuring in their ranks both current and former members of Marche Funèbre and Self Inflicted, dark Stoner Doom outfit Witch Piss have spent the past four years sharing stages with the likes of Your Highness, Belzebong and The Obsessed off the back of their eponymous EP. Now they return with a debut full length “The
Filmed at dBs in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 25th January while they were opening for The Answer Lies In The Black Void, a live rendition of “Phoenix” by The Fifth Alliance has surfaced online. The track is the first single from the bands 28th April via Ardua Music releasing album “Stenahoria” having been mixed and mastered
Recorded by Lander Cluyse at Hearse Studio in Belgium and mixed and mastered by Mendel bij de Leij (ex-Aborted) a new album from The Fifth Alliance finds them joined by new vocalist Natalya Thelen (ex-Yantras) and drummer Peter Scheffer (Soliton). Thematically “Stenahoria” emerges from shared human experiences of sorrow, fear and confinement, emotions that permeate every layer
Mastered by Dan Swano (Barren Earth, Hypocrisy, Novembers Doom) a fourth studio album from Spanish Doom Metal overlords Hela titled “A Reign To Conquer” is set for a 27th February arrival via Ardua Music. Said to be an entwining of fragility and power, its exquisite marriage of hope and despair has been created by ever-present
The long awaited follow up to 2022 album “II: Lost” by Ars Onirica has been announced by Ardua Music for a 24th October release. Curiously dubbed “2.5 Nighttime“, the record is of course a vision in Melodic Doom Death Metal from Alessandro Sforza of Invernoir and Veil of Conspiracy fame with the bands name meaning “Art
Finnish Death Doom duo The Bleak Picture have issued a second single from their upcoming new album “Shades Of Life” in “Silent Exit“. Building on the melancholia of first cut “Without The I” this one offers more richly textured, sombre and emotive sounds from a dark world which will be revealed in full on 27th
Having taken four years to perfect the sound to match their vision of a world of dark, doomed and emotive music, vocalist Tero Ruohonen (Autumnfall, Temple Of Kliffoth) and multi-instrumentalist Jussi Hänninen (Autumnfall, ex-Fall Of The Leafe) unveiled the first of their cryptic writings in EP “Songs Of Longing” in 2024. That was swiftly followed by their debut
Featuring the talents of drummer Dirk Bruinenberg (Elegy) and vocalist Robert Soeterboek (Ayreon, Plan 9) a journey in Doom infused Death Metal, the brainchild of mastermind Bram Bijlhout, is a forthcoming burnt offering from Structure. Their debut album is titled “Heritage” and takes the listener on a journey through the range of emotions that are woven into the
A third advanced listen in “Tales From An Empty Shell” from “Pale Grey Monochrome” by Inborn Suffering has surfaced online with the funeral procession set to arrive on 7th February via Ardua Music. Adorned by arresting artwork from Franck Besançon (Maveth, Solemn Lament, Silent Hill: Townfall) and the intuitive mixing and mastering by Déhà of
Ardua Music have unveiled a second burnt offering in “The Oak” from the upcoming third album of French natives Inborn Suffering. Gathering in their masses earlier this year the widely respected purveyors of melodic and melancholic Doom soaked Death Metal recorded “Pale Grey Monochrome” after twelve years apart, a record which is now pencilled in for
