Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin

Seattle doom metal band Bell Witch have teamed up once again with fellow PNW metal artist Aerial Ruin for the upcoming "Stygian Bough: Volume II."  There's something almost pagan about the slow, autumnal dirge of opening track "Waves Became the Sky."  Check it out below and pre-order the LP here from Profound Lore.

Locrian

Chicago experimental drone metal band Locrian have been kicking it around for a long time now, and the trio now have a new album of noise coming our way next month.  Check out the excellent and bombastic "Excarnate Light" below and pre-order the "End Terrain" LP here from Profound Lore.

Fearing

California band Fearing continues to churn out the gothy post punk jams on new album "Destroyer."  Check out the gloomy "I Was So Alive" below and get the new LP here from Profound Lore.

MIZMOR

Portland artist MIZMOR has a new album of blackened doom metal heading our way with the upcoming "Prosaic."  Check out the blistering, earthy "No Place to Arrive" below and pre-order the album here from Profound Lore.

Bell Witch

Seattle metal band Bell Witch are nothing if not ambitious.  Their latest is an 83-minute long track called "Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate," and it's an epic piece of funereal doom.  And one can only assume there will be more parts to follow.  Anyway, if you've got the time, check it out below and get it here from Profound Lore.

Locrian

It's been a spell since we last heard from Chicago drone metal band Locrian, but all that changes with August's upcoming "New Catastrophism" album.  Check out the sprawling, practically oozing, and ominous "The Glare Is Everywhere and Nowhere Our Shadow" below, and pre-order the album here from Profound Lore.

Fotocrime

"Delicate Prey," the latest track from Fotocrime, sounds like something that might have played some mid '90s goth club.  Part electro post punk, part industrial dance, the song is both bopping and menacing.  Check it out below and get the upcoming "Heart of Crime" album here or here from Profound Lore.

Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin

Seattle doom duo Bell Witch return in June, this time around with dark folk artist Aerial Ruin for a collaborative effort called "Stygian Bough Volume I."  Check out the heavy and somber dirge of "Heaven Torn Low II (the toll)" below and pre-order the album here from Profound Lore.

LINGUA IGNOTA

Experimental noise artist LINGUA IGNOTA has a real talent in making music that's equal parts jarring, terrifying, and mesmerizing.  And she's got a new album headed our way in July, that if the first single is any indication, is going to be an absolute beast of a record.  Check out "Butcher of the World," an intense and creeping mix of noise, metal, opera, and classical music.  The artist screams and wails into the abyss alongside bits of crusty drone and tape loop and segments of Henry Purcell's "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" (also known as the theme from "A Clockwork Orange"), before fading away into haunting sung vocals, an eerie reprieve from what's to come.  Listen below and pre-order the "Caligula" LP here from Profound Lore.

Pallbearer - Dropout

"Dropout" premiered a couple weeks ago on Adult Swim as part of their weekly singles thing, but now Arkansas doom metal band Pallbearer have put the track up for purchase.  It feels more instantly accessible than anything they've done prior.  Listen below and get it here.

Prurient

I've been a fan of Dominick Fernow's often challenging Prurient project for a few years now, and news about the artist's upcoming new album may make it even more than i can handle.  Due in December via Profound Lore and Hospital Productions, new album "Rainbow Mirror" is said to be over 3 hours, spread out over 7 LP's or 4 CD's.  It will be noisy.  It will be droney.  It may sound like the end of the world.  Anyway, listen to the first taste from the record below, the 14-minute "Naturecum."

Bell Witch

Seattle two-piece, doom metal outfit Bell Witch have a new record out this month on Profound Lore, and boy is it a whopper.  "Mirror Reaper" is an 83-minute piece of music sprawled out onto one continuous track, a kind of classical magnum opus that plays out slowly like a gradual crawl towards death.  Listen to an excerpt below and pre-order the vinyl here.

Loss

Here's some somber, funereal doom metal from Nashville's Loss.  Listen to "All Grows on Tears" below and get the band's new "Horizonless" LP from Profound Lore.

Pallbearer - Thorns

As per usual, March is shaping up to be a huge month for new releases from amazing artists all over the spectrum.  And now it appears that Arkansas doom metal band Pallbearer are joining the fray with a new LP on Profound Lore called "Heartless."  First single "Thorns" finds the band locked in their signature sound, pairing crushing Sabbath-inspired riffs with flashes of triumphant classic guitar wail.  Listen below.

Ash Borer

I want to try and stay positive as this year begins to unfold...but we all know it's going to be difficult.  And i feel like "The Irrepassable Gate," the latest from black metal band Ash Borer pretty much nails that dread and apprehension with haunting accuracy.  Equal parts atmospheric and brutal, the title track sounds off the cacophony to follow.  We are in strange and desperate times.  Listen below and get the album from Profound Lore.

Worm Ouroboros

Here's a haunting and chilly dirge from Bay Area metal band Worm Ouroboros to play us out of 2016.  "Broken Movements" feels like an encroaching doom, a heavy, Gothic opus to open up the earth and swallow the masses whole.  Listen below and get new album "What Graceless Dawn" from Profound Lore.

Pallbearer cover Type O Negative

The excellent Arkansas doom metal band Pallbearer have a new EP, "Fear and Fury," out on Profound Lore, and the three track album closes with an amazing and all out banging cover of Type O Negative's "Love You to Death."  Gotta credit my friend Brian on the heads up as i'll be jamming this one for the rest of the day.  Download here, pre-order the vinyl here, and listen below.

Bell Witch

Funereal doom metal to score your slow march into the abyss crafted by two dark souls out of Seattle, Bell Witch's sophomore effort, "Four Phantoms," practically oozes despair.  The record is bleak and brutal and haunting, but also powerfully engaging.  Listen to "Judgement, In Fire: I - Garden (of Blooming Ash)" below and get the record from Profound Lore.

Prurient - Greenpoint

I'm about to spend the rest of my afternoon frying and eating catfish (stoked), so here's a new dark and haunting jam from Prurient's upcoming "Frozen Niagara Falls" LP.  "Greenpoint" is ominous and cold, and has me pumped for the new record.  Listen below and get it in May from Profound Lore.

Prurient - Dragonflies to Sew You Up

A couple of weeks ago, i mentioned the upcoming new album from experimental noise maker Prurient, "Frozen Niagara Falls."  And here's our first taste with the simultaneously gorgeous, haunting, chaotic, and ugly "Dragonflies to Sew You Up."  This album is going to be a beast.  Pre-order now from Profound Lore.