Riff Vault: Independent Rock & Metal Album Reviews

Midryasi's Kult: Italian Dark Sound

Marvin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Midryasi's Kult: 3/5

An Italian occult-doom collective's debut, steeped in the horror lineage of Death SS and Paul Chain and caked in dirty fuzz. Raw and characterful, with one genuinely great song, let down by a loud, uneven master.

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Paling: Galore

Marvin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Paling: 3/5

Ten tracks of cavernous German atmospheric sludge that pair ritual clean chants with raw screams and bury both in fuzz. Immersive and genuinely oppressive when it moves, dulled by a low-mid murk that clings to the whole record.

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Truckfighters: Masterflow

Marvin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Truckfighters: 3/5

A decade after their last record, the Örebro fuzz institution return moodier and more expansive than the desert-rock nostalgia crowd might expect. Uneven in the mastering, but the best of it breathes like they never left.

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Okay You Win: End of Days

Marvin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Okay You Win: 3/5

A London four-piece's debut, desert rock cut with 90s alt-metal grit and a real gift for a hook. Gutsy and likeable, blunted by a mix that runs too hot and too harsh.

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Slift: Fantasia

Marvin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Slift: 4/5

The Toulouse trio trade cosmic sprawl for lean aggression, eight tracks of heavy psych sharpened to a point by Kurt Ballou's mix. Their most direct record yet, and one of their best.

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Zørza: Twilight of the Golden Star

Marvin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Zørza: 3/5

A Polish duo's sophomore post-black record, all romantic-symbolist grandeur and guest vocals from Harakiri for the Sky and Karg. The writing reaches high, but a loudness-war master keeps clipping its wings.

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Iskandr: Sacraal

Marvin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Iskandr: 4/5

The Nijmegen project's latest is a cavernous, hymnal statement of atmospheric black metal drifting into folk-doom and post-industrial dread, sung in Dutch and built to swallow you whole. Singular, immersive, and mastered with rare restraint.

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Purple Skies: A Million Years

Marvin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Purple Skies: 3/5

A Bergen crew serve nine tracks of warm, retro-spined proto-doom and fuzz, riffs and vintage haze in equal measure. Genuinely charming when the title track lets the dynamics loose, held back by a low-mid murk that clings to the rest.

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Sowa: Gdansk Macabre

Marvin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sowa: 3/5

A Berlin outfit pour eleven tracks of brooding, fuzz-caked post-prog and dark alternative into a derelict-shipyard mood, all 90s weight and low-end murk. Full of character and a few genuinely dynamic highlights, dragged down by an uneven, low-mid-heavy mix.

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Desert Collider: Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity

Marvin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Desert Collider: 3/5

A Cesena crew turn Heinlein's generation-ship nightmare into eight tracks of raw, spacey stoner rock, riffs and cosmic drift in equal measure. Adventurous and full of atmosphere, weighed down by a low-mid murk that swallows some of the detail.

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Lost in Kyiv: We're All Going To Be Fine

Marvin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lost in Kyiv: 3/5

The Parisian instrumental crew's Pelagic debut threads synths through cinematic post-metal, seven wordless tracks that swing from ambient calm into fuzzed catharsis. Polished and genuinely widescreen, tripped up only when the loudest walls overcompress.

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Oath: Unteach

Marvin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Oath: 3/5

An Athens trio conjure seven tracks of warm, occult 70s doom on their debut, all Baphomet swagger and fuzzed-out riff worship recorded raw and dynamic on purpose. A genuinely characterful throwback, dense in a couple of spots but proud of its garage soul.

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Walk Through Fire: Till Aska

Marvin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Walk Through Fire: 4/5

Five tracks of crushing, cavernous Swedish sludge-doom that treat the impenetrable wall not as a flaw but as the whole point. Monolithic, oppressive and utterly committed, a record that means to bury you and does.

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Giant Lungs: Praise the Laze

Marvin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Giant Lungs: 3/5

An Augsburg trio's second album pushes their desert-stoner into doomier, fuzzier, weirder places across seven tracks. Full of grit and a couple of genuinely breathing highlights, dragged down when the master clamps the life out of the heavier songs.

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Monsternaut: Approaching Doom

Marvin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Monsternaut: 3/5

A Finnish trio roll ten tracks of B-movie stoner-doom off the analog tape, monster-truck riffs and all. Great fun and full of grit, let down by a record that can't decide between raw live warmth and modern brickwall loudness.

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Void of Sleep: The Abyss into which We All Have to Stare

Marvin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Void of Sleep: 3/5

Ravenna's progressive sludge veterans stare into a long, synth-laced abyss, seven tracks that swing from ambient hush to modern crushing weight. Ambitious and atmospheric, at its best in the quiet and the precise, undercut when the heaviness overcompresses.

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Grey Czar: Euarthropodia

Marvin — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Grey Czar: 3/5

A Salzburg outfit stages the rise and fall of an insect civilisation across nine theatrical prog tracks, three voices deep and full of ideas. Ambitious and frequently thrilling, weighed down only when the arrangements pile up faster than the mix can hold them.

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Lord Elephant: Ultra Soul

Marvin — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lord Elephant: 3/5

Florence's instrumental power trio pour seven tracks of cavernous, fuzz-soaked psych-doom into a raw analog room, all riff and atmosphere and no vocals. Genuinely immersive when it opens up, heavy on the low-end murk when it doesn't.

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PIECE: Rambler's Axe

Marvin — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

PIECE: 3/5

Berlin sludge merchants swing an eight-track slab of down-tuned, fantasy-soaked filth in the Crowbar and Eyehategod lineage. Crushingly heavy and mean, at its best when the density leaves room to breathe rather than flattening everything at once.

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Hidas: A Sense of Impending Doom

Marvin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hidas: 3/5

A Munich trio's instrumental doom debut lives up to its title, six tracks of eclipse-black riff worship recorded raw enough to feel like the ceiling's coming down. All mood and weight, if short on light and air.

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Sound of Smoke: Mirage

Marvin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sound of Smoke: 3/5

The Freiburg quartet's third album chases a desert mirage across nine tracks of fuzz, synth and soul, Isabelle Bapté's voice at the centre. At its warm, analog best it's a genuine trip, undercut by a handful of over-polished detours.

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The Red Sea: Le Monde

Marvin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Red Sea: 3/5

An anonymous Le Havre project maps a blackgaze record onto the Major Arcana, seven tarot cards of hush and fury building toward the world. The dynamic writing is gripping, the harsh production sometimes swallows its own payoff.

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Bong Voyage: Hedonistic Hard Rock

Marvin — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Bong Voyage: 3/5

An Oslo five-piece deliver exactly what the title promises, nine tracks of loud, dumb, gloriously unserious party rock. Riotous fun when it keeps the vintage live grit, less so when the loudness-war master flattens it into a wall.

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Ill Tidings: Seeds of True Rebirth

Marvin — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ill Tidings: 3/5

The Viennese trio's third album is cold, apocalyptic black metal with a ritual undertow, sung in a German-English mix and drawn in bleak cosmic strokes. Idiomatically raw and often gripping, though a fatiguing master flattens some of its best moments.

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The Birch: Vicious Mind

Marvin — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Birch: 4/5

A Quedlinburg power trio's second LP splits cleanly down the middle, a darker, fuzz-caked front half loosening into pure rock'n'roll, all of it tracked with a warm, dynamic analog hand that refuses the loudness war. Heavy psych with real character.

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Abysmal Grief: Taetra Philosophia

Marvin — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Abysmal Grief: 3/5

Three decades into their funeral-organ obsession, the Genoese occultists deliver another cavernous slab of horror-doom, all Latin liturgy, synth fog and shrouded corpses. The atmosphere is total, the murk sometimes more than the songs can carry.

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Mirkwood Spiders: The Black Mountain Ritual

Marvin — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mirkwood Spiders: 3/5

A fully DIY prog-stoner-doom record from Chur that trades polish for air, swinging between earthy fuzz, fantasy epics and a genuinely lovely acoustic centrepiece. Warm, varied and refreshingly uncompressed, tripped up only by the odd murky low end.

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Palm Desert: Rays Of The Gold And Grays

Marvin — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Palm Desert: 3/5

Wrocław desert-rock lifers resurface with a fuzz-caked, rehearsal-room-warm set of riffs that sound like they were tracked live and loud. When the dynamics swing it's a joy, when the fuzz swallows everything it turns to mud.

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A Ghost In Rags: Solfatara

Marvin — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A Ghost In Rags: 4/5

Five tracks of largely instrumental, landscape-driven post-metal from Freiburg, swinging from ambient hush into vast cinematic walls. Dynamically sophisticated and immersive, with the closer a genuine standout, undercut only by an over-hot master on a couple of tracks.

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Cornucopia: Songs for Unfortunate Times

Marvin — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Cornucopia: 3/5

Eight tracks of raw, fuzz-drenched sludge and noise rock from France, harsher and dirtier than the doom tag suggests. Committed, live-sounding and full of grit, but a low-mid murk runs through the whole record.

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Qlesaar: Stratorian Oracle

Marvin — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Qlesaar: 3/5

A Lucerne stoner "supergroup" whose debut pushes desert roots into heavier, more atmospheric territory, clean and screamed vocals over sludge-post-metal walls. Strong writing and dynamics, muddied by a congested low end.

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BOG: Incubant

Marvin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

BOG: 4/5

A Ghent debut steeped in the Consouling-and-Amenra tradition, five tracks of atmospheric post-metal that swing from near-silent ambient troughs into cavernous walls. Immersive and dynamically assured, muddied only when the walls come down.

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L'Ira del Baccano: The Praise of Folly

Marvin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

L'Ira del Baccano: 3/5

The Roman instrumental crew's fifth album is a warm, hypnotic hour of doomdelic space-prog built on an Erasmus concept and recorded live in one take. Immersive at its best, undercut by a dull mix and a couple of static stretches.

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Mientras las Abejas Duermen: MLAD

Marvin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mientras las Abejas Duermen: 3/5

An Andalusian debut that weaves flamenco-tinged acoustics and hand percussion into cinematic, cavernous post-metal. Distinctive and dynamically rich, held back by a warm but dull, low-mid-heavy mix.

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Eleanore: Between Here And Anywhere

Marvin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Eleanore: 3/5

Desert rock from the North Sea coast. The Emden trio's second album is warm, organic, unhurried stoner rock cut with real dynamics and a voice that sits inside the room, familiar terrain travelled well.

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Kröwnn: Santa Somnia

Marvin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Kröwnn: 3/5

Venetian sludge-doom drenched in dark fantasy and video-game dread. Raw, filthy and ritual, Santa Somnia is heaviest when it lets a synth-lit intro breathe before the wall comes down, undercut by a dense, one-texture mix.

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Mount Palatine: Wormholy World

Marvin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mount Palatine: 4/5

Six long tracks of cinematic, cavernous atmospheric post-metal from Helsinki, built on near-silent hush erupting into vast walls. Immersive and genuinely dynamic, with only a congested midrange in the heaviest peaks holding it back.

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New Mexican Doom Cult: Ziggurat

Marvin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New Mexican Doom Cult: 3/5

Despite the name, this occult doom cult hails from Gävle, Sweden. Ziggurat is a varied, theatrical trip through stoner doom, epic doom and drone, carried by a genuinely characterful clean voice and let down only by an uneven production.

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Queen(ares): Choices

Marvin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Queen(ares): 4/5

A cinematic, emotionally heavy post-metal record from northern France, built on huge quiet-loud swings, screamed dread against spacious clean troughs. Ambitious and cohesive, with only a congested low end in the densest walls holding it back.

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Stargo: Violet Skies

Marvin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Stargo: 3/5

The Dortmund band's fourth album trades their stoner roots for a dense, modern, heavily processed heaviness, shouts against clean layers, walls of gated fuzz. Good songs with a real dynamic instinct, buried under a loud, sterile production.

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Angellore: Nocturnes

Marvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Angellore: 4/5

The French gothic doom act's fourth album is a cinematic, melancholy sweep of atmospheric death-doom, neofolk hush and orchestral weight, ethereal cleans against deep growls. Ambitious and frequently gorgeous, with a couple of denser missteps.

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Nedgravd: Ascension

Marvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Nedgravd: 3/5

A raw, cavernous debut of occult death-doom from Oslo, filthy by design and drenched in cellar reverb. The murk is the whole point, and the dread is real, even if one mode of it runs a little long.

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Vansind: Hævnen

Marvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Vansind: 3/5

Danish folk-metal sung in the saga tradition, harsh verses against soaring clean folk choruses, acoustic passages opening into Scandinavian melodic-death walls. Strong songs and a great vocal contrast, flattened by a loud, fatiguing modern master.

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Mädätys: Kuoleman ulottuvuudet

Marvin — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mädätys: 3/5

A debut full-length of raw, old-school Finnish death-doom, downtuned and drowned in fuzz. The murk is the tradition here, and the atmosphere is genuinely crushing, even if a couple of tracks stay flat where the best ones breathe.

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Mirror of Deception: Transience

Marvin — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mirror of Deception: 4/5

Three decades in, the German doom veterans push their sound somewhere new, melodic, atmospheric, folk-touched, and for the first time ever using guttural vocals. A mature, sombre, mostly beautifully realised record from a band still willing to risk.

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Pilori: Sans Adieu

Marvin — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Pilori: 3/5

Ten tracks of blackened crust from Rouen, sung entirely in French and swinging from grinding hardcore fury into dark ambient, post-black and a warped Bashung cover. Relentless to a fault, but the ambition and the best moments are real.

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Gjenferd: Black Smoke Rising

Marvin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gjenferd: 4/5

Eleven tracks of atmospheric stoner-doom out of Bergen, ranging from warm, dynamic heaviness to hushed acoustic and orchestral interludes. Uneven in places, but the peaks are genuinely strong and the ambition is real.

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Glowsun: NOVÆ

Marvin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Glowsun: 3/5

The long-running French psych-doom trio resurface with their darkest record, six tracks of crushing, cinematic sludge and drone. The atmosphere is immense and the dynamics breathe, but a heavily low-mid-loaded mix smears the detail.

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Gom Jabbar: Gom Jabbar

Marvin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gom Jabbar: 3/5

A Game Boy and a distorted guitar walk into late-capitalist hell. The Italian duo's copyleft debut is eight tracks of low-resolution violence, brickwalled by design, and it is the kind of genre-collision that has no business working as well as it does.

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Kalamata: Zenosyne

Marvin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Kalamata: 4/5

The Hildesheim instrumental trio's third album turns years of touring, lineup changes and personal crises into a warm, cinematic record built on restraint. Five tracks that read as one sentence, "There Is No Coming Back," and a band that learned to let fragile melodies breathe.

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Motsus: Atlas

Marvin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Motsus: 3/5

A mostly instrumental Belgian trio dealing in dirty, lo-fi sludge and drone. When Atlas breaks its own walls it hits hard, but too many tracks settle into a static, low-end haze that wears thin.

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Aeon Temple: Resurfaced

Marvin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Aeon Temple: 3/5

Five long tracks of atmospheric doom from Essen that swing from sacral hush to hypnotic wall, dynamics left wide open. Ambitious and immersive, held back by a mix that turns to murk when the heaviest passages crash in.

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Capacopter: Capacopter

Marvin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Capacopter: 3/5

A self-released debut from Mannheim that sounds like it was cut live on a sweaty stage. Eight tracks of fuzzed, dust-dry stoner rock that breathe more than most, rough around the edges in ways that mostly suit them.

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The Dharma Chain: Some Kind Of Pure State

Marvin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Dharma Chain: 4/5

Berlin via Byron Bay, recorded live over ten days at Funkhaus. The Dharma Chain's second album pours krautrock motorik, shoegaze haze and post-punk gloom into one long reverb-soaked rush, and the dynamics mostly survive the density.

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Gli Alberi: Maturafine

Marvin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gli Alberi: 3/5

A Turin band's third album, a desert-themed journey through atmospheric post-metal, blackgaze and noise, ethereal female vocals set against the growls. Ambitious and absorbing, pushed a touch hard in the loud bursts.

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Mossystone: Paysages Tristes

Marvin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mossystone: 3/5

A French one-man atmospheric/depressive black metal debut, crushing noise walls breaking into ambient hush and clean-guitar grief. Genuinely affecting, dulled by a lo-fi, over-compressed master.

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Neurosis: An Undying Love for a Burning World

Marvin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Neurosis: 4/5

A special, outside our usual EU-underground focus. The architects of atmospheric post-metal return after a decade with Aaron Turner as a new full member and an album about uprooting and the last light. Monumental dynamics, a few production scuffs.

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Verdun: Abyssal Womb

Marvin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Verdun: 3/5

A long-running Montpellier crew turn dissonant and blackened, seven tracks of punishing blackened sludge-doom shot through with atmospheric clean breaks. Heavy and cinematic, undercut by a loud, dense master.

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Andvara: Midnight Mysticism

Marvin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Andvara: 3/5

A Stockholm trio's atmospheric post-black metal, bookended by acoustic neofolk and steeped in Norse folklore. Warm, dynamic and genuinely absorbing, blurred only by a muddy low end and a couple of flatter stretches.

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Double Horse: Violent Sessions

Marvin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Double Horse: 3/5

A Valencia occult-doom outfit caught live and unfiltered, six tracks of dirty single-take filth steeped in horror-film dread. Real sweat and atmosphere, muddied by the live low end. A raw document, not a polished statement.

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Taihr: Allicanto

Marvin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Taihr: 3/5

A Cologne septet with Chilean roots and a female voice out front, weaving funky prog-crossover from jazz, math-rock and electronics. Distinctive and sharply played, dulled only by a radio-loud, over-compressed master.

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In Vespro: Where Silence Used To Sleep

Marvin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In Vespro: 3/5

A Roman debut of slow, cyclical death-doom in the early-Katatonia mould, hypnotic and grief-soaked. Atmosphere to spare, held back by a brickwalled master that never lets the gloom breathe.

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Smokemaster: In the Temple

Marvin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Smokemaster: 3/5

A Cologne psych outfit's warm, dynamically produced third album, roaming from heavy psych through shoegaze, synth-rock and post-punk. Easy to get lost in, if a touch unfocused, and a welcome break from the loudness war.

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Starless Void: Mors Certa, Hora Incerta

Marvin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Starless Void: 3/5

An Upper-Silesian death-doom debut steeped in the region's industrial gloom, deep growls trading off with spectral female vocals. Heavy, atmospheric and occult, blurred only by a muddy low-mid mix.

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HUM: three

Marvin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

HUM: 3/5

A Frankfurt trio's restless follow-up to their debut, heavy psych that refuses to sit still and keeps mutating into ambient, industrial and pure noise. Brave and dynamic, sometimes to the point of fragmentation.

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Litúrgia: I

Marvin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Litúrgia: 3/5

A Catalan debut of raw, ritual epic doom sung entirely in Catalan, six tracks drawn from local myth and the legend of Comte Arnau. Atmospheric and distinctive, held back by a muddy, uneven mix.

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Plaindrifter: Gestalt

Marvin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Plaindrifter: 3/5

A Ruhrgebiet trio's second album, desert-prog stoner that keeps reaching for the horizon. Atmospheric, dynamic and ambitious, let down only by a couple of tracks where the loudness and the drum sheen flatten the magic.

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Green Desert Water: Eerie Meadows

Marvin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Green Desert Water: 3/5

An Asturian power trio's latest, a stoner record about mist, ancient woods and the cycles of life. Earthy, grunge-flecked and strongest when the master lets it breathe. A couple of squashed tracks are the only real drag.

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Leviathan Rising: King in Yellow

Marvin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Leviathan Rising: 3/5

German cosmic-horror metal from Passau, nine tracks dragging Carcosa down to the bottom of the sea. Atmospheric post-metal weight with clean and screamed voices, ambitious and heavy, undercut by an uneven master.

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Warning: Rituals of Shame

Marvin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Warning: 4/5

Twenty years after Watching from a Distance, Patrick Walker resurrects Warning for five long songs about guilt, longing and love. Warm, dynamic, devastatingly heavy-hearted doom. The comeback lives up to the wait.

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Gold Spire: Steps into Shadow

Marvin — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gold Spire: 4/5

Swedish avant death-doom from the ashes of Usurpress, eight tracks where saxophone and flute drift through cathedral-deep riffing. Heavy, cinematic, strange, and produced with rare warmth. A genuine hidden gem.

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Red Sun: Songs from Hidden Places

Marvin — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Red Sun: 4/5

An Italian psych-stoner trio's fourth album, and a leap. The arrival of a singer turns their instrumental desert rock into a warm, theremin-haunted, occult-psychedelic journey. Distinctive, dynamic, and a real grower.

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Undrowned: Universe

Marvin — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Undrowned: 3/5

A female-fronted German melodic death-doom record, nine tracks of weeping leads over mid-paced weight. Solid and heartfelt, held back by a loud, compressed modern master.

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Cenozoa: Manta Hymns

Marvin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Cenozoa: 3/5

A Greek one-man post-metal project raging at the screen age, eleven tracks of fuzz-bass dystopia where doom weight meets sludge grime. Heavy and pointed, a touch buried by its own loud master.

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Numen: Erre

Marvin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Numen: 3/5

Basque pagan black metal sung entirely in euskera, five tracks summoning the 17th-century witch trials into glacial, atmospheric fury. Veterans with a story to tell, if a loud master clips its wings.

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Tidal Wave: Volume Tree

Marvin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tidal Wave: 3/5

Swedish stoner rock at its heaviest yet, eight tracks of Sabbath worship roughed up with grunge and a prog streak. Warm and riff-sure, best where the mix stays out of its own way.

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Aghalmar: Ruin

Marvin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Aghalmar: 3/5

A German solo debut of atmospheric post-black metal, seven tracks that swing from cavernous quiet to wall-of-sound dread. Immersive and promising, if the loud master muddies its heaviest moments.

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Galibot: Catabase

Marvin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Galibot: 3/5

French melodic black metal that mines its hometown's coal history for a concept, eleven tracks of Germinal-grim atmosphere and Scandi-bright tremolo. Strong songs and a striking voice, pressed a little flat by a loud master.

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PallBear: Grief Is Love

Marvin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

PallBear: 3/5

A one-man doom record from Oxford that wears its grief openly, five tracks of warm, fuzzed, low-slung heaviness about loss as a kind of love. DIY to the bone, and better for it.

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Acid Row: Magic

Marvin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Acid Row: 3/5

Prague garage stoner-doom with a heavy-psych streak and a concept about the illusion of power. Nine tracks of fuzz, murk and ritual, raw as a basement and proud of it.

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El Altar del Holocausto: Ecos

Marvin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

El Altar del Holocausto: 3/5

Spanish instrumental post-doom that swings between cathedral-quiet atmosphere and crushing walls, cello and clean delay set against fuzz. Evocative when it is patient, muddy when it is heavy.

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Solar Mantra: State of Joyful Lightness

Marvin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Solar Mantra: 3/5

Roman stoner rock with a warm, rehearsal-room glow, ten tracks of fuzzed riffs and growling bass that prize groove over gloss. Loose, earthy, and a welcome break from the loudness wars.

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Afterwise: Disintegration

Marvin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Afterwise: 3/5

An Athens instrumental post-metal debut, and the rare 2026 heavy record that actually breathes. Six cinematic tracks of cathedral reverb, patient builds and dynamics left blissfully uncrushed.

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Fyrnask: Íosir

Marvin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fyrnask: 3/5

A long-running German black metal project returns on Ván with ten tracks of dense, ice-cold atmosphere, tremolo walls and ambient dread built into one immersive grey mass. Heavy on mood, heavier still on the master.

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Soulburn: Quantifying Cosmic Doom

Marvin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Soulburn: 3/5

Dutch veterans risen from the ashes of Asphyx return with their fifth, eleven tracks of blackened death-doom aimed squarely at the void. Crushing and well-played, if mixed louder than it needs to be.

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Alunah & Samavayo: Embers of Belief

Marvin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Alunah & Samavayo: 3/5

A split that pairs two decades-deep heavy bands, Birmingham doom from Alunah and Berlin's oriental-tinged stoner rock from Samavayo. Uneven by nature, but Samavayo's half is worth the price on its own.

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Arroganz: Death Doom Punks

Marvin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Arroganz: 3/5

German extreme-metal veterans on their seventh album, a relentless slab of death, black, doom and thrash welded to a crust-punk snarl. Crushing and precise, if exhausting at full length.

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King Potenaz: Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 2

Marvin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

King Potenaz: 3/5

Italian occult stoner-doom that records like a ritual held in a cave, four downtuned, fuzz-caked tracks of desert mysticism and low-end murk. Heavy, hypnotic, and gloriously filthy.

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In a Forest Dark: To a God Unknown

Marvin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In a Forest Dark: 3/5

A Portuguese solo project turns Steinbeck into blackened gothic doom, dense melancholy synths and buried growls building one long grey fog. Atmosphere over clarity, and on its best tracks that trade pays off.

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Mörkekraft: Fragments

Marvin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mörkekraft: 3/5

A Norwegian debut that calls itself a depressed Thin Lizzy and sounds caught between earthy stoner rock and polished modern alt-metal. Fragments is best when it loosens up and worst when it chases the big loud chorus.

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Primal Cult: Dark Passage

Marvin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Primal Cult: 3/5

Greek atmospheric black metal built around a mythic sea-voyage, all Hellenic melody and cinematic quiet-loud drama. Dark Passage has the songs and the sweep, even when the mix keeps the vocals stranded on top of it.

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Crobu: More Than This

Marvin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Crobu: 3/5

A Sardinian debut that channels the swamp sludge of Down and Crowbar through a post-metal lens. Eight tracks of downtuned, dry, loud heaviness that hit hardest when they let a riff breathe.

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Food for the Wyrm: A Wicked Huntsman

Marvin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Food for the Wyrm: 3/5

A debut that turns traditional and original folk songs into a record about transmuting trauma, threading dark Americana and ritual folk through doom, drone and black metal. Strange, sincere, and unlike almost anything else this year.

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Gravvålnad: Dreams of Evernight

Marvin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gravvålnad: 3/5

A one-man Swedish project that builds a frozen, synth-forged world out of seven tracks of atmospheric black metal, more interested in dread and dungeon-cold atmosphere than in clean riffs.

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Blüdwyrm: The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance

Marvin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Blüdwyrm: 3/5

A debut EP from a young Bournemouth trio that buries everything, the vocals, the riffs, the listener, under a fuzz wall thick enough to chew. Eighteen minutes of cavernous sludge-doom that knows exactly how ugly it wants to be.

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Junon: The Golden Citadel of the Astral Sphere

Marvin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Junon: 4/5

A German avant-black metal project that builds its citadel out of ritual choirs, drone, and crescendos that run past twenty minutes. Four tracks that swing from near-silence to crushing density and treat both as sacred.

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Together to the Stars: Iridescence

Marvin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Together to the Stars: 3/5

Stockholm post-black that swings between weightless, glittering calm and a wall of sound mixed loud enough to bruise. Iridescence has the songs and the atmosphere, it just keeps its thumb on the loudness the whole way.

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Aetere: Théogonie

Marvin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Aetere: 3/5

A French doomgaze debut where the heaviness comes from synthesizer drones, not guitars. Six tracks of cavernous, low-end murk and buried ethereal vocals, an album that asks you to take its fog as the point rather than the flaw.

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Mandy Manala: Something Wicked

Marvin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mandy Manala: 3/5

Female-fronted Finnish occult hard rock that pulls from Ghost and Bathory as easily as Fleetwood Mac and ABBA. The second album from the Vaasa five-piece is catchy and confident, with a modern loud master as the steady trade-off.

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Urzah: A Tranquil Void

Marvin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Urzah: 3/5

The Bath progressive-sludge band's second album reaches wide, from acoustic passages and cello to a twelve-minute closer. The writing has the ambition to match, and a very hot master is the one thing holding it back.

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Chullachaqui: Epiphanic Perdition

Marvin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Chullachaqui: 3/5

A solo debut built from material that didn't fit another band. Matt Cooper of Vulgaris plays nearly everything on this London post/doom/sludge record, six tracks that run from a 42-second fragment to a fifteen-minute crawl, raw and cavernous by design.

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Dead Void: Cranial Devastation

Marvin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Dead Void: 3/5

Copenhagen death/doom recorded live in the studio, the way the filthiest end of the genre likes it. The second Dead Void album ends on a Danish-language cover of an Adrian Borland song, and the whole thing sounds like it was conjured in a cave.

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Oh Hiroshima: And The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter

Marvin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Oh Hiroshima: 4/5

The Swedish post-rock band's new album on Pelagic is the rare loud record that keeps its dynamics. Eight tracks of cinematic quiet-to-wall post-rock where the production lets the contrast actually land instead of flattening it.

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Brüle: Beltane

Marvin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Brüle: 3/5

The second album from a Perpignan occult-doom trio, sung in French and English and built around pagan fire and Thelemic freedom. The riffs and atmosphere are real; a relentlessly loud, machine-tight production keeps the doom from landing its full weight.

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Crimson Roots: Open Roads

Marvin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Crimson Roots: 3/5

The Nuremberg five-piece's debut is a concept record about a traveler in motion, carried by Ina Salaj's clean, expressive voice. The songwriting breathes; the question is whether a production this polished serves a band whose tags read blues rock and retro soul.

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Go Mahhh: Doppelgänger

Marvin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Go Mahhh: 3/5

An international quartet's Berlin debut that earns its title: eight tracks, each wearing a different face, from dusty stoner haze to noise-rock to a tabla-driven psych workout. Raw, analog and dynamic in a way most debuts aren't.

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Hanry: What Came From Silence

Marvin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hanry: 3/5

Written through a long Breton winter, the debut full-length from this six-piece French post-rock collective lands on Pelagic Records. Eight cinematic instrumentals that keep migrating from guitar-driven post-rock toward something almost electronic, with the loud modern master as the steady trade-off.

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Sad Whisperings: The Hermit

Marvin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sad Whisperings: 3/5

The first full-length in thirty years from one of Holland's formative death-doom bands. Eight tracks built around isolation, released on Vidar Records, with a modern-loud production that doesn't quite match the patience the songwriting wants.

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The Dharma Chain: Some Kind Of Pure State

Marvin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Dharma Chain: 3/5

A preview of the second album from this Australian-born, Berlin-based band, recorded at Funkhaus by Jonathan Dreyfus and out 5 June via Spinda Records. The two advance singles trace the album's range, from atmospheric dual-voice shoegaze to a knurrig, fuzz-bass motorik pulse.

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The Fifth Alliance: Stenahoria

Marvin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Fifth Alliance: 3/5

A new vocalist, five long tracks, and a Greek word for the kind of distress that has no edges. Stenahoria is the fourth album from this Breda blackened-doom outfit on Tartarus Records, and the pivot to Natalya at the microphone is the record's defining move.

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Tooms: Karst

Marvin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tooms: 3/5

An Irish sludge record where the quietest minute carries the album. Karst is the new full-length from the Limerick trio, mixed by Matt Bayles and mastered by Chris Fielding, with an acoustic interlude that does the heaviest lifting on the whole thing.

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Elder: Through Zero

Marvin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elder: 3/5

Two decades and seven albums in, the quartet keep moving away from the heavy psych they started in. Through Zero is the most produced, most synth-saturated Elder record yet, and the loud master and the compositions pull against each other in ways the early albums never did.

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Erdve: Epigrama

Marvin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Erdve: 3/5

Lithuania's most architectural extreme band return with their third Season of Mist album. Self-produced, self-mixed, self-mastered by the band, Epigrama is the loudest, most clinically engineered Erdve record yet, and the dissonant-hardcore identity is intact even as the master crushes the air out of it.

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Monolord: Neverending

Marvin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Monolord: 3/5

Sylvia Massy at the desk, eight tracks, two halves. The fifth Monolord album splits cleanly between the heavily-mastered modern doom on the front and an analog, dynamic warmth on the back, and the two sides do not sound like the same record.

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Mother Bear: Orm 2

Marvin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mother Bear: 3/5

Slow music for slow minds, sophomore edition. The Dortmund stoner-doom trio's second album doubles down on the Zamonian concept and on a cave-room aesthetic that buries the kick, mumpfs the bass and leaves the songs to do most of the talking.

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Sealess: Aura

Marvin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sealess: 3/5

A doom record that lives between genres and refuses the loudness war. Recorded at Electric Witch Mountain in Wrocław and mastered by Haldor Grünberg, the new Sealess album sits somewhere between melancholic doom, cold wave and post-rock, with the production patient enough to let it.

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Tales of Mike: Human

Marvin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tales of Mike: 3/5

An epic-heavy debut album from a German solo project born out of personal loss, with cross-continental production and a vocalist in the King Diamond and Halford falsetto tradition. Catching up with last October's release on the occasion of its new vinyl edition.

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AYD: AYD

Marvin — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AYD: 3/5

Four tracks, an hour, one room that sounds like a cave. The self-titled debut from this Slovenian sludge/doom/post-metal band out of Gornja Radgona builds its drama out of long hypnotic ascents and the walls of sound they collapse into.

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Consecration: Exanimis

Marvin — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Consecration: 3/5

A first look at the fourth Consecration album, due on Nuclear Winter Records, judged from its two advance singles. The Norwich death/doom veterans hand the desk to Greg Chandler and come back sounding like a wall of dirt with the lights off.

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Godthrymm: Projections

Marvin — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Godthrymm: 3/5

The Yorkshire doom band close their Visions Trilogy with a third album that brings Aaron Stainthorpe back to the microphone for one track. The songs carry the weight of a band with My Dying Bride and Anathema in their bloodline, but a loud modern master keeps getting in the way.

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Downfall of Nur: And the Firmament Will Burn to Quench the Pain of this Earth

Marvin — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Downfall of Nur: 4/5

Sardinian atmospheric black metal solo project's first album in a decade, on Avantgarde Music. Seven tracks, eighty minutes, a profound reflection on the ancestral memory of Sardinia, mastered by Gabriele Gramaglia.

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Fuzzrider: Desert Boogie

Marvin — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fuzzrider: 3/5

Athens fuzz-and-dirty-blues trio's new album -- nine tracks of raw, mid-forward stoner-blues recorded with a deliberate live feel and no loudness-chasing polish.

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Hypnosaur: Afterlife

Marvin — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hypnosaur: 3/5

Polish stoner/rock'n'roll quartet's second album, recorded at Sound of Records with Haldor Grünberg -- nine tracks of clean, modern-mixed heavy rock with synth-led bridges and a polished contemporary production.

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Inherits the Void: The Silent Abscission

Marvin — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Inherits the Void: 3/5

A preview of the fourth Inherits the Void album, due June 19 on Avantgarde Music. AS's French atmospheric black metal project turns to a concept of erasure and cosmic implosion across eight visions, in its cleanest and most modern-produced form yet.

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Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell: The Trouble With The Shovell

Marvin — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell: 3/5

Hastings heavy-rock trio's fifth album -- seven years since the last one. Nine tracks of unrepentant '70s-leaning hard-rock- with-fuzz on Rise Above Records, recorded without modern polish and committed to the same grease-rock vocabulary they've worked since 2008.

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Endless Floods: PASSAGES

Marvin — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Endless Floods: 4/5

Bordeaux post-heavy trio's sixth album -- four long-form pieces stretching across 38 minutes, with saxophone, French vocals, and the kind of extreme dynamic contrast between intimate acoustic passages and dense fuzz walls that the band have spent six records refining.

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Khybernaut: Tales of Ashes and Delusion

Marvin — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Khybernaut: 3/5

Berlin stoner-metal quartet's debut LP -- six tracks recorded at Castalian Spring studios, rough clean vocals over fuzz-saturated riffs, atmospheric intros giving way to dense walls of sound.

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Deliverance: The Voyager Golden Banquet

Marvin — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Deliverance: 4/5

French avant-garde sludge/black/psych act's new album on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre -- eight tracks, forty-three minutes, the band's black-metal/sludge DNA confronted with post-rock, Floydian psychedelia and electronic textures.

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Lorn: Searing Blood

Marvin — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lorn: 3/5

Italian atmospheric/raw black metal solo project's fourth album on I, Voidhanger Records -- six tracks, written and performed by Radok in Prali, returning to genre tradition after eight years away from the LP format.

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Sloth: Slothmachine

Marvin — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sloth: 3/5

Brno stoner/heavy-psych quartet's debut LP -- six tracks of brutal fuzz on Kabinet Records, recorded at Golden Hive Studio, built for lovers of speaker-blowing low-end weight.

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Jesus Crustus: El Crustadore

Marvin — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jesus Crustus: 3/5

Berlin crust-punk-into-grindcore duo's new album: fifteen tracks across thirty-two minutes, recorded at Noir Surge Studio, guest vocals from Tina and Harmony Dies, exactly the kind of dirty short-form chaos the genre lives on.

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Sauvageoness: A Maze Deep In

Marvin — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sauvageoness: 4/5

Swiss solo project's debut LP -- fourteen tracks of 'doomed industrial dream pop' mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Soft Kill) at Atomic Garden. Indie noise, shoegaze, post-punk and the raw weight of black metal, threaded together.

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The Space Huns: Sunny Road

Marvin — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Space Huns: 3/5

Hungarian instrumental stoner trio's new LP on Minimal Bogart Records, six tracks of improvised jams recorded, mixed and mastered at Rossz Records -- and explicitly without any AI-generated content.

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Buio Dentro: Aurora

Marvin — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Buio Dentro: 3/5

Italian post-metal/noise project, four long-form pieces totalling forty-seven minutes. Recorded between Rome and Perugia, mastered at Hombrelobo Studio, leaning hard into lo-fi atmosphere and drone.

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Goddess: Ritual of the Cloven Hoof

Marvin — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Goddess: 4/5

Reborn from the ashes of Goatess after a founding-member departure, the Swedish doom quartet's first record under the new name lands on Majestic Mountain. Six tracks, thirty-seven minutes, recorded by Joona Hassinen at Studio Underjord.

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Hex A.D.: Surgical Cuts in the Cosmos

Marvin — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hex A.D.: 3/5

Norwegian doom-prog veterans' new album, three years after Delightful Sharp Edges. Seven tracks spanning prog rock, classic heavy metal, stoner-rock fuzz and old-school doom, all on Apollon Records.

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Faded Remembrance: The Blessing Of Downfall

Marvin — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Faded Remembrance: 3/5

Hungarian one-man atmospheric doom project, third album on Bitume Prods. Nine tracks of slow doom built around trumpet, trombone and synthesizer -- a Pan-Thy-Monium reference made flesh.

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Impure Wilhelmina: Le Sanglot

Marvin — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Impure Wilhelmina: 4/5

Thirty years into the Geneva quartet's progressive-dark catalogue, their most radical record yet -- nine tracks of French- language post-hardcore, mastered by Magnus Lindberg of Cult of Luna.

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Sons of Node: Consequence of Abundance

Marvin — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sons of Node: 3/5

Utrecht sludge band's second LP. Eight tracks across forty-eight minutes, recorded with Abel Jansma and mastered by Tim de Gieter, with a two-minute instrumental interlude bracketing the album's long-form centrepiece.

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The Dead At Sea: III

Marvin — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Dead At Sea: 3/5

Birmingham post-rock-into-doom project's third album. Five instrumental tracks rooted in the isolation of North Sentinel Island, mastered by Jack Chuter.

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Abyssian: Let Me Die Under the Stars

Marvin — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Abyssian: 3/5

Italian Atlantean dark-doom collective's third album, on Black Widow Records. Six pieces of sumerian creation mythology, fretless bass and gothic baritone, closing on a Roxy Music cover.

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Manøver: Insurrection

Marvin — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Manøver: 3/5

Münster crust/sludge three-piece's new LP. Nine tracks, forty minutes of antifascist d-beat and dystopian doom, recorded by Role at Tonmeisterei, vinyl on Fucking Kill Records.

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Red Swamp: Peace and Hate

Marvin — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Red Swamp: 3/5

Budapest groove-metal four-piece's fourth LP, leaving the stoner phase behind for tighter modern-metal songwriting. Eight tracks, two in Hungarian, sax and trumpet guest appearances.

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Damask: Three Times Ten

Marvin — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Damask: 3/5

Debut album from the Polish project Damask, fronted by Weno Winter of Sautrus. Eight tracks that move between acoustic intimacy and doom walls, built on twenty years of accumulated ideas.

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Dromos: Failing Light

Marvin — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Dromos: 4/5

London funeral-doom quartet's debut LP, recorded in five years of dark London winters. Three pieces, forty-six minutes, mixed by Greg Chandler of Esoteric and mastered by James Plotkin. The cinematic patience the genre rewards, executed by people who know it.

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Void Sinker: Cycle

Marvin — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Void Sinker: 3/5

Salerno one-man instrumental project, second release of 2026. Five tracks across fifty-three minutes of low-tuned caveman riffs, drone, and the kind of hypnotic monotony the genre lives on.

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Godes Yrre: Feelings Can Burn You

Marvin — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Godes Yrre: 3/5

A preview of the fifth Godes Yrre album, due June 26 on Bitume Prods. Oliva's one-man Swiss doom project gathers three 2024 EPs into a sixty-minute whole, with a guest soloist on every track.

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Belzebong: The End Is High

Marvin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Belzebong: 4/5

Their first new full-length in seven years. Four tracks of Kielce stoner-doom, instrumental save for the buried shouts and the smoke samples, recorded at Satanic Audio and released on Heavy Psych Sounds.

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Bismut: Matsutake

Marvin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Bismut: 4/5

Their fourth full-length, named after Anna Tsing's book on the mushroom that grows in capitalist ruins. Recorded live at Galloway Studio, six instrumental-leaning tracks of progressive heavy psych from the Nijmegen trio.

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Black Toaster: Astrobird

Marvin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Black Toaster: 3/5

Bern stoner trio's first studio album. Six tracks of high-energy Motörhead-leaning rock'n'roll with stoner weight, self-released and self-produced at Mazzive Sound Productions.

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Oreyeon: The Grotesque Within

Marvin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Oreyeon: 4/5

Italian heavy-psych quartet's fourth album, inspired by the pessimist horror of Thomas Ligotti. Seven tracks of stoner-doom with prog architecture, mastered by James Plotkin, released on Heavy Psych Sounds.

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The Cosmic Dead: Beyond The Beyond

Marvin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Cosmic Dead: 4/5

Tenth studio album from the Glasgow space-rock collective. Four tracks, forty-one minutes, bass and drums and fiddle and synth, all wah-soaked, phasers set to destroy.

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Yeast Machine: Bad Milk

Marvin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Yeast Machine: 3/5

Tübingen fuzz-trio gone full-album for the first time. Ten tracks that hop between grunge weight, stoner-rock fuzz and patient psychedelic stretches, with the kind of widescreen contrast between calm and eruption that Yeast Machine seem to have decided is their argument.

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Turpentine Valley: Veuel -- Revisited

Marvin — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Turpentine Valley: 4/5

Follow-up to our February pre-release piece. Ten tracks, properly heard, in the lineage of Russian Circles, instrumental-leaning post-metal where the songwriting does the heavy lifting and the production keeps the dynamics intact.

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Azken Auzi: Infernua