Doomed For Metal Reviews

Perdition Temple is a blackened Death Metal from Florida who formed in 2009. Their latest album, “ Malign Apotheosis ,” is their fifth full-length album; they also released an EP and a split. “ Malign Apotheosis ,” is pretty much what I expected from this band—and that isn't a bad thing at all. This album finds the band zeroing in on being as fast, abrasive and nasty as possible. Sure, it isn't reinventing the wheel but it does fucking destroy it. And that is all it needs to do. The production is a little more muted and dismal than previous efforts but it works better for their sound this time around. With a band like this, I don't expect (or even want) crystal clear production. The songs are riff based, riding the often thin line between the extremes of black and death metal. But the genres may share extremity are different—but this album definitely balances the two styles well. The drums are absolutely insane and compliment the songs—bulldozing with a purpose. Much can...

Eximperitus is a death metal band from Belarus, who formed in 2009.  Their latest album, “ Meritoriousness of Equanimity ,” is their third full-length album; they have also released two demos, an EP, and a compilation.  The band used to have a really dumb long name and I’m not going to waste my time typing out because it would take as long to do as it does to listen to this album (just under 34 minutes).  I’d much rather listen to this album because it is an absolute hellride.  If every death metal album released after this one is even half as good, then the genre will have a legendary year. It’s so easy yet so hard to describe what exactly this album is.  On one hand, it’s death metal (or noise, if you hate death metal).  Easy, right? On the other hand, it’s beyond death metal into realms of brutality that some bands labeled as brutal death metal can’t even touch.  It’s also technical.  It has ambient/atmospheric sections.  There are even s...

Eigenstate Zero is a one-man progressive death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2018 by scene veteran Christian Ludvigsson.  The latest album, " A Thousand Blind Windows ," is the project's fifth full-length album. Muted fury and strange spoken words open the song “ A Thousand Blind Windows ,” but it feels more like being exhausted from trying so damn hard yet still willing to back down. The project isn't any stranger to unconventional structures and guitars that are seemingly thrown against the wall just to see what sticks—and somehow making it work in strange favor. Much remains the same, yet the band continues to act as a force of nature…so change is still constant.  It feels in these early moments of the album like a bit more focus has been found but it's more like the wild animals have been cornered instead of tamed. Nothing is more dangerous than an animal with nothing to lose not because it's at the end of the line but simply because it has zero fear w...

  Graves For Gods is a death/doom metal band from Australia who formed in 2020.  Their latest album, “ Last Light Fades ,” is their second full-length album.   I missed out on their debut but I’m glad “ Last Light Fades ” made its way to my inbox.  As the cover art suggests, this album is one born of pure darkness and all the unseemly things that come with it.  However, it is also filled with surprisingly catchy moments and can be quite melodic when needed. The first song, “ Prepetua Fell ,” is a great example of this, particularly in how the lead guitar adds flavorful layers to the songs and helps steer it in and out of dark territories. The heavy riffs from the rhythm/bass are simple but earworms within themselves while the harmonies stick out in the mind.   I like how the song is slow enough to let the music seep into the spaces between, but it doesn’t languish or meander too much—the band knows exactly where it wants to go.   The vocals are f...

Eldrovian is a one-man funeral doom metal band from Iceland, who released their debut EP “ The Forgotten Element , “in 2025.  Little time has been wasted—the project now consists of three EPs and a full-length album.  That’s amazing, especially when you consider the same musician behind this project also does Dauðaró (one of my favorite doom metal acts of the past few years), Dread of Immortality , Synthabsentia , and Skynbrögð ).  What I’m reviewing today is the project’s latest EP, “ The Hourglass of Apathy .”  It may “just” be an EP but there is over 27 minutes of music across its two songs—and both are worthy of your time and of the funeral doom pantheon.  I like the production/mix.  It’s definitely not crystal clear nor is it raw; it sits somewhere comfortably in between the two worlds.  This offers all the details to be heard (of which there are many) yet it still sounds bottomless.   As with any funeral doom, this is an esoteric exp...

Post Luctum is a one-man melodic death/doom band from California, United States who hit the scene in 2019 with its debut EP “ After Mourning .”  The project’s latest album, “ Timor Lucis ,” is the band’s third full-length; two additional EPs have also been released. I’ve been a fan of this band for a while now and have never been anything less than blown away.  “ Timor Lucis ,” is yet another sterling chapter in Post Luctum ’s story and finds mastermind Ian surpassing his already impressive standards. The album’s themes of isolation, loneliness and being rejected are represented frighteningly well across the album’s 7 song, 50-minute runtime.  The album’s title is, I think, Latin for “fear of the light,” or something similar at least.  That is in of itself a powerful message, one that is fully represented across the album’s harrowing journey.  Is this fear some sort of twisted addiction?  Human beings can get used to anything—our resilience to unimaginable...

Malignant Aura is a death/doom metal band from Australia that formed in 2018. Their latest album, “ Where All of Worth Comes to Wither ,” is their second full-length album. I didn't review it but I was a fan of their debut and I’m thrilled to have the chance to write about their second dark opus.  “ Where All of Worth Comes to Wither ,” is even better than the debut and has something to offer for fans of both death and doom metal.   Malignant Aura certainly knows their craft—when your car slides on the ice, you steer into the skid. With “ Where All of Worth …” is concerned, the skid is the depth of unfathomable death and darkness The atmosphere of this album is incredible.  It is bleak and cold without sounding distant—if anything, this album is constantly right in your face, gnawing and hacking away. But the atmosphere is mired in a slithering, stalking blackness that wraps around the soul like a coiled snake crushing its prey.  The album is “just” five songs, th...