Two decades after he’d been sickened enough to quit playing, Holden discovered he was a guitar hero. He picked up the guitar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Candlemass will be joining The Crypt; Gus G. (and friends); and Conception’s Roy Khan and Tore Østby (among other acts). As the festival’s Facebook page announced yesterday (Feb. 1), “This will be the ...

Khemmis is synonymous with modern doom metal at this point, backed by a consistent catalog of harmonious heavy hitters chock-full of those signature guitar harmonies and bone-rattling beats. But when ...

On a 20th anniversary reissue, the UK doom metal band’s second—and most recent—album remains one of the genre’s heaviest and ...

Doom-metal pioneers Pentagram played San Antonio’s Paper Tiger Tuesday night, demonstrating why the group continues to have such staying power even though it formed in 1971 and contains only one ...

Pentagram delivers a stellar performance, reminding the crowd why the band is legendary in doom metal circles. Credit: Stephanie Koithan Doom metal progenitors Pentagram will perform at San Antonio’s ...

When it comes to the mighty genre of doom metal, few bands hold as much weight as the Swedish powerhouse Candlemass. Considered one of the pre-eminent bands in that subsect of heavy metal, they were ...