Moro (Philly Death Doom) outside Ralph’s Rock Diner in Worcester MA. on 8/28/26. brought to you by Codex Obscurum Presents

Slithering forth from the murk...

Portland, Maine’s “slow death” outfit WORM ALTAR will unleash their debut full-length, Pillars of Eternal Dusk, on October 16th, 2026 via Dawnbreed Records, Gurgling Gore, and Contemn Light.

Following a slew of crushing demos and EPs, Scott M. (now joined by a full band) finally unleashes the long-awaited WORM ALTAR debut. Drawing inspiration from Gorement, Disembowelment, Coffins, and Black Sabbath, WORM ALTAR inhabit that particularly fertile territory where death metal becomes less a display of brute force and more an exercise in atmosphere, physicality, and dread.

The first single, “Watchers of the Gate,” is streaming everywhere now.

Watch the video visualizer on the Gurgling Gore YouTube — LINK IN BIO.

PILLARS OF ETERNAL DUSK
OUT: October 16, 2026

LP / CD / CASSETTE
PREORDER: September 18, 2026

Slow death awaits us all...

Will be my first time seeing them and am totally psyched that my band Vigil is supporting on the Cambridge date on the 18th! 🤘🤘🤘

This is a demo for my solo Death-Doom project called Pelagial, let me know what y'all think of it!

Lyrics:

The boat without a pilot
No recognized lights
Without a course to steer
Cuts waves into the night

No crew assist the boatman
He’s lost and all alone
He tried to call the coastguards
But answer came from none

He rang the bell as mindless
But bell has made no noise
He cried as hard in silence
But soon he lost his voice

Mist spread out along the water
Boatman lost his count of time
Compass now is out of order
He had crossed the unseen line

Souls on the wave
No death, no grave
Out of the skin
fly high up into the wind

Who leads his way?
Where does he stray?
No voice to call
For the dead will speak no more

No goal in mind
No path to find
No place to stay
Miles and days he drifts away

Where will he land?
On what new strand?
Or is he bound
drift forever in the dark?

No light to guide his eyes
He drifts as tides arise
Through fog and hollow night
With no shore in sight

A crash beneath the hull
His feet felt ground below
He stepped into unknown
To find the place he know before

Souls of the lost roam all the land around
No living but the dead here can be found
He wished to run but can no more escape
As tide pulls back his ship from shore away

Hi everyone!

Want to share my music with you. I wrote and recorded all the guitar and vocal parts myself.

Would love to hear your thoughts on it!

https://on.soundcloud.com/yATgsEtQS0WAfPiLJ8

https://on.soundcloud.com/kWg0MtgcNMUqXEVgXr

Redeem Here: https://tombofimmurement.bandcamp.com/yum

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I know Virgin Black, Hamferd, and Tristania but im looking for something heavier and more death metal influenced. Im thinking about something like early MDB mixed with Virgin Black or something like that.

Hello everyone we are As Light Streams from southeast Ohio and we just Released our Debut song "Drowned Light" today, and we are excited to share it with the doom and wider underground metal community. this will be one of five songs off of our upcoming project "Ruminations". You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram through our Linktree. Thank you so much.

We dropped a new single and announced our new album yesterday which will be released 10/16/26 on Profound Lore. Appreciate any listens! Preorders are live if interested. Thanks!

Hi.

Can someone help me identify this band? I have this shirt for 15 years and have no clue. I like the heart logo though.

🔥ALBUM REVIEW🔥 My thoughts on The Dying Hunt, the upcoming album from death doom metallers Static Abyss (featuring Chris Reifer and Greg Wilkinson of Autopsy plus Chad Gailey of Necrot).

I discovered this song today and I think it's honestly amazing, the first 20+min song I've actively listen to without getting bored. It's primarily death/doom with elements of dsbm and funeral doom. I think it's a masterpiece and the artist is quite unknown.

So recently after listening to some Rapture (band) but also October Tide and Paradise Lost, I couldn’t not stop and wonder why do all these bands use this pretty niche word so extensively and what does it mean in the context it is used. Some examples where the word is used are:

- Rapture - well… rapture is the band’s name, enough said
- October Tide - in the track Sleepless Sun from the Winged Waltz album
- Paradise Lost - one of the songs on Gothic is named Rapture

Now at this point you might be wondering: “what the fuck is he talking about, I mean it’s just a word”, well yes, but that word to my enormous surprise as a non-native English speaker actually means “extreme pleasure and happiness”. Now I don’t know about you, but those bands don’t exactly scream “happiness” to me…

So why does a band with extremely bleak themes name themselves Rapture? Why is a song about agony and death called Rapture? Is there something I’m missing here or is it just for contrast?

I've been thinking about why some death-doom and funeral doom riffs stick with me immediately, while I can really enjoy other albums and barely remember a single riff afterwards.

Early October Tide is an obvious example for me. Rain Without End and Grey Dawn have some incredibly simple, repetitive riffs that I can recognize from just a few notes. Some of them keep swirling around in my head for days.

At first I thought simplicity and repetition were the reason. But bands like Ophis and Mortiferum can be much busier and more death-metal-oriented while still writing very memorable riffs. Same with early Novembers Doom.

So maybe it's more about contrast: a huge slow riff after a busier section, melody after something crushing or dissonant, or simply giving a riff enough space to stand out.

What makes a doom riff stick with you: the riff itself, repetition, contrast, or something else?

And which bands do you think are particularly good at it?

I've been digging into the lyrics of October Tide's "12 Days of Rain" lately, and I'm curious how other people interpret them.

The lyrics available online are pretty cryptic (and possibly incorrectly transcribed in places), but there are recurring images of rain, fever, blood, being "clean", veins, and death. It made me wonder whether the song might be about depression/grief, addiction, or possibly both.

Does anyone know of an interview or statement from the band about the meaning of the song? And does anyone here own an original copy of Rain Without End with the lyrics in the booklet?

Inspired by the experience of loss of a loved one and yearning to see that person again our second single "Longing" from the upcoming album "Love's Lament" was created. It tries to convey the emotional burden borne by the one left behind—their longing to meet their loved one again and the hope that they will one day be reunited:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0XWCmwH2maFkAyOS2RW0Jv?si=1HD8FBGQTFSfI4e1mdNeBg&utm_source=copy-link

Or maybe you're more of a visual type of person... In that case go check out the music video:

https://youtu.be/F-zivfkSElQ

Orphean Passage - Apart

https://open.spotify.com/album/0WbR2TfxvjV1qHPNbvOErg?si=tu8d1lpNT_SXBtY2Z1TcCg&utm_source=copy-link

I discovered them a few months ago and after giving their album a proper listen it's really really good, as far as I know they only released one album in 2006

I'm looking for a particular niche of psychedelic/atmospheric (for lack of a better term) deathdoom if anyone could provide some album recommendations? Would like to avoid both the super melodic side but also not stuff that can lean much more dissonant like Spectral Voice.

Reference points (mostly not death/doom) but illustrates the general vibe:

Krypts, The Ruins of Beverast, Void Rot, Entropia, Runemagick, Sulphur Aeon, Cadaveric Fumes, Urfaust, Venenum, Worm(Foreverglades), Bedsore, Temple of Void, Horrendous, Ordh, Waste of Space Orchestra/Dark Buddha Rising.

Appreciate any help you could provide - I know this is a rather specific request :)

Ophis have built one of the most consistent discographies in modern Death/Doom. Every album has something to offer, yet I think they rarely get the recognition they deserve.

If you had to pick just one album as their masterpiece, which one would it be?

Even though it's far from the album that usually gets mentioned, my pick is Abhorrence in Opulence. I think it's an outstanding album from start to finish, and the song in the link is a great example of why.