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Second album "S" from international death/funeral doom band Mesmur was released Sept 15, 2017 through Solitude Productions. https://mesmur.bandcamp.com/ The followup to Mesmur's crushing eponymous debut, "S" is an apocalyptic funeral doom exploration of the madness of the cosmos...

The second full length from progressive/atmospheric black metal band Dalla Nebbia will be released on Sept 18 by Razed Soul Productions. A preview track was just released for streaming today. https://razedsoul.bandcamp.com/album/felix-culpa

Ahab, Ea, Colosseum, Pantheist, Shape of Despair, and Mournful Congregation are all fantastic. Here are several other great ones that nobody's posted. Some of them approach death/doom territory, but most consider all of these funeral doom. Evoken (US)...

Mesmur is a new funeral doom project featuring members of Dalla Nebbia, Funeral Age, and Orphans of Dusk. The debut full length will be released in December of 2014 by Code666 Records. The bleak and suffocating atmosphere will appeal to fans of bands like Evoken, Esoteric, Ea, or Mar de Grises...

Mesmur is a new funeral doom project featuring members of Dalla Nebbia, Funeral Age, and Orphans of Dusk. The debut full length will be released in December of 2014 by Code666 Records. The bleak and suffocating atmosphere will appeal to fans of bands like Evoken, Esoteric, Ea, or Mar de Grises...

Check out Dalla Nebbia. It's atmospheric black metal, with some progressive influence. Debut full length was released today, and actually has a Windir cover song on it. http://dallanebbia.bandcamp.com Here are a few of more of my favorite hugely atmospheric black metal albums that you...

For those of you that are interested in atmospheric black metal with progressive rock and doom elements, "The Cusp of the Void", the first full length album from Dalla Nebbia was released today. http://dallanebbia.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/dallanebbiamusic

For those of you that are interested in atmospheric black metal with progressive rock and doom elements, "The Cusp of the Void", the first full length album from Dalla Nebbia was released today. http://dallanebbia.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/dallanebbiamusic

I just rediscovered the avant-garde black metal band Solefald's amazing Red for Fire and Black for Death albums, which I hadn't listened to in a long time. It's part 1 and 2 of an epic viking story of an Icelandic skald (royal poet) who sleeps with the queen, goes on the run, and then has deal...

If Opeth was your "gateway" into death metal, you may want to try Enslaved, Vreid, and Borknagar. Enslaved (later material anyway) is progressive black metal that's more accessible than most. I highly recommend the albums Isa and Ruun. Vreid was started by the surviving members of Windir after...

I was wondering if anyone could recommend some extreme metal bands, particularly in the black/post-black or extreme progressive genres, that utilize a good bit of melodic violin. A couple of examples that I'm already into are Panopticon and Ne Obliviscaris. I'm not really looking for the folky...

I think the guitars sound really good. Drums are a little muffled. I like to do heavy scooping of the low mid and mid frequencies on the bass drum, and boost the highs a little in the 4k to 5k range, which will help it to cut through the mix clearly. If you have any kind of stereo imager plugin...

I have to say I love Limbonic Art's first two equally, even though they're very different. I like Ad Noctum is very good too, but doesn't come close to the atmosphere of the first two.

I do all my composition in the software Reason, using midi to approximate guitar riffs, which I fine tune later on an actual guitar. It's really easy to move things around to play with song structure, or quickly experiment with multiple melodic parts. I'm writing and arranging alone though, for...

There are a lot of melancholic and "folkish" black metal bands that are barely metal. Agalloch Alcest Woods of Ypres Empyrium - their later material has no electric guitars at all Drawn Uaral (folk/doom from Chile, very beautiful stuff)