This is music that is punishing, but exciting, hateful, but stirring and I hope to hear a lot more from Chronoboros in the future. A superb start from such a new band. – By Gavin Brown

For a debut album, ‘Noeth ac Anoeth’ is a very promising start for an outfit who have managed to craft their own sound right out of the gate with less than twelve months together as a band. What is more exciting is the room for them to grow. – By Perran Helyes

Fórn aren’t for the faint of heart. It’s doom in the very purest sense of the word; an unshakable sense of dread, a gnawing feeling that everything is somehow fundamentally, irredeemably wrong. It’s sludge you have to wade neck deep through. It’s an EP that will make you feel like painting the windows black, cutting the phoneline, giving all your possessions bar your stereo away and existing entirely within its cavernous chords. – By Jamie Jones

‘Deadwood To Worms’ nearly makes it and for at least two thirds of the album is a glorious reminder of how great doom music can be. Jump in for the ride, you won’t be disappointed. – By Martyn Coppack

Scott Bowden had a short Q&A with Sacramento doom band CHRCH asking about the band’s history, their gear and the Sacramento music scene.

This is immersive, heavy, clean, brutal, beautiful and quite literally tone city for every single instrument. It’s like you are in the same room as the band. – By Scott Bowden

This album is like a journey into a deep, dark abyss that swallows you whole, and rarely lets you come up to gasp for breath. – By Scott Bowden

If you like your harsh, forest-cry vocals but crave pounding riffs rather than the buzzy biscuit tin amplifier set-up of much black metal, you could do much worse than VVOVNDS. Intense and terrifying. I fucking loved it. – By Rob Batchelor

Hey Colossus Baba Yaga’s Hut Presents at Electrowerkz, 9.10.2015 Photos by Samantha Hayley

Seven tracks of cyclical death/doom formula complete with the hypnotic blacksmith chimes pounding away on a never changing rhythm, while an extra dose of treacle has been poured into the production mix somehow making it sound even filthier and heavier! – By Andrew Rawlinson

It’s doom, but its also folk and progressive. It also has a high element of blues too which gives it that classic feel. A great album which deserves to be heard and Sudbury should be proud. – By Martyn Coppack

It is clear in both a live and studio setting that this pair has incredible musical chemistry, and at some point this musical secret from New England will be discovered by the rest of the world. – By John McLaughlin

So in summary I couldn’t help feeling slightly underwhelmed. I wonder if this would have been better if the five strongest tracks had been released as an EP? Maybe? It doesn’t pack much of a punch and it was more like Exhausted Fire as opposed to ‘Exhausting Fire’. Lets hope they can regroup and fan the spark with their next album without burning themselves out entirely. – By Rob Thompson

They’re a fine band this lot and deserve your attention. This is a band doing doom as it should be done and a remarkable improvement on an already enjoyable debut release. – By Martyn Coppack

They take the stoner party van from the cover of their début and power slide it through a bunch of rock sub-genres with glee, one hand on the wheel, one flicking horns through the window. – By Jamie Jones

There are no losers on this record. Both bands bring a level of intensity and majesty to their sprawling compositions that exemplify the post-metal genre. – By Andy Price

Metallic, thick and loathsome, ‘Rise to Infamy’ is a scathing album that peels back the skin and salts the wound while laughing at its victim. – By Christopher Luedtke

Hopefully this stands as a precursor as to where this band is heading next and if so I am very excited for what they might produce. As it is, it is easily one of the finest ‘post rock’ records that 2015 has offered up so far. By Dan Salter

From the fantastical cover art to the inviting music, this is the equivalent of a season of Game Of Thrones in one quick sitting. It’s simply impossible not to fall in line with them. – By Martyn Coppack

We’re proud to present an exclusive stream of the track ‘Ruined/Decay’, which is the fourth track on ‘III’, the new album by Belgian two man instrumental sludge battalion SardoniS.