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  Artist: THRAKIAN Album: The Way Origin: United Kingdom Label: Aonair Records Released: October 16, 2026 Genre: Sludge / Post-Metal / Melodic Death-Doom Rating: 9/10 Bandcamp: THRAKIAN on Bandcamp For those who have read my blog earlier know that I have a real weakness for melodic death/doom, so when THRAKIAN kicked off The Way with "Labours of Insanity", they had my attention straight away. This was right up my alley. Heavy, dark, melodic, and with a sound that immediately made me want to hear more. But there's a lot more to THRAKIAN than melodic doom/death. There are sludge here, and the post-metal influences are impossible to miss. What really gets me is how much melodic heavy rock they manage to bring into all that darkness. The riffs are heavy as hell, but there's so much groove and melody going on. And the vocals? Absolutely brilliant. Some of the best I've heard on a new release in a long time. They fit the music perfectly and make that...

  Artist: The Holeum Origin: Murcia/Alicante, Spain Label: Lifeforce Records Released: March 20, 2026 Genre: Post-Metal / Death Doom Rating: 8.5/10 Listen/Buy: Bandcamp Never heard The Holeum before this,came in completely blind, no expectations, just a name that sounded like it belonged in a physics textbook. Turns out that's kind of the point , these Alicante five-piece named themselves after an astrophysical theory about dark matter and black holes. Ensis is their third album, and whatever they've been doing in the years since their last record, it was worth the wait. The first thing that hit me was the atmosphere. Not the riffs, not the vocals , just the mood. There's a doom weight to this record that settles over you almost immediately, the kind that's more about gravity than volume. The guitars are doing a lot of the heavy lifting , building that slow, suffocating blanket of dark sound that good doom lives and dies by. I'm a sucker for it, and ...