The cover art to Existence is Futile  offers a lot to unpack, some sort of devilish orgy processing center against the burning wastes of Hel...

Italians and their horror go hand in hand, from the classic zombie and giallo films to a broad range of metal engaged with the genre. From y...

Had Lake of Tears remained consistent through its near 30 year existence, I would count Daniel Brennare's baby as one of my favorite do...

Heavenwood decided to go all out with its fifth album, and not only come up with an interesting tarot concept for the titling and lyrics, b...

A decade would pass before Heavenwood would release their follow-up to Swallow , a hiatus that didn't change their sound much. In fact, ...

The cover to the Heavenwood sophomore always freaked me out, I mean not so much the devouring of the reptilian tail and possibly its owner ...

Although Moonspell should be credited for breaking Portugal out onto the international metal scene, it seemed as if there were a fairly lon...

With a title like Mechanism Masochism , you'd expect that the little industrial footprints on Dead Body Music might have taken full con...

Gardens of Gehenna swapped over to Last Episode for their second recording, and it marked a small if insignificant shift in style as they b...

I could not remember this band's name for the longest time. When I first flirted with the idea of covering some Gothic metal stuff for a...

I would be remiss to think of anything possibly quirkier than the track "Panacea" from Sirrah 's debut, but I think in general...

Like a lot of folks, I was introduced to Sirrah through one of the Beauty in Darkness compilations that Nuclear Blast released; the title ...

The Bloodline 's sophomore album Where Lost Souls Dwell does on the surface seem like it might have fallen into the dorky, superficial ...

Germany's long been central to the Gothic metal world (and adjacent styles like Industrial/EBM), but it's always been a double edged...

Sculpture was another band of German hopefuls within the Gothic metal niche, and while the band name and cover art to their sole, eponymous ...

While I wasn't so hot on Cryhavoc 's debut Sweetbriers (other than the cover), Pitch-Black Blues feels a little closer to what I h...

While it's not as annoying as the two covers before it, the Germans of Sleeping Gods still did not seem to realize the importance of ae...

Regenerated might not look like much, in fact Sleeping Gods has never had a decent album cover whatsoever, but if you want to know how much...

I can't remember what classic album cover this one reminds me of, it's obviously a tribute or parody of some sort and entirely too g...

What a way to release your first proper live album...recorded right at the close of your career, released posthumously, and absolutely packe...