With Paradise Lost we can welcome a prominent member of the British doom scene. In the 90s the band was part of the so-called ‘big three’ of death/doom metal, together with My Dying Bride and Anathema. Their second album ‘Gothic’ (1991) single-handedly defined the genre and ‘Draconian Times’ (1995) can safely be called a doom masterpiece. But the guys also look beyond the doom borders. For example, singer Nick Holmes and his team proved with the input of keyboards, drum computers and sequencers on ‘One Second’ from 1997 that they are not averse to experimenting.

The band from Halifax has been around for a long time (founded in 1988!), but the guys are far from worn out. This fall, their eighteenth (!) album 'Ascension' will be released, the successor to the very well-received 'Icon 30' from 2023, on which they gave their album, released in 1993, a new look.

Formed in 1991 in Dublin, Ireland Primordial are now about to enter their 30th year of existence. Originally part of the second wave of black/death/doom underground metal breaking out across the world in the late 80s, early 90s, they added elements of Irish traditional music and cultural, historical influences. 'Exile among the ruins' their last album is no. 9 and they are about to embark on their landmark 10th album for Metal Blade Records. Music for the dark night of the soul.

Founded in 2011 in Vienna, Austria, the aim of Harakiri for the sky has always been to create a unique mixture of melancholy and aggression, madness and meaning, and wrapped in alternately manic/mellow songs that bridged black metal and atmospheric post-rock. The band was initially begun as a studio project by erstwhile Bifröst member M. S. joined by vocalist/lyricist J. J. of Karg and has recently been expanded to a live lineup.