Shredding: Moonspell
Join us for another shredding feature, as we celebrate three decades of sublime gothic metal with Portuguese legends Moonspell!
Doom: A Metalhead’s Guide
This is a deep dive into doom metal: into its essence, its history, and the murky depths of its many sub-classifications.
Slow Cuts of 2021
Slow Cuts of 2021 looks back at albums that needed more time to mull over from Ominous Glory, Wombbath, Omination, A Noend Of Mine, and Dead Space Chamber Music.
The Metal Observer’s Top 30 Albums of 2021
Here at The Metal Observer, we like to make sure the year has revealed all its surprises before passing judgement on the best music we’ve heard, hence why we are a little way into 2022 as we release our yearly Top 30. As ever, the list varies wildly from sub-genre to sub-genre and it was […]
Slow Cuts of 2020
Doom albums of 2020 that needed time to mull over. Includes King Witch, Marrowfields, Sorcerer, Pulchra Morte, and Cardinal Wyrm.
TMO’s Debut Albums of the Year
Welcome to a special edition TMO year end list, a warm-up to our final top 30, and what you can consider our Christmas present to you, our fellow readers. In the giving spirit of the holiday season, we thought to give a well earned shout-out to the special elite of up and coming bands that […]
Shredding: Ayreon
Today we venture into the deep unknown of the outer cosmos. Unknown races, long forgotten human ancestors and unrealized dimensions shall unfold before us as we open the doors to a whole world of sci-fi fantasy, adventures and best of all, prog.
TMO Albums Of The Month – September 2020
Autumn blues may hit you hard, but not as hard as September’s sickest metal albums
TMO Albums Of The Month – August 2020
As summer is reduced to a memory, the last of hot sunny days have left us with another selection of equally hot releases
Metal Archeology – Triglathena
With the sheer amount of metal bands out there, it is easy to get swept away by the flood of releases every month and miss some of the true gemstones. The Metal Observer will help you dig up these gemstones with less than 100 likes on Facebook in “Metal Archeology”. Here we have Colorado, USA’s […]
