Konvent are a four-piece loss of life/doom steel band from Copenhagen, Denmark. With simply two albums — 2020’s ‘Puritan Masochism’ and their latest effort, ‘Name Down the Solar,’ they’ve managed to carve out a distinct segment for themselves amongst immediately’s populous doom scene with aching, mournful melodies pouring over a bedrock of crawling, crushing riffs to create a post-metal environment of agony.
The nicely of doom steel is continually being topped off with new artists placing their very own touches on the style’s big selection of sonic prospects, so we hand it off to Konvent, who’re right here to shout out who they imagine are the ten Greatest New Age Doom Metallic Bands.
After we first received collectively in 2015, none of us have been very huge doom followers, so it’s a little bit of a coincidence that we ended up making doom steel, since we simply wished to sound heavy and evil. However I believe one of many solely doom bands that all of us favored from the start was Candlemass, due to their epic and menacing riffs.
Since then, our love for doom steel has grown greater, though we regularly find yourself liking genre-bending bands that blend doom with black, loss of life or punk for instance. I believe that’s what retains the style alive as nicely, that we hold looking for out new methods, whereas nonetheless maintaining in contact with the previous influences.
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Konvent, “Grains”
Mantar
Mantar is a band that almost all of us have in frequent. All of us love their music and sound they usually have positively been an enormous inspiration to us all through.
Their combination of punk, doom and black steel is so addictive! They’re simply spectacular, each on albums and reside!
Some years in the past, we did an interview the place we needed to share our most beloved band T-shirts and Sara was sporting a Mantar shirt. After that they reached out to us and despatched us all a T-shirt they usually have been simply so good! We’d nonetheless actually like to tour with these guys. That will be killer!
—Heidi Withington Brink
Pallbearer
It is a band I discovered a number of years in the past, after they have been enjoying a venue right here in Copenhagen. I didn’t actually know a lot about them, earlier than the present, however I used to be actually transfixed throughout their entire set and instantly went to purchase their album “Foundations of Burden” afterwards, which I nonetheless have and take heed to at the present time.
It’s a band I’d actually like to tour with as nicely, as a result of I’d take pleasure in listening to them each night time.
—Heidi Withington Brink
Foreshadower
Hypnotic and instrumental post-metal/doom/sludge from Copenhagen, Denmark. Their model of doom may be very heavy and but they handle to include actually melancholic riffs and melodies, which makes excellent sense when wanting on the music titles. They’ve solely launched one LP and I can’t wait to listen to extra from them!
—Rikke Emilie
Primitive Man
Unpolished loss of life sludge doom from Denver, Colorado. Their kind of doom is certainly the extra gritty variety in the absolute best method. Ethan Lee McCarthy’s vocals are completely superb. I nonetheless have not seen them reside but however they’re on the highest of my to-see listing.
—Rikke Emilie
Dopelord
Catchy stoner doom from Lublin, Poland. After we have been writing our first album Puritan Masochism, Dopelord was one of many bands I used to be continually listening to. The intro to their music “Preacher Electrick” has develop into fairly iconic.
—Rikke Emilie
Spaceslug
Psychedelic stoner doom from Wroclaw, Poland. Their music is nice for these days the place you simply must de-stress and have a break. Additionally, Spaceslug is the right identify for this band as it would take you on a gradual journey across the cosmos.
—Rikke Emilie
Monolord
Nice stoner doom from Gothenburg, Sweden. We have been fortunate to tour with Monolord in 2019 and see them play reside each night time. I can all the time take heed to Monolord whether or not I’ve had a very good or a nasty day. Extremely advocate their album Rust from 2017.
—Rikke Emilie
Amenra
Sara and I’ve been very impressed by Amenra when writing the brand new album. Very melodic and massive sounding, but their music remains to be very minimalistic. Superb band. One other nice instance of constructing a sound universe with out it being so complicated. One thing that we try to attain is making a sound universe of our personal. That’s very inspiring to us. We hope to sometime share the stage with them!
—Julie Simonsen
Dvne
One in all my very huge inspirations relating to music writing. They’re insanely good musicians and I actually admire their expertise. I listened loads to Dvne whereas writing Name Down the Solar for Konvent and it has positively been a really huge inspiration for me.
I really feel that one can all the time take heed to Dvne and I typically take heed to them in my automotive on my method to work. I actually really feel they deserve extra consideration and I’d like to see them reside some day. Their latest album is simply… spectacular! Their compositions are totally insane and I’ve not heard something prefer it earlier than.
—Sara Helena Nørregaard
Domkraft
Very heavy, catchy and groovy doom riffs. I really feel like this can be a very “no-bullshit” band. Their music may be very monotonous, nevertheless it by no means will get boring. The vocals are very empowering, and I all the time really feel like headbanging after I hear this band. I noticed them reside in Copenhagen some years in the past and it was actually nice. Would like to see extra live shows with this band.
—Sara Helena Nørregaard
