Terror Fest Picks

"...CommunionFri. 15, Lost Well, 4:45pm Radically heavy Austin doom trio descends into dark and sludgy 15-minute opuses that..."

June 15, 2018 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Houses of the Unholy

Housecore Horror by the blurb

"...Helming Seattle doom quartet Witchburn, lead sorceress Jamie Nova straddles whiskey-soaked Southern..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Feature

Betting the Farm

Gamecock helps indie video-game developers play with the big boys

"...in Mesquite, Texas, as id Software's PR man for Doom and other historic titles. Wilson remembers them as "just..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Eddy AmesLess Than Stupefied at DoomDear Editor,..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column

Record Reviews

Prince Paul

"...A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy) DR. DOOM..."

May 14, 1999 Music Review

Scanlines

"...Doom..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Screens Feature

Nosferatu

A symphony of horrors is revived once more

"...tribute. Just as he plays with Murnau’s themes of doom and darkness, so his oppressively Gothic visuals takes vital..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival Announces 2023 Film Lineup

LGBTQ film fest starts 36th year with musicals, mystery, more

"...Opening night film Glitter & Doom, a jukebox musical featuring the Grammy Award winning music..."

June 28, 2023 Screens Post by James Scott

The Bloodhound

Poe adaptation relishes tone over text

"...almost stagnant and dusty mood of Picard's iteration of doom-laden melodrama might fall flat. But if Reece's mannered camp..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

14 Austin Terror Fest Picks

The best metal for brave ears

"...Fri. 7, 9:15pm As a harsh miasma of blackened, doom-soaked sludge, Unearthly Trance left an ugly smear on the..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Terror Fest Record Reviews

Tomb Mold, Come to Grief/Fistula, Chrch, Wayfarer, and Gnaw

"...bone, while drummer Max Klebanoff eschews every-hesher-for-himself blast beats. Doom spines "Final Struggle of Selves" and "Blood Mirror" as..."

June 15, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Bastion Standard Time

Austin theatre's 'enfant terrible' swapped his poison pen for a Poison Apple and still gets people talking

"...Fringe. His current project, directing Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, by former Austinite Jennifer Haley, is a joint production..."

July 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...it, were already downtrending to the full-on gloom and doom of fifth full-length The Wretch. Previous sand-and-sandals epics here..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Lists

SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else

"...Sten Ove Toft, whose new all-star assemblage divines deceptive doom and gloom on Okkult de Sac...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection

The world's favorite whip-wielding archaeologist gets a new DVD reissue

"...Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)...."

May 23, 2008 Screens Review by Rick Klaw

Mimic

"...in hideous ways that are sure to result in doom -- doom, I say -- for all mankind. Three..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Church, yeule, Codeine, and More Highlights From Levitation’s Thursday and Friday

Standout sets from the multi-venue Austin festival’s opening dates

"...DITC vinyl as the triad pounded higher than Mount Doom. Pike turned to bass trunk Jeff Matz as Willis..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

10 Essential Showcases to See at Oblivion Access

Unpacking the unclassifiable experimental music festival, show by show

"...and fairylike shoegaze. Recent album Orbweaving features the typical doom and gloom of Johnston coupled with a meatier rock..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

A farewell party for Jim Eno, Rock the Park with Rosie Flores, and more recommended shows

"...levity into their fifth clamor and stomp, last fall's Doom Wop, adhering to the crucial musical tenet that self-seriousness..."

June 2, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...8:40pm, Latchkey Sat 18, 8pm, Hotel Vegas Four words: doom with a saxophone. This from an Australian duo made..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

To Oblivion and Beyond: A Breakdown of the Bands at Oblivion Access

Translating the scrolls at Austin’s most interesting festival of the year

"...Beth Gibbons, but in hell, over the full pulverizing doom, shoegaze, hardcore, atmospheric amalgamation that is Boston band Elizabeth..."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Mike & the Moonpies lead a stacked Sagebrush bill, plus Joey DeFrancesco, Destroyer of Light, the War on Drugs, Thor & Friends, and Clem Snide

"...sell out. – Michael Toland Destroyer of Light's Decade of DoomLost Well, Friday 14..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Levitation Announces 2019 Fall Lineup

John Cale, Angel Olsen, and Kurt Vile highlight fall fest

"...blackgaze favorites Deafheaven, Dallas thrash menace Power Trip, Swedish doom hammer Monolord, and Grammy-nabbing metal warlords High on Fire..."

April 24, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: No Really, How Are You?

Daniel Johnston provides backstory to Hi, How Are You? Day, plus the first 2017/18 Austin Music Awards talent reveal

"...Doom Side of the Moon, the Sword spin-off that transmogrifies..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Live Music to See This Weekend

For the next three days, live a little.

"...Chet Flippo, paramount voice of country music journalism, famously..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Tuesday SXSW 2015 Showcases

"...rightly known as a cesspit of spitting thrash and doom, Tuesday night Chile teases a softer side with two..."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature

Drafthouse Hosts a Class of 1984 Reunion

He who controls the past controls the future of Alamo programming

"...and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Aside from a regular screening, there will be a..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lions of Tsavo

"...their quiver. The Austin trio gives equal time to doom-mongering sludge, prog-kissed post-rock, blackened thrash, and steel-jacketed noisecore on..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

Eat to the Beat

Gotta break eggs to make a musician omelet

"..."There've been points in Doom Siren where every member worked in a kitchen," he..."

June 14, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Many Faces of Janus

AFS Essential Cinema series presents a wild lineup

"...spare essay in alienation hurdles into The Sword of Doom's samurai bloodbath – and that's a testament to both..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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