STRIGOI
Strigoi: grave keepers of the death/doom code
Viscera
SEASON OF MIST
Paradise Lost guitarist takes his death-doom obsession to the dark side
GREGOR MACKINTOSH,
PARADISE
Lost’s guitarist and primary musical director since 1988, seems to have a deep, visceral need to get down and dirty with some creepy, crusty, oldschool death/doom. For most of the last decade, that hunger was fulfilled by the veritable crust-doom/deathgrind supergroup Vallenfyre, who delivered three enjoyable albums before grinding to a halt in 2018. Greg didn’t miss a beat. He formed Strigoi that same year. The debut,
Abandon
All
Faith,
explored much the same punked-up deathly sludge terrain, but with a wider creative scope, less devotion to old-school rulebooks and a greater focus on atmospheres of queasy unease.