After their debut album "Gnoia" (2005, Firedoom Records), the Finnish band UMBRA NIHIL comes with a brand new album "The Borderland Rituals“. 5 long obscure, frosty compositions of hypnotic doom metal. Album was released by Epidemie Records on the 18th of November 2008. The album's initial concept was inspired by themes introduced to some of us by the writer William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) in the brooding horror novel The House on the Borderland. In order to achieve a suitable claustrophobic sound and eerie, forbidding atmosphere the album has been recorded in a… read more
After their debut album "Gnoia" (2005, Firedoom Records), the Finnish band UMBRA NIHIL comes with a brand new album "The Borderland Ri…read more
After their debut album "Gnoia" (2005, Firedoom Records), the Finnish band UMBRA NIHIL comes with a brand new album "The Borderland Rituals“. 5 long obscure, frosty compos… read more
Umbra Nihil is an obscure doomish metal act, originally from Northern Finland. Since 2000 the band has evolved into the being that produced the latest full length offering titled The Borderland Rituals (2008). The Borderland Rituals, Umbra Nihil’s second full length release, seems like a musical mongrel mostly drawing influences from slow doom flavoured metal, 70’s prog rock, Zeuhl, and maggot-infested Heavy Metal in general. In order to achieve a suitable claustrophobic sound and eerie, forbidding atmosphere the album was recorded in the inbred borderland, sullenly crafting the ban… read more
Umbra Nihil is an obscure doomish metal act, originally from Northern Finland. Since 2000 the band has evolved into the being that produced the latest full length offering titled The Border… read more
Umbra Nihil is an obscure doomish metal act, originally from Northern Finland. Since 2000 the band has evolved into the being that produced the latest full length offering titled The Borderland Rituals (2008). The Borderland Rituals, U… read more