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The Altar of Despair Doom Metal Radio Show airs on Open Grave Radio Sundays 5pm-8pm ET and Tuesdays 10pm-1am ET. Tune in!



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My Interests


Doom Metal:
-Traditional Doom
-Death Doom
-Funeral Doom
-Sludge Doom
-Stoner Doom
-Drone Doom
-Blackened Doom
-Dark Metal
-Gothic Metal

Other Forms of Music:
-Death Metal
-Black Metal
-Thrash Metal
-Ambient
-Classical
-Noise

-Medival Weapons
-Paganism
-Satanism
-Cemeteries
-Horror Movies
-True Death Films
-Mortuary Practices
-Photography
-Alcohol
-Loss
-Sorrow
-Suicide
-Despair

50 Best Doom Metal Riffs



I'd like to meet:

BANDS and LABELS!


I am looking for Doom Metal bands to play on my Doom Metal radio show and to review for BAST Magazine. Please contact me here to arrange to send me CDs and Demos for airplay and/or reviews.

I also accept emailed tracks for airplay only. Contact me here for my email address.(I cannot download them from MySpace due to low quality.)

My Show is:
The Altar of Despair

Open Grave Radio
Sundays 5pm-8pm ET
Tuesdays 10pm-1am ET
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-A Goat
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Israel and Iraq 5am-8am
Afghanistan 6am-9am
Indochina 10am-1pm
Japan/Western Australia 11am-2pm
Eastern Australia 12pm-3pm

Music:

A Perpetual Dying Mirror, Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Ahab, Anathema, Arcana Coelestia, Arcane Sun, Asbestos Death, Ataraxie, Autumnblaze, Beatrik, Bethlehem, Black Sabbath, Bongzilla, Boris, Buried at Sea, Burning Witch, Candlemass, Cathedral, Celestiial, Ceremonium, Church of Misery, Cirith Ungol, Coffins, Cold Embrace, Confessor, Crowbar, Count Raven, Dax Riggs, Death in June, Despond, dISEMBOWELMENT, Dolorian, Doom vs., Doomshine, Doomthrone, Dot (.), Draconian, Dream of December, Dreksau, Drudkh, Dusk, Earth, Edenbeast, Electric Wizard, Esoteric, Evenfall, Evoken, Eyehategod, Fall of Empyrean, Fall of the Grey Winged One, Flower Travellin' Band, Forest of Shadows, Funeral, Funeralium, Funerary Dirge, Funeral Luxuria, Goatsblood, Goatsnake, God's Tower, Graves at Sea, Grief, Hate Theory, High on Fire, I Drowned in a Stream of Mourn, Il Sangue, Iron Monkey, Jack Frost, Katatonia, Keelhaul, Keen of the Crow, Lake of Tears, Mausoleum, Minotauri, Moonspell, Morgion, Morphia, Moss, Mournful Congregation, Mourning Beloveth, My Dying Bride, My Shameful, Noothgrush, Nortt, Novembers Doom, October Tide, Officium Triste, Orodruin, Pagan Altar, Pantheist, Paradise Lost, Paramaecium, Pentagram, Place of Skulls, Poisonblack, Reverand Bizarre, Rigor Sardonicus, Saint Vitus, Saturnus, Second Sun, Shape of Despair, Shub Niggurath, Sirrah, Skepticism, Sleep, Solarfall, Solitude Aeturnus, Soloman Kane, Spirit Caravan, Sunn O))), Swallow the Sun, Tears of a Mourning Angel, The Funeral Orchestra, The Gates of Slumber, The Gathering, The Hidden Hand, The Obsessed, The Project Hate, The Wake, Thergothon, Thorr's Hammer, Torture Wheel, Trail of Tears, Tristania, Tristitia, Trouble, Type O Negative, Tyranny, Uncertainty Principal, Unpure to Christ, Wicked King Wicker, Winter, Witchfinder General, Withersoul, Within Tears, Woe of Tyrants, Wolves in the Throne Room, Wormphlegm, Worship, Wraithe of the Ropes, Yob, Zoroaster

My Blog

The Altar of Despair playlist 5/4/08

1. Draconian - The Solitude 2. Second Sun - Bright Pestilence 3. Earthride - Grip the wheel 4. Doomshine - Where Nothing Hurts but Solitude 5. Korog - Worshipping of Current 6. Katatonia - Shades of E...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Mon, 05 May 2008 05:01:00 PST

DOOM:VS Album Update

Just got two more songs of vocals left then I will mix the album and master it. I expect it to be finished in a week or so. There will be 6, maybe 7 tracks and title for the album is DEAD WORDS SPEAK....
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:20:00 PST

The Altar of Despair Playlist from 04/15/08

1. Worship - Let there be Doom 2. Minotauri - Hammer of Doom 3. Paradise Lost - In Nomine Satanas (Venom Cover) 4. Ataraxie - Another day of Despondency 5. Candlemass - Demonia 6 6. Despond - Tears of...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:54:00 PST

Candlemass prepares for First US Tour in 17 years!

  Swedish doom metal merchants, CANDLEMASS, are preparing to embark on what is sure to be one of the biggest events in metal in 2008... their first US tour in 17 years! This is will also mark th...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:49:00 PST

Paradise Lost Nominated for Best U.K. Band

Paradise Lost have been nominated in tomorrow..’s (April 9th) edition of Metal Hammer for "Best U.K Band" in the 2008 Golden Globe Awards. Other nominees include Iron Maiden, Bullet for my Valen...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:41:00 PST

New CD from My Shameful: "Descend."

Greetings!!! Our new album "Descend" is right now being pressed, and should be available in April, worldwide. Release date is set for 14.04.08!!! You can check out 2 new songs here on myspace or visit...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST

My Dying Bride enters the studio

UK doom legends MY DYING BRIDE have entered the studio to begin recording their next album.Pre-production started last week and the band has since gone into full studio mode at Futureworks in Manchest...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:26:00 PST

Officium Triste Lineup Change

Dutch "atmospheric doomsters" OFFICIUM TRISTE have issued the following update:"Once again we can inform you about a change within OFFICIUM TRISTE’s lineup."After much thought, Martin [Kwakernaa...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:34:00 PST

The Altar of Despair Playlist 3/18/08

The Altar of Despair Playlist Tuesday, 3/18/08 10pm-1am ET. 1. DOLORIAN - EPOCH OF CYCLOSURE 2. MOURNING BELOVETH - NARCISSISTIC FUNERAL 3. DOOMSHINE - SHINE ON SAD ANGEL 4. BURIED AT SEA - TRACK 3 5....
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:59:00 PST

Ataraxie Announces new Album

Anhédonie, new album revealed ! We are proud to anounce that our new album, Anhédonie will be soon out.This album was recorded during september 2007, mixed in november and mastered in january 2008 by...
Posted by The Altar of Despair - Doom Metal Radio on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:38:00 PST