Doomwright
Extreme metal · adapted from the dead

Doomwright

Old literature, forged into doom. One wright, and a workshop of ruin.

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THE POSSESSED album cover

Now unsealed

The Possessed

Eight movements of cold Russian atmospheric black metal, after Dostoevsky's Demons — one town, one fever of the mind, and the silence left when faith disappears.

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The Codex

A catalogue of adapted ruin

Every work reads a dead author back into the dark. This is a fragment of the canon.

Nineteen works & counting
I
The Possessed Newest
after Dostoevsky — cold atmospheric black metal & blackened death-doom
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II
The Colour Out of Space
after Lovecraft — blackened death-doom
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III
Faust
after Goethe — chamber death-doom
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IV
The Fall of the House of Usher
after Poe — funeral doom
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V
Viy
after Gogol — atmospheric folk black metal
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VI
Manuscripts Don't Burn
after Bulgakov — blackened doom
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VII
Gilgamesh
the ancient epic — blackened death
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VIII
Inferno
after Dante — funeral doom
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The full canon
The Illuminations

Cover plates & marginalia

The painted faces of each work — dark oil, gilt, and ivory. Your gallery lives here.

Plate I
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Plate III
Plate IV
Marginalia

Notes from the workshop

On the texts, the craft, and why the old words still bleed. Your writing lives here.

On method

Reading Gogol back into the dark

What survives when a folk terror is stripped of its comedy and left only with the church, the circle of chalk, and the thing that opens its eyes.

On craft

Why the codex, not the album

These are not records so much as bound volumes — each one a text exhumed, translated once more into weight and cold.

On doom

The wright's trade

A wheelwright makes wheels; a playwright makes plays. This is a workshop, and the trade is ruin, patiently made.