November's Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal

For sure, death/doom is an unusual amalgam of two already esoteric genres. Add to that the grandiose barkings of November's Doom founder member Paul Kuhr and his tales of Lazarus' Regret and The Harlot's Lie, and what emerges might well be a little hard to swallow for the non-Gothic masses. These guys have been around the block. Formed in 1989 and pioneering that aforementioned meeting of death metal and doom, they are indeed masters of their craft. It's just difficult to know what to make of that craft as the rest of metal moves on, not least since nu-metal's '90s dominance consigned much of the more technical bands to the sidelines; at that point these guys were already an outside bet. Thus Into Night's Requiem Infernal is unlikely to go interstellar but it's a solid representation of a niche genre and will probably even light some fires among disciples of Scandinavia's black metal scene.