{"id":145584,"date":"2025-05-31T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145584\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:41:09","slug":"six-brutal-metal-albums-to-blast-after-doom-the-dark-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145584\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Brutal Metal Albums To Blast After Doom: The Dark Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Doom Slayer stands before camera.\" data-chomp-id=\"250cc967076310c00db170e16f5039a1\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-height=\"1080\" data-alt=\"The Doom Slayer stands before camera.\" data-anim-src=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250cc967076310c00db170e16f5039a1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Screenshot: iD Software \/ Claire Jackson \/ Kotaku<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 iFktwq\">Doom The Dark Ages is an interesting little beast. It\u2019s still Doom at heart, in the vein of the last two games. But the vibe is just so very different, and not just because of the medieval setting. It\u2019s the Army of Darkness of Doom games, if you follow. That goes double for the music, and while there\u2019s, uh, <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 jWaxPY js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/mick-gordon-doom-eternal-bad-ost-soundtrack-id-stratton-1849764800&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/mick-gordon-doom-eternal-bad-ost-soundtrack-id-stratton-1849764800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obvious reasons for that<\/a>. Fact remains, this is a game where you\u2019re an absolute unit, ripping demons to shreds; but there\u2019s way more Warhammer shit in its veins than before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 iFktwq\">Doom 2016 and Eternal may have sparked a whole new fire under the djent-ier side of metal\u2014to the point that there\u2019s folks trying to make the name \u201cArgent Metal\u201d happen\u2014but The Dark Ages is slotting into a deep tradition of metal portraying high-fantasy Hell, without swaying too far in either direction. So, if you were one of those folks who fell down a metal rabbit hole after the first two games, and need something to match the vibes a little better this time around, or if this is your first step into a larger, more brutal world, let\u2019s walk you a little further down the path with an appropriate six more albums to go hunting down to keep the brutal times rolling long after you\u2019ve Shield Sawed your last demon in half. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: iD Software \/ Claire Jackson \/ Kotaku Doom The Dark Ages is an interesting little beast. 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