BETHEL, N.Y. — You sit on the big stage watered by the blue spotlights while the Big Pink Band plays Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” and you look out into the eyes of the monster. It has been there ...

There have been a lot of really great, long-form doom metal records coming out lately. I know long songs have always been a genre trope. Still, there are more albums now clearing the seventy-minute ...