Out of the Garden LP

Traditional doom in 2015 was supposed to be a museum piece, and then Crypt Sermon's Out of the Garden showed up sounding like it actually meant it. The Philadelphia band, anchored by vocalist Brooks Wilson and drummer Enrique Sagarnaga, leaned hard into the Solitude Aeturnus and Candlemass playbook (Wilson's voice draws the same Robert Lowe comparisons) with hooks and clean production sharp enough that critics still cite it as one of the genre revival's sturdiest records. Dark Descent put it out originally; this pressing lands on green vinyl.