Footage of Endtime and Concrete Winds live at Bar Brooklyn, Stockholm

Endtime on stage at Bar Brooklyn

At the moment we are writing this, it's been just a few hours since Concrete Winds have annihilated the stage at Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm, alongside apocalyptic doomers Endtime opening the evening with their brooding soundscapes, and some footage has already appeared on YouTube, courtesy of YT channel @DavidSGrop. On the first video, there's no escape from a fate of heaviness and cosmic terror with Endtime: the clips includes fragments of their song: "Cities On Fire With The Burning Flesh Of Men" (and some more that we don't seem to recall hearing before: possibly new material they've been working on...? -> Updated: confirmed that a new song was performed in this set!)

Endtime live at UKK in Uppsala on April 19th, 2024

Retro styled flyer of course by Endtertainment Studios!

Apocalyptic doomers Endtime have just announced that on April 19th, 2024 they will deliver their gospel of doom at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress!

The event is another of the series Demoteket, this one being the no. 4 (the previous one as you might remember, featured Uppsalas Fria Orkester, an ensemble which includes also Pelle, Gottfrid and Uno of In Solitude) and it is once again organized byUppsala Konsert & Kongress in collaboration with Uppsala Musikdemo .

This time, playing on the same evening also Nazghor and Ordos.

More info and details can be found on the official event page, tickets are already available through Tickster.

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Official Endtime links: Facebook - Instagram - Bandcamp.

Endtime release cover of Massgrav's song "Bl​å​st På Konfekten"

 Apocalyptic doomers Endtime have just unleashed their own version of Massgrav's song "Blåst På Konfekten"!

Endtime have introduced earlier today their cover explaining that:

"Last year the band Massgrav released their album ’Slowly we rock’ (great title, superfast record).  For this they invited a couple of bands to perform Massgrav songs in their own style. Among them, yours truly! So today marks the unleashing of our sonic prophecy! We, the chosen disciples, have harnessed the chaotic energy of Massgrav’s hymn and molded it into our own apocalyptic rendition. Prepare to be consumed by the abyss of our version of the song ’Blåst på konfekten’!"

Indeed, they slowed down the madness to the level of (human) collapse and turned the former high-speed frenzy of the song into their bleak and murky chant of doom: listen to Endtime version of "Blåst På Konfekten" - and find also the original song by Massgrav, here below!

Solstice Feast: A Playlist

It's been a while since we've published a playlist and what better occasion then the Solstice to blast a selection of songs from some of our favourite artists?

 As usual, it is varied and full of twist and turns!

 You can stream the full playlist here below, or directly on our YouTube Channel: whatever you choose, BLAST IT LOUD!
(Please note that, unless you have an Ad blocker software installed, YouTube might insert some advertisements here and there that you have to skip - this is not under our control).


Our 2023 Solstice Feast features:

Endtime release new single "Tunnel of Life" feat. Gottfrid Åhman - split with Cosmic Reaper out in January!

Apocalyptic doomers Endtime have just announced they are about to unleash more of their merciless bleak gospel upon the World soon, through a split album with U.S. psych doom outfit Cosmic Reaper that will be released on January 20th on Heavy Psych Sounds Records!

And what could be more appropriate to celebrate today's huge news than a brand new single, which happens to be Endtime's very own take on DEVO's "Tunnel of Life", casting a gloomy shadow over everything, and that features none other than Gottfrid Åhman on mellotron! The new single can be streamed NOW and you should do yourself the displeasing favor to blast it immediately:

Endtime comment on this new releasing saying that "This is the stuff that dreams are made of! The collective hard work of exposing nihilism and negativity to the masses has paid off. The fruits of our musical and tele-visionary labor will finally be available on Doom Sessions Vol. VII. We’re here to set the record straight by bringing you a cover of the legendary band DEVO and their track ’Tunnel of life’ On this we brought in Gottfrid Åhman from In Solitude, No Future, Invidious and Pågå on the Mellotron. Devo was right! Devo knew! All those crazy prophecies came true!"

There will be plenty of versions to choose from to satisfy any vinyl fetishist's wildest dreams such as test press vinyl and transparent/red splatter black vinyl (both ultra limited editions), 350 copies on violet vinyl, and for the more traditionalist of course the black vinyl, digipack and digital versions.

Tracklist appear to be as follows:

A1 ENDTIME – Tunnel Of Life – 4:30
A2 ENDTIME – Beyond The Black Void – 7:47
B1 COSMIC REAPER – Sundowner – 5:26
B2 COSMIC REAPER – Dead And Loving It – 5:55
B3 COSMIC REAPER – King Of Kings – 7:58


Pre-sales are already open at Heavy Psych Sounds Records' European Shop and U.S. shop so wherever you are, hurry and secure yourself a copy of Doom Sessions VII right in time for the spookiest time of the year!

Stream Endtime 's "Impending Doom" in all its dismal entirety!

Endtime's first full-length "Impending Doom" is out today, March 4th, on Heavy Psych Sounds Records and it's now possible to stream it in all its dismal entirety, premiered on "The Sleeping Shaman"!

After having seen recently two of their official videos, we sure know well enough there's no room to breathe hope in Endtime's music, and this full album stream completely confirms this impression: a feeling of suffocating, thick atmosphere fills your nostrils while the piercing, bleak heaviness of their music enters your ears and makes way to visions of gloom and despair in your mind...yes, it is undeniable that the title couldn't be more appropriate, and when you reach the last song, you will almost feel as you've been transported in the otherworldly desolation of the classic finale in Fulci's "The Beyond".
There's no doubt that Endtime have released a very inspired work of horror made music, and we are sure that many will appreciate their crushingly ominous soundscape as much as we do. Venture the apocalyptic trance pressing play here below:

 Endtime's album "Impending Doom" is out on Heavy Psych Sounds Records and can be acquired in its physical formats on the label's European shop and U.S. shop, while the digital edition can be purchased and streamed on Bandcamp.

Follow Endtime on: Facebook - Instagram

Read more about them in our recent interview: "The end can come in many forms" - an interview with Uppsala's apocalyptic doomers Endtime

"The end can come in many forms" - an interview with Uppsala's apocalyptic doomers Endtime

As anyone following Unearthed Mirrors knows very well by now, we have been often talking and praising Uppsala's preachers of annihilation Endtime, who are committed - as you will read in this interview - to populate people's minds with sounds and visions of disaster and despair.

Musicians in this doom outfit are no strangers to Unearthed Mirrors readers: from hardcore maniacs Undergång, masters of filth Obnoxious Youth, heavy rockers Taiwaz and Noctum, members have then joined forces to spread the oppressive and grim sound of Endtime.


As the release of their first album is approaching (it is due out on March 4th, more details below), we contacted them and asked them about their music, their earth-blowing videos, their horror-themed atmosphere and more. Read below how Endtime musically envision the "Impending Doom"!

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U.M.: Your debut full-length, "Impending Doom", is about to be released in less than a month: can you tell us a bit about the songwriting process? How does an Endtime song typically take shape?

ENDTIME: It goes pretty much like this; Joppe writes a ton of riffs, then usually throws away 90% of them. Then we put the song together, record it and listen to it a couple of times and if it’s good enough we keep it. If it’s too groovy we throw it away. After that Crippe and Affe come up with the lyrics.

U.M.: The album has been recorded at Studio Shitfun in Uppsala: now, the name of the studio surely says it all - and by the way if we remember correctly, Reveal! also recorded in the same studio in the past, too - did the location of the actual recording have any impact on the album?

ENDTIME: Studio Shitfun is more of a concept and state of mind than an actual recording studio at one single location. It’s run by one of our band members therefore it was an easy choice.

U.M.: A question for all the gear nerds out there (we know there are quite a few following UM!): any favourite effects to get the best doom sound and intensify the typical oppressive, unnerving mood of the music (either that you already use or that you would like to use)?

ENDTIME: We use old stuff from the 80s. Big stuff that sounds loud and we use a lot of them. We are more like the burnouts in high school than the geeks when it comes to stuff like this.

U.M.: As you may know, we are super appreciators of your creepy-themed kind of doom. Thematically, it looks like it is more rooted in the good old horror atmosphere rather than dealing with more "earthly" kind of topics, so to say. Did the current state of the World somehow affect the apocalyptic theme of the album or is it completely unrelated to this kind of real-world state of affairs?

ENDTIME: The state of the world just confirms what we always have stated in all our previous bands as well as this one. That the world is on a 200km/h ride straight into an hillside. You reap what you sow and the chickens are coming home to roost. There is nothing more horrifying than the crushing weight of life itself. The overall theme of the album as well as the band itself deals with the end of the world and the end can come in many forms; nuclear war, biological and chemical warfare, catastrophic climate change, ecological collapse, pandemics, asteroid impact and even cosmic horror. That is why both the real threat of mass destruction by nuclear arms as well as the metaphorical threat of a cosmic doom works.

U.M.: In Endtime the music is closely linked to the horror visuals. What is the aspect of horror movies that you prefer to incorporate more in your songs: the creepy and ghastly vibe of the supernatural evil, or rather the disgusting, graphically disturbing impact of gore?

ENDTIME: Both, with everything we do we want to convey a feeling of dread and unease. And sometimes it works best with the creepy vibe and sometimes with the onslaught of ultraviolence to make people uncomfortable.

U.M.: Speaking of tasty stuff, on the label's official presentation, we can read that Endtime "turn amps up to 11, they cause ruptured eardrums and serious dysentery with their sub atomic frequencies". Will the physical effect actually be rather relevant in your shows? As in, are you aiming for some sort of less ritualistic/more nihilistic Sunn O))) kind of gut-shaking experience?

ENDTIME: The live experience of an Endtime show is just as important as the videos, artwork etc. An Endtime live show is accompanied by carefully chosen visuals being projected onto the stage. And sometimes there will even be blood. Yes, our own blood not the fake shit. You won’t be just seeing a band performing the songs while gazing down at their feet.

U.M.: Your latest music video, "Living Graves", is an impressive work of animation inspired by 80s cartoons which depicts, very appropriately, a tale of doom and destruction: would you tell us a bit about the making of the video?

ENDTIME: The idea of making a Saturday morning cartoon style video came up when we realized that making a cosmic horror video as a live action video is way above the resources we have. So making it animated was pretty much the only option we had. And also, we all grew up with that stuff! So our bassplayer worked day and night for about four months doing it the proper old school way of animating it frame by frame. And since it’s us, it’s packed with references to other films, music and places we like.

U.M.: When we spoke to Affe, he told us that you were going to release a video for each song on the album: is this still the plan?

ENDTIME: Yes, that is still the plan. Two down, three to go! All the videos will be done in different styles and when they all are finished the plan is to release them on limited VHS tapes. And since I would say we are fairly creative and with lots of stupid ideas there’s more weird stuff than just videos coming!

U.M.: "Impending Doom" will be released on Heavy Psych Sounds Records: can you tell us a bit about how the collaboration with the label came about?

ENDTIME: Heavy Psych Sounds was the only label with the courage to release an Endtime record. They instantly saw that we held a high standard through and through. With the music, the artwork and the overall package.

U.M.: This is all but, as tradition goes, if there is anything you want to add, feel free to do so and thanks again for your answers!

ENDTIME: Thanks for the support and keep up the good work with Unearthed Mirrors. The end is nigh!

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A huge thank you to Endtime for taking the time to answer our questions!

Photos courtesy of Endtime, still from their video "Living Graves".

Endtime's upcoming album "Impending Doom" will be out on Heavy Psych Sounds Records on March 4th, 2022: LPs, CDs and merchandise can be pre-ordered on the label's European shop or on the U.S. shop.

Follow Endtime on: Facebook - Instagram

Endtime are:
Joppe Ebbeson: Guitar
Daniel Johansson: Guitar
Nicke Björnör: Drums
Afshin ’Affe’ Piran: Bass
Christian Chatfield: Vocals

Endtime release impressive animated video for their song "Living Graves"

Our favourite apocalyptic doomers Endtime have just released a truly amazing music video for their song "Living Graves": inspired by 80s cartoons, it depicts, needless to say, a terrible, literally explosive, end of the world, taken over by some nasty creatures of ungodly size and shape.

The whole animation has been created by Affe, bass player of Endtime, also member of Obnoxious Youth (whom by the way we interviewed some time ago) and he has really done an incredible job. A perfect match to the song, which shatters hopes in everyone's mind with its dope, powerful riffs and shrieking vocals.

"Living Graves" is taken from Endtime's upcoming album "Impending Doom", out on Heavy Psych Sounds Records on March 4th, 2022: pre-orders are now open on the label's European shop as well as on the U.S. shop.

Follow Endtime on: Facebook - Instagram

Endtime premiere "Harbinger of Disease", pre-orders for upcoming album now open!

If you suddenly feel like an impending doom is lurking behind the corner, it's not your anxiety nor the extra drink you had yesterday: it's the arrival of "Hardbinger of Disease", the first track premiere from Endtime's upcoming album!

The song has premiered today on The Sleeping Shaman alongside its fittingly grim and dismal official video, and the band commented:

" 'Harbinger Of Disease' is the first single from Endtime‘s forthcoming LP entitled Impending Doom. Five minutes and eleven seconds of bleak nihilistic doom metal. The sound of a plague unending, a famine unceasing, a drought unquenched..."

Indeed, the oppressive atmosphere is so thick here, that not even Jason's machete would cut it - and the caustic vocals will slowly erode your flesh until nothing is left.

Surely Endtime have in store the kind of doom we enjoy the most - drenched in horror, bleak, corrosive and heavy. We are most definitely looking forward to hearing the whole album.

"Impending Doom", the band's debut full-length, will be out on Heavy Psych Sounds Records on March 4th, 2022, and pre-orders are now open both on the label's European shop and on the U.S. shop - several choices available: test press vinyl, three striped coloured LP, splatter blue/red LP, black LP, and digipack.
Of course there is also a properly apocalyptic t-shirt to wear your doom, and the he digital version can be acquired on Bandcamp.

Follow Endtime on: Facebook - Instagram

Endtime signs with Heavy Psych Sounds Records to release their debut album

Time for big announcements from our favourite apocalyptic doomers Endtime: the band has just signed a deal with Heavy Psych Sounds Records, which will release their debut album worldwide! The first single will be unveiled on November 24th, 2021 and on the same day the label will open the pre-orders for Endtime's upcoming album.

"Endtime are honored to announce that we now are a part of the family that is Heavy Psych Sounds Records - comments the band on the official announcement - "We look forward to spreading our doomsday gospel and would like to extend a salute to Heavy Psych Sounds for having the courage to release our forthcoming album! The end is nigh!"

Having followed Endtime since their early times, when they used to be called Saturniids - name that the band dropped for a more fitting one, as their bass player Affe told us on our interview with him back in January - we are much looking forward to hearing more of their ominous heaviness, which they match perfectly with the whole 80s creepy horror vibe - a combination that we definitely appreciate here, and that possibly lots of other In Solitude listeners also enjoy as much as we do.

Featuring current and ex-members from Obnoxius Youth, Undergång, Taiwaz, Krusus and Noctum, Endtime "don’t believe in groove and they don’t believe in swing. They turn amps up to 11, they cause ruptured eardrums and serious dysentery with their sub atomic frequencies. Endtime are the music equivalent to a nuclear blast" - reads their official bio on Heavy Psych Sounds website.

And we are expecting nothing less!, so long live this new deal and let's get our ears and heads ready to explode like the infamous head in the "Scanners" scene.

ENDTIME is:
Joppe Ebbeson - Guitar
Daniel Johansson - Guitar
Nicke Björnör - Drums
Afshin ’Affe’ Piran - Bass
Christian Chatfield - Vocals

Follow Endtime on: Facebook - Instagram

Affe Piran of Obnoxious Youth: "The main purpose will always be to communicate complete and utter chaos"

Affe Piran on stage with Obnoxious Youth in Hamburg Photo courtesy of Thomas Ertner

We are thrilled here at Unearthed Mirrors to feature a conversation with a man behind so many projects that we all have been appreciating for quite a long time now: from the speed heavy metal madness of Obnoxious Youth, to the unforgettable artwork of In Solitude's self titled debut album; as well as the apocalyptic doom of Endtime and recently we have also become aware that he is going to be part of another creature we are totally looking forward to: he is in fact also producing nothing less than Reveal!'s upcoming album.
Sure we should not forget to mention that he was in Uppsala's hardcore band Undergång (as you might remember, Uno of In Solitude used to be part of the band, too, and we possibly can't mention them without linking to this historical photo here); and that he also recorded VORUM's death metal assault "Poisoned Void". Indeed, the list could go on and on and by now you have probably guessed that we are talking about none other than Affe Piran, who is mostly known for being the vocalist of Obnoxious Youth, but has been, and is now more than ever, recklessly busy spreading visual and musical blasphemies in a lot of ways. Read below what he had to say about Obnoxious Youth's latest EP "Mouths Sewn Shut", about painting the cover artwork for In Solitude's debut back at the time, about DIY culture, the Reveal!'s album he is producing and more.