“Vigil For A Hollowed Earth”
Mortal Blood further evolves their Doom Metal sound with the band’s fourth album (fifth release).
“Vigil For A Hollowed Earth” is a 10-track album that has moments of being poetic and mournful, while also oppressive and heavy. This album is heavy, melodic, and immersive.
Mortal Blood is a Doom Metal band from Maryland blending slow, atmospheric weight with melodic and gothic elements. The music draws from traditional doom, with touches of death and black metal, creating deliberate, dense, immersive compositions. All music is written and performed by Dan Krell.
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Mortal Blood Announces February 20, 2026 Release of Vigil For A Hollowed Earth
The new album deepens the project’s atmospheric, deliberate approach to doom metal.
Montgomery County, MD — December 27, 2025
Mortal Blood announces the release of Vigil For A Hollowed Earth, the project’s fourth full-length album (fifth overall release), arriving February 20, 2026.
Based in Montgomery County, Maryland, Mortal Blood continues to evolve its doom metal foundation into darker and more expansive territory. Vigil For A Hollowed Earth deepens the project’s blend of doom, gothic, black, and death metal, emphasizing atmosphere, melody, and emotional weight alongside crushing heaviness.
Clean and gothic vocal passages drift through sorrow-laden soundscapes, while death-doom and extreme vocals cut sharply through dense, oppressive arrangements. Across its ten tracks, the album moves between poetic mourning and suffocating intensity, creating a heavy, immersive listening experience that favors mood and gravity over excess. These themes are presented through compositions built on sustained tension, pacing, repetition, and layered textures.
Mortal Blood is a Doom Metal Band from Maryland blending slow, atmospheric weight with melodic and gothic elements. The music draws from traditional doom, with touches of death and black metal, creating deliberate, dense, immersive compositions. All music is written and performed by Dan Krell.
Reviews of Vigil For A Hollowed Earth
Musipedia of Metal – “…You don’t simply “listen” to a record like this; you inhabit it. Vigil For A Hollowed Earth is an album for the long nights, for when the world feels too hollow and the ground feels too far away. Mortal Blood haven’t just made a doom record; they’ve created a cinematic account of survival in a hardening world. It’s honest, it’s expansive, and it stands as one of the most immersive independent releases to hit the desk this year, a grim, necessary document for a world that has forgotten how to mourn…” (Read the entire review by Spike!)
Doomed For Metal Reviews – “…With “Vigil for a Hallowed Earth,” Mortal Blood continues to be a breath of fresh air for the doom genre and metal in general. This is an esoteric experience that may not appeal to those without the acquired taste so shut up and go acquire it….” (Read entire review!)
Doom Heart – “…Enjoy this wonderfully emotional, captivating and immersive Piece of Gothic Art! Top Notch Songwriting for a marvelous Kaleidoscope of soundscapes and emotions, and an unmistakable sound, enhanced by Dan amazingly versatile vocals!” (Read entire review by Morpheus!)
The Obelisk – “…Vigil for a Hollowed Earth revels on its way to grim accomplishment…” (Read entire review!)
Mortal Blood’s Discography