UK sludge/doom metal duo Goblinsmoker presents their debut album »The King’s Eternal Throne«; out today via APF Records!

Durham, UK based sludge/doom metal duo Goblinsmoker presents their debut album, »The King’s Eternal Throne«, which was just released this Friday, July 25th, 2025 via APF Records.

Tracklist:
01. Shamanic Rites
02. Burn Him
03. The King’s Eternal Throne
04. Toad King (Forest Synth Offering)

Courtesy of APF Records:

The third and final chapter of the Toad King trilogy is nearly upon us. Goblinsmoker are ready to complete the story they began deep in the goblin-infested forests of their imagination. »The King’s Eternal Throne« is the climactic instalment: the King’s fate revealed, a long-buried plan uncovered, and the final reckoning drawn in smoke and haze.

Goblinsmoker began in late 2016 as a one-man project out of Durham, with a mission: to fuse the bleak, atmospheric weight of black metal with the fuzz-drenched riff worship of doom — and to build a full-blown mythology to go with it. From the outset, this wasn’t just music. It was a world.

At the centre of that world: the Toad King, a discontented ruler of goblins whose subjects willingly sacrifice themselves to be smoked by their monarch in a twisted act of loyalty and transcendence. That tale – part folklore, part fever dream – would come to life across a trilogy of concept releases.

With the debut instalment nearly written, Goblinsmoker became a duo and entered the studio. The result, Toad King, was released in 2018 and sold out within days, driven by word of mouth and a mere 20-second music clip. A second pressing sold even faster.

Live shows followed. The band expanded to a trio and brought the Toad King to the stage, translating the thick atmosphere of the records into a slow-burning, immersive live experience. While gigging, they began work on part two.

»A Throne In Haze, A World Ablaze« pushed the story forward: the Toad King, led astray by a goblin shaman, wages war on his own kind. The album was recorded in late 2019 and released in early 2020. That same year, Goblinsmoker played Fall Of Man in Munich, and in 2021 shared stages with Conan and headlined shows at New Cross Inn and Fell Foot Wood.

In late 2021, the Toad King wrote to APF Records. We were summoned. We answered. That letter led to the band’s first APF release, the Sweet Paravoid EP, released in September 2022 – a cult hit that laid the groundwork for what comes next.

Now, the trilogy concludes. The goblins have seized power. The forest burns with secrets. Every move the Toad King made is exposed for what it really was. This is the end of the path – the final fog-drenched chapter in a saga six years in the making.

Recorded and mixed by Joe Clayton at No Studio.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Art by Adam C Design.

Order »The King’s Eternal Throne« here:
apfrecords.co.uk/bands/goblinsmoker
goblinsmoker.bandcamp.com

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well