An illustrious name on the American Doom circuit. Chicago's NOVEMBERS DOOM arrived in 1991 making an immediate impact with their combination of both male and female lead vocals and monolithic slabs of dirge driven Metal. NOVEMBERS DOOM have supported the likes of OPETH, MOONSPELL, AMORPHIS, OBITUARY and LACUNA COIL as well as putting in numerous headline status gigs.

The band, coming together in 1989, had previously operated as Thrash Metal merchants LACERATION with a line-up of vocalist Paul Kuhr III, former FULL METAL ELVIS guitarist Steve Nicholson, second vocalist Cathy Joe Henja and drummer Jim Dobleski. As LACERATION the band issued the opening demo 'The Way Of All Flesh', adopting a Death / Doom approach for a second demo session 'Scabs' and the subsequent 'Ripping Avulsion' 7" vinyl single. In 1991 the band adopted the title of NOVEMBERS DOOM and set a strictly Doom course from that point on.

A deal with the Italian Regress label led in turn to the debut 1995 album 'Amid Its Hallowed Mirth' recorded for Avantgarde Music. This album would also see issue via Regress Records. At this stage NOVEMBERS DOOM replaced Dobleski with new drummer Joe Hernandez.

NOVEMBERS DOOM would attract a glut of press by drafting the sultry Mary Bielich on bass, a veteran of MASTER MECHANIC, Dana Duffey's MYTHIC, WORMHOLE and DERKETA. With this revised line-up NOVEMBERS DOOM, retaining just Kuhr and Hejna from the debut, weighed in with the 1997 three track EP 'For Every Leafe That Falls'. Newly onboard would be guitarist Eric Burnley alongside Abbas Jaffary of EMBER manning the drum stool and additional guest guitar courtesy of Erik Kikke of AVERNUS. Meantime, both Kuhr and Bielich would also participate in BROKEN HOPE guitarist Brian Griffin's side act EM SINFONIA.

Griffin would produce the 1998 outing 'Of Sculptured Ivy And Stone Flowers'. Session drums for this release were handled by Sascha Horn. Erik Kikke would also contribute his talents once more. Post release NOVEMBERS DOOM enrolled ex-DEAD SERENADE guitarist Larry Roberts and drummer Joe Nunez. The latter was previously with NEUROTOXIN. The drummer was also involved with DEBRIS, the 'Super-Doom' project of TROUBLE's Ron Holzner and ST. VITUS' Dave Chandler.

The 2000 roster of NOVEMBERS DOOM for the album 'The Knowing', co-produced by the band and Chris Djuricec, saw the band stabilizing around Kuhr, Burnley, Roberts, Bielich and Nunez. Burnley would also involve himself as part of the spoof Black Metal band THOTH.

In April 2001 NOVEMBERS DOOM put in a showing at the New England 'Hardcore & Metal' festival. Bielich would decamp though to join Pennsylvania Stoners PENANCE. She would also figure on the scene as part of the political Punk band BEHIND ENEMY LINES.

The debut 'Amid It's Hallowed Mirth' would be re-released through the Dark Symphonies label complete with extra tracks. Studio recordings later that year for the 2002 album 'To Welcome The Fade' issued by Dark Symphonies, with highly respected producer Neil Kernon at the helm, would see bass duties in the capable hands of session recruits Brian Gordon of ION VEIN and famed TROUBLE four stringer Ron Holzner. The NOVEMBERS DOOM line up for 2002 stood at Paul Kuhr on vocals, guitarists Eric Burnley and Larry Roberts, AVERNUS and EVE OF MOURNING man Brian Whited on bass with Joe Nunez on drums. Another round of changes occurred in April of 2003 as Burnley exited to be superseded by Vito Marchese. At the same juncture bass player Mike LeGros of DISINTER (as "Rectum Wrecker"), JUNGLE ROT and NACHTMYSTIUM, who had been filling in temporarily, was announced as a full time member for recording of a new studio album tentatively titled 'Ascension'.

Paul Kuhr would donate his vocals to the 2004 SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE album 'Temporary Psychotic State'. NOVEMBERS DOOM partnered with THE GATHERING and AGALLOCH for a batch of February East Coast dates. The group also put in appearances at the 'Doomsday Fest' in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in January and the 'Chicago Powerfest' in Lansing, Illinois. This activity culminated in the band's signature to a label deal with The End Records in June. The first product under this new regime would be a re-issue of 'To Welcome the Fade' adding a bonus CD comprising unreleased material in live songs recorded earlier in the year and the entire, long out-of-print EP 'For Every Leaf That Falls'.

The band would utilise the skills of the industrious DAN SWANȪ of BLOODBATH, EDGE OF SANITY and NIGHTINGALE repute to mix the 'The Pale Haunt Departure' album. Mike LeGros exited upon completion of these sessions as Brian Whited made a return to the ranks.

NOVEMBERS DOOM scheduled dates for its first European headlining tour in November 2006, being supported by AGALLOCH, THURISAZ and Denmark's SATURNUS.

The End Records released 'The Novella Reservoir' in February 2007, these sessions recorded with Chris Djuricic, mixed by DAN SWANȪ and mastered by JAMES MURPHY of TESTAMENT, CANCER and DEATH. The first 300 copies of the album came complete with a booklet of Paul Kuhr's lyrics entitled 'The Wayfaring Chronicles'.

Unveiled in mid 2008, THESE ARE THEY, was Death Metal band featuring vocalist Paul Kuhr III, guitarist Steve Nicholson, ex-NOVEMBERS DOOM, guitarist Michael LeGros, of DISINTER and EARTHEN, bassist Wiley Wells, from EARTHEN, and drummer Evan Berry. Demos were recorded in August.

Longstanding NOVEMBERS DOOM drummer Joe Nunez closed a decade long tenure when he vacated in October 2008. The band pulled in former member Sasha Horn, who had featured on 'Of Sculptured Ivy And Stone Flowers', as replacement.