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Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres. [6] Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. [2]
- Early to mid 1970s, United Kingdom and United States
Doom metal is a slow style of metal music, often focused on heavy, downtuned guitars. The tempos are slow and the music tends to have a bleak atmosphere. The vocals can range from clean, operatic vocals to death metal growls or other extreme sounds. Black Sabbath is considered the first metal band, as well as the first doom metal band.
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- Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus (1984) As the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal gained traction, it inspired an international subsect of bands blending the bombast and pageantry of this fresh sound with the sluggish pace of Sabbath.
- Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) Similar to Metallica and Napalm Death, Candlemass didn’t invent doom metal with their debut album, but they definitely built a measuring stick against which every future genre band would get compared.
- Paradise Lost – Icon (1993) Most bands go down in history for pioneering one genre. Paradise Lost pioneered two. In the early ’90s, the Northern nihilists co-wrote the parameters for death/doom with the rest of the “Peaceville three” (My Dying Bride and Anathema) by making death metal slow and sad.
- Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000) “Stoner doom” blew up in the 1990s thanks to Sleep and Kyuss, and Electric Wizard were a distinctly British answer to that largely American scene.
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May 16, 2024 · Through perseverance, innovation, and raw power, Count Raven has solidified their place among the best doom metal bands. Lists that rank the greatest bands and artists in every metal genre. Over 1K music fans have voted on the 40+ Best Doom Metal Bands, Ranked. Current Top 3: Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Electric Wizard.
- Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath. Obviously. Even though doom wasn’t a thing at the time – indeed, in the ’70s ‘heavy metal’ was an insult; something lumpen and downfacing – with this opening throw from their self-titled debut, Sabbath can be credited with not only drawing the line in the sand between heavy rock and the newer, more sinister sound of metal, but also defined a shadowy corner of it that would slowly bloom over the next half a century.
- Pagan Altar – Judgement Of The Dead. One thing you will learn from this list: many, many of the bands who would go on to become highly influential cornerstones of doom had to age and mature before finally getting the respect they deserve from a generation after their own, their names often surviving on bootlegs and the enthusiasm of a handful of dyed-in-the-wool doom maniacs.
- Witchfinder General – Witchfinder General. Straight outta Stourbridge, what Witchfinder General brought to the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was a sense of an older England, one where witches and magic lurked in every tavern, public executions were a good afternoon out and, um, where you sniffed up speed ‘through a biro case’ (as they sang on the drug-menu that was Free Country).
- Trouble – The Tempter. The legend goes that during a show with Chicago’s Trouble waaaaay back in the day, Metallica were so envious of guitarists Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell’s guitar tones that they snuck onstage and wrote down their amp settings for themselves.
Apr 21, 2020 · Thergothon – Stream From The Heavens. In the early ‘90s, doom sank into a quagmire of suffocatingly inaccessible extremity, bands like Winter, Eyehategod, Disembowelment and Unholy twisting the genre into horrifying new shapes. None were more horrifying than the non-Euclidian geometry of Finnish pioneers Thergothon, whose sole LP is a ...
Livin' in a Ram's Head / When the Screams Come. Pentagram. 1979 Single. 3.61 100 3. Burning a Sinner / Satan's Children. Witchfinder General. 1981 Single. 3.63 168 6. The Horned God of the Witches.
