Sod Hauler
Graves at Sea
Wormwood

Some others I can't think of.

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CATHEDRAL

My name is Hopkins,
I'm the Witchfinder General...

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Disembowelment and Dream Death are up there on my list they are Quasi Death metal bands but doomy, another good band is Winter, and of COurse the already mentioned Witchfinder General

Cathedral, Trouble and Candlemass...

There's a lot of good Doom Bands, i don't understand why the most of them are so underrated....

Candlemass and of course, Black Sabbath.

High on Fire, Electric wizard....

Don't get me wrong, I like black sabbath, but they are a bit overrated, I mean all they really did was poorly immitate the blues style at the time, even though they supposably did "invent" metal. I heard the first band to actually come out to write that kind of stuff was some band called "Iron Butterfly"

Black Sabbath are so good, so I wouldnt say anything to disrespect them.
Cunt face.

sabbath are doom metal? wtf is doom metal

Doom Metal - Kinda slow, and has a "doomy" sorta sound, usually low, or at least heavy. Vocals can be clean, or typical growl and scream (though screams not as much). Or at least that's what I think it is.

And I didn't know that BS was Doom metal either, but now that I think about it, they are.

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wow a doom metal thread, sweet deal, anyway this is where i got started in metal, hmm some of my favorites

Black Sabbath
Cathedral
St. Vitus
Candlemass
Runemagick (sort of death/doom)
wormwood
my dying bride (sort of, don't bitch at me for this)

i'm gonna go check out the other bands you guys mentioned that i dont have yet




doom in general is often underrated because it isn't terribly complex or brutal, it relies more on songwriting *shrug* ok i'm too tired to think but yeah, it's still my fav genre, probly cause black sabbath changed my life

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Doom is slow metal that usually has growled vocals. Most doom bands use the Acoustic and Distorted Electric combinations in their songs. (fuck, I'm not good at explaining this)

Here is an example. A song of agalloch's (not their best by any standard, but the only MP3 I could find).

Agalloch - I am the Wooden Doors

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Please people... it's all about Worship.

dISEMBOWELMENT (sic), easily.

Lacrimas Profundere (early)
Katatonia (early)
Anathema (early)
October Tide
Rapture
Esoteric
...

Read this for definition of doom metal: http://doom-metal.com/whatisdoom.html

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DAMN RIGHT!!!

add Sabbath and My Dying Bride (just cause they started it for me), Shape of Despair, Skepticism and i dunno how about Saturnus.

other good doom is Novembers Doom, the 3rd and the Mortal, the Prophecy, the Funeral Orchestra etc...

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Electric Wizard
Khanate
Cathedral
Trouble
and My Dying Bride if you consider them
as a doom band

Apart from Black Sabbath, the only doom band that I'll listen to is High On Fire. Pretty decent racket for a three-piece.

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hey Nomadski if you like Esoteric you should check out Skepticism...not the same style per se, but its pretty epic...i'm sure when you first heard Esoteric you were blown away as i was, and Skepticism should do the same.

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Yes

Your avatar kicks ass, who is it? I tried doing that with a Yattering clip but couldn't figure out how to do it.

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There's a lot of debate about who invented metal, mostly because experiments with distortion and metal-style riffs abounded in the mid- to late-60s. Some people will say Iron Butterfly for 'In-a-Gadda-da-Vida;' some Hendrix for things like 'Fire,' 'Foxy Lady,' and 'Purple Haze;' some Clapton for riffs like 'Sunshine of Your Love;' some people credit Pete Townshend; some people credit Steppenwolf, especially since they came up with the term 'heavy metal;' some will give it to Led Zeppelin because, well, why the hell not? I remember discussing this with a music teacher in high school and having him whip out some record from '64 with some band I hadn't heard of - and can't remember the name of - playing a distorted riff that sounded something like 'Foxy Lady.' I still stick with Sabbath because, regardless of the fact that they aren't the first to turn on the distortion and play a blues riff over in the first position, they're the people who stuck with it and developed it. Everyone else has maybe a riff or two, whereas Iommi has classic riff after classic riff, all of which are definitely metal. And though they did start out very bluesy, and fortunately never lost the blues feel completely, riffs like 'Into the Void,' 'Children of the Grave,' 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,' 'Sympton of the Universe,' etc, are not like the heavy blues that people had been playing before. They're metal, and that's worth noting, because nothing really had sounded like that before. Plus, lest we forget, he's the guy who put his riffs into C# tuning for a little extra balls.

As for doom, I never really got into it.

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i dont know much about doom metal.

When i heard My dying bride it sounded like doom to me.
I dont have fucking clue as to how black sabbath is doom...
Is Type o negative doom?
Argentum was pretty doom sounding to me as well
But black sabbath??? isnt that fucking rock ("n roll")?

type o negative is goth metal

Doom is more or less latter day Sabbath; so, retroactively, one might say Sabbath is doom. I wouldn't.

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type o negative could be doom, goth metal isn't a genre it's a style, for example if a band talks about sex and vampires in their lyrics, wears all black and shit but does instrumentation like nile, they have goth stylings but are deaht metal. type o has goth styling but definitely could be considered doom... that being said add them to my favorite doom list

oh yeah and i'd call novembers doom more melodic death, tho i guess that one is a cross genre band, they kick ass though.

and thanks for mentioning some doom i haven't heard of, i'm checking alot of them out now

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Yeh, I've got their Stormcrowfleet album a few weeks ago. I like it, but it still needs a few more listens, I never heard anything like that before.

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I thought it was kinda weird no one mentioned bands like sun O))), sleep, goatsnake, earth, spirit caravan & hidden hand & obsessed, unearthly trance, or warhorse. Also i've been getting into reverend bizarre lately. anyone into this band? great stuff.

black sabbath
cathedral
iron monkey
sleep

all quite good bands.

O.K. The cover of "Black Sabbath" by Type o Negative on the "Nativity in Black" tribute, it's the most Doom song i've heard....

An Aussie melodic death-doom band The Eternal for me Also, My Dying Bride. I'm not much into doom, I only like death-doom. Paradise lost's "Gothic" was awesome.

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sunn 0))) :-D drone-doom at its finest

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Sweet, this is my style of metal. Hm, some bands then:

-Reverend Bizarre
-Electric Wizard
-Saint Vitus
-Woods of Belial
-Candlemass
-Krux
-Black Manta
-Black Sabbath (obviously)
-Worship
-Doomvs
-Aarni
-Grief
-Shape of Despair
-Planet Gemini
-Trouble
-Solitude Aeternus
-Witchfinder General
-Starchild
-Serpent Rise
-Orodruin
-Count Raven
-the Warning
-Minotauri

Doom metal is quite hard genre to define, but traditional doom is mostly brutal, the best example would be of course the song "Black Sabbath", quite minimalistic playing and harsh, 'doomy' sounds. And what comes to the subcategories, they can be pretty much anything, as funeral doom is often ultra -slow music combined with deep growls etc. Sometimes doom can be even quite up-tempo too, such as Planet gemini, but they are still doom because of their 'image' and the main concept of the music.

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i joined a doom band a few months ago and thought i wouldnt like it and probably would leave after a week. but im really getting into, the band im in and the genre as whole. its good to see alot of southernlord records bands have been mentioned.

thorr's hammer
asunder
yob
his hero is gone has some slow tracks
earth
sleep
spancer

also wierd slow experimental stuff that kinda isnt metal per say

harvey milk
melvins

im more into the harsher stuff than the stoner riff rock/acid rock stuff but some of that is good too

drone-doom...

Final
Asva
Sunn 0)))

other...

Saturnus (One of my fave bands ever)
Novembers Doom
My Dying Bride

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Damn i can't believe this i didn't spot anyone who mentioned Mourning Beloveth
I think Paddy will back me up saying their probaly the best Doom Band Maybe Except Cathedral........
Especially the Album: A Murderous Circus by Mourning Beloveth.

Proper good band

Esoteric
My Dying Bride
Anathema
Cathederal

all float my doom-filled boat

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Bongzilla
Eyehategod
Electric Wizard
Sleep
Buried at Sea
Khanate
Black Sabbath
High on Fire
Coffins
Datura

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Forest Stream, fucking kickass.

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Sunn O))), Earth, Anathema, and Type O Negative if it counts.

fucking great band.

Swallow The Sun are also pretty awesome, and Mar De Gris.

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Asunder
Graves At Sea
Bongzilla
grief.....if you want to call them doom.

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i recently saw noosebomb, which has members of grief, they had more of a thrash sound, pretty good

what are they like? that's an awesome name

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google thier site, i was there listening to the mp3s yesterday, good band, real awesome guitar tone

Doom is an awesome genre... there is a fair bit of difference between "doom" and "doom metal" so it's hard to talk about alot of the time. but anyway, here are a few of my fave doom/doom metal bands

5ive
Agalloch
Black Forest
Bongzilla
Catacombs
Despond
Electric Wizard
Forest Stream
Funeral (UAE)
Modern Funeral Art
My Dying Bride
Shape Of Despair
Skepticism
Sleep
Stabat Mater
Sunn 0)))
The Funeral Orchestra
Woods Of Belial

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diSEMBOWELMENT
Sunn o))
Candlemass
Funeral (NOR)
Thergothon
Fall of The Grey-Winged One
Hierophant
Winter
Earth (earlier stuff)

Almost forgot about Esoteric.

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Shit! I did forget about Esoteric

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theres doom-metal.com i think the site has bandsite links to just about band mentioned on this thread and you can get the online radio station with itunes or whatever online radio software you got

Drone: SunnO))), Boris (some), (old) Earth, Thrones
Death Doom: dISEMBOWELMENT
Sludge Doom: Eyehategod, Cavity, Floor,
Stoner Doom: Sleep, Elecric Wizard, Yob
Crusty Doom: Noothgrush, Dystopia
Just Doom: Sabbath, Saint Vitus, The Obsessed
JAP Doom: Corrupted, Coffins, Dot[.], Church Of Misery


Every thing is the best at an extreme (i.e. Very slow or Very fast)!!

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is that another band or do you mean black sabbaths original name?

EDIT: no, im not familiar with doom metal.

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it's another band.

graves at sea

um.... www.myspace.com/fuckinggravesatsea

(dunno whether that is the right add for them)

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oh yeah, if you like noisey/punky sort of doom, then check out toadliquor

if you like viking doom (whatever that is) check out thor's hammer (aaaah, viking) - though I don't think they even put anything onto a CD, just tapes. Anyway, does anyone know if the woman in thor's hammer did the growls as well as the operatic stuff?

or, just go to the southern lord records webshite....there's a shit load of stoner-doom there....

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she does, thorr's hammer only recorded a 4 song demo then split in like 95

Ahh shit, forgot about the legendary Pentagram, though it's not 'pure' doom, it's still awesome!

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Novembers Doom
and Rosenguard (old guitar teachers band, fuckin awsome)

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http://www.doom-metal.com/

I think my brother met either Salvador Raya or his brother of Asunder at a house party.

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I haven't heard much doom but I like Cathedral for what I've heard of them.
"Yeah, Lucifera, yeah!"

An old song of theirs, I think it was Cathedral anyway, came on telly a bit ago, it had like really cadaverous-sounding death metal vox in it and the video had tons of graveyard images in it, anyone know it? The name wasn't mentioned...

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THOR'S Hammer is a nazi black metal band. THORR'S Hammer is different and doom if anyone was wondering.

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That's the one.

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Coffins are great.

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I like:

My Dying Bride
Anathema
Officium Triste
Bethzaida
Esoteric
Mourning Beloveth
Dolorian
Evoken
saturnus

and so on...

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it's thrash metal dude

the other is one doom metal with death metal influences

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Cool, going to see Candlemass next monday!

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There must be two because I was thinking these guys...
http://nsbm.com/bands/thorshammer/index.html

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i've recently got into Ocean (not to be confused with The Ocean)...its heavy as fuck doom. so, so, so, good.

couldn't find an official site but this is a review of the album I just got and woah...three tracks of heaviness.

http://importantrecords.com/images/...elease_page.htm

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awesome, cheers man

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