Doom metal

Nodferatu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpAi0Srfqtk

dagaz11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT0CfoisR4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPuj8lHQ2R8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzOLCBB2v2A

Josh_Calvert

People seem to be only mentioning stonerish doom bands....The two most crushing doom bands of the last few years would be Warning and Funeral....music so bleak it should come with a mental health warning.

BlaasForRafa

It all depends on the type of Doom you're into. At the moment its Pentagram/Pagan Altar/SHeavy thats doing it for me. I'm not sure whether you'd call them stoner though, labels don't really matter when the music is this good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1x_UZ6_Crs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3LKkNXdiOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j7R0JRtA98

Nodferatu

nice selections^^

here's some candlemass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uvf0cn0jo

Josh_Calvert

Candlemass are the only properly doom band mentioned so far...IMHO that is.

Awesome band.

John

Josh_Calvert wrote: »

Candlemass are the only properly doom band mentioned so far...IMHO that is.

Awesome band.

Yeah because the likes of Saint Vitus and Pentagram aren't doom at all...

Nodferatu

speaking of pentagram, im listening to alot of them right now, i missed in 2009

John

Too bad, it was a great gig and it looked like it wasn't going to happen (they cancelled their UK dates at the same time as the Dublin gig) so to actually see them was fantastic.


Pentagram by kealyj, on Flickr

Nodferatu

:rolleyes: awesome picture, mad stage antics id say. i hope they come over play a show again!!

John

Me too. I think Bobby said they'd be back but I'll believe it when I see it.

AaronEnnis

Great weekend of gigs that was....September 27th 2009 wasnt it?

Advance tracks from the new album have been played.... apparently they sound a lot like the 'Be Forewarned' material.

InigoMontoya

Krux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz8Dt6Dp3BE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaOri0Z4gk

Nodferatu

the new Pentagram album artwork revealed

Dyr

Nodferatu wrote: »

the new Pentagram album artwork revealed

This is the single most ground breaking and well executed cover art that I have ever seen.

fobster

Bucking deadly!

Useful.Idiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR7VwuKK3cY

Think someone posted a link to Mourning Beloveth already but everybody show some respect to Ireland's 2nd biggest metal musical export! Fantastic and crushing band! Great live too!

Nodferatu

i got the new crowbar cd today, its ****ing good.

Somnus

Glad I decided to pay a visit to this thread. This is a genre I never really looked into and I have to say I'm really liking some of it.

Still have the majority of videos to work through but the standout so far is definitely Ahab. That track is brilliant. Listening to more of that album on youtube and it is immense. Nice one Denny M!

So what would be the quintessential doom bands? I know the genre seems to have more variation than I'd have thought so there could be some arguments over which bands should be included

Nodferatu

well if you want my advise you should start with these bands, then you will discover a tonne more, im no expert in the genre im relatively new been listening to doom for about 2 - 3 years, not that long but i started off with Vitus... black sabbath is another, there are alot of sub genre's etc like stoner doom, funeral doom, sludge doom but im not into all this sub genres and multi tagging bands, its all metal at the end of the day it just depends in what you like listening to
start with these and you cant go wrong....
Pentagram
St. Vitus
Candlemass
Sleep
Cathedral
Electric Wizard

AaronEnnis

Dr.Poca wrote: »

Glad I decided to pay a visit to this thread. This is a genre I never really looked into and I have to say I'm really liking some of it.

Still have the majority of videos to work through but the standout so far is definitely Ahab. That track is brilliant. Listening to more of that album on youtube and it is immense. Nice one Denny M!

So what would be the quintessential doom bands? I know the genre seems to have more variation than I'd have thought so there could be some arguments over which bands should be included

Basically, for classic doom, you need:

Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory of The Bizarre Reverend
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Scald - Will of The Gods Is Great Power
Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths of Sorrow
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Pagan Altar - Volume 1
Solstice - Lamentations

Start with them Id say.

Ray C

I love a lot of the doom/death bands like Mourning Beloveth, My Dying Bride, Mournful Congregation, Remembrance.
I also listen to bands like Pentagram, Black Sabbath, Pagan Altar, Cathedral, Count Raven etc.
The best doom album I've heard in years is Griftegard's 'Sacred, Solemn, Severe'. An absolutely breathtaking slab of doom!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbcEUmWxuAA

AaronEnnis

Griftegard are great stuff indeed. Really enjoyed their performance at DDDII, as it was at a stage where I was sober enough to actually focus on the bands playing. Got their split with Count Raven too, its deadly..

Ray C

AaronEnnis wrote: »

Griftegard are great stuff indeed. Really enjoyed their performance at DDDII, as it was at a stage where I was sober enough to actually focus on the bands playing. Got their split with Count Raven too, its deadly..

DDII was quiet possibly the best gig I've ever been to! Hour of 13 were amazing.
The Griftegard/Count Raven split is class alright.

Marry

Useful.Idiot - Mags?
Either way, I agree....MB are **** heavy. I tihnk a better example of their heaviness is The Burning Man...I think I'll actually just put in on now....Full blast on my speakers...which are located 1 inch from my ears..and die a little ha.

Check out Graveyard Dirt, Fook heavy..slow..gothic-like doom, melancholic in points. Deadly nonetheless. New album is called For Grace or Damnation and previous release is named Shadows of Old Ghosts (I prefer that one myself).

MetalDog

Witchfinder General are worth a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxAjkKTge8

can't have a doom thread without them.

Useful.Idiot

Marry wrote: »

Useful.Idiot - Mags?
Either way, I agree....MB are **** heavy. I tihnk a better example of their heaviness is The Burning Man...I think I'll actually just put in on now....Full blast on my speakers...which are located 1 inch from my ears..and die a little ha.

Check out Graveyard Dirt, Fook heavy..slow..gothic-like doom, melancholic in points. Deadly nonetheless. New album is called For Grace or Damnation and previous release is named Shadows of Old Ghosts (I prefer that one myself).

It is indeed Mr. Marry! Can't bate MB! And yeah I must really get my hands on Graveyard Dirts newest...reviews are saying its phenomenal!

Ray C

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

It is indeed Mr. Marry! Can't bate MB! And yeah I must really get my hands on Graveyard Dirts newest...reviews are saying its phenomenal!

True!!!!!

ElvisChrist6

Doom metal is one, I've found, to have a particularly misleading name. Anytime I mention liking doom metal, people think it's some goth ****, but there's some really amazing stoner/doom metal stuff out there! Sleep would be my favourite, though they're an obvious one! I think Sleep's Holy Mountain is one of the best metal albums of the 90's! Dragonaut reminds me a lot of Master of Reality era-Sabbath, but the Druid is my favourite! Then, as well, there's Electric Wizard and then The Blood Farmers' Orgy of Rats album. Some amazing shtuff!

Ray C

I listened to My Dying Bride's 'The Angel And The Dark River' for the first time in ages today! Stunning album, dripping with melancholy. I can't wait for the gig!