The Erlking wrote:I'm also kinda uneducated when it comes to Doom Metal. Let's just say that my all-time favourite is Saint Vitus - S/T (Black Hole comes close though). Can anyone recommend something similar? Pentagram is a good band but nothing I've heard from them is as dark as Vitus on their darkest moments. So any suggestions for DOOOOOOM with thick & dark atmosphere, supernatural horror, lovecraftian lore etc.
Dream Death - Journey Into Mystery, Penance - The Road Revisited/Parallel Corners, Orodruin - Epicurean Mass, Blood Farmers - Blood Farmers. Some of the darkest and heaviest true Doom Metal out there.
I'd say the original The Road Less Travelled is better, although The Road Revisited is definitely easier to find.
How's the rest of Penance's discography? I only know The Road Less Traveled and The Road Revisitted.
Dave_the_Boss wrote:I'd say the original The Road Less Travelled is better, although The Road Revisited is definitely easier to find.
How's the rest of Penance's discography? I only know The Road Less Traveled and The Road Revisitted.
I don't have the original. But I mentioned Revisited because of the availability.
The other Penance albums are all great too. Parallel Corners is one of my all time favourite albums. One of the heaviest and most powerful doom metal albums ever. Proving Ground is pretty similar in style to PC, but with a new vocalist. Alpha & Omega is has a more rock 'n' roll approuch to doom metal. The last album SpiritualNatural is my second favourite Penance album. A little more up-tempo and it has some folkish influences, it even features bagpipes and a mandolin without sacrificing any integrity and power.
I'm not much of a doom fan, but there are some albums I really like. Namely Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead and While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn.
Thanks for the heap of recommendations guys, i'll try to get a few of them this week.
btw, you guys have any info on Sleepwalker (UK) and Ambush (Swe)? (Not sure if they're doom)
Thanks
I can't believe I forget to mention Paul Chain! His earlier stuff is amazing, mainly Detaching From Satan.
If you also like Death Metal then check out Autopsy's "Mental Funeral", the best Doom/Death album ever, and probably one of the best DM albums in history. Is high on my top ten.
And about Church Of Mysery I must admit I haven't heard the Japanese one, but I've heard a Doom/Death American band featuring Stevo from Impetigo that is very cool. I have a demo on mp3 and I can upload it if anybody is interested.
It doesn't get any better than the Lamp of Thoth or the Gates of Slumber. Both have new albums (though the Lamp album hasn't been released yet) which are of extremely high quality.
If you're into the more metallic, Forsaken's albums are great, though the band are even better live. If you think more "stoner" vibes (a contentious term for some) are good, Electric Wizard are where it's at. If you like more traditional Sabbath-y sound, maybe Count Raven might appeal to you. If a more oblique sound and you don't mind stuff that's hard to penetrate at times, Reverend Bizarre may also be for you.
Earlier mentions like Blood Farmers, Penance and Orodruin are of course great as well. Personally, I hate stuff like My Dying Bride and Anathema and I have no love for death-doom in general, though Dream Death still get through to me.
I know I ain't doing much,
doing nothing means a lot to me.
But have you tried their early stuff, Knuthulhu? Take 'Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium" by My Dying Bride. It doesn't get more occult-malignant than that. A shroud of impenetrable darkness and malevolence, the inward violence of fantasy. How can someone not like this song?
Saint Vitus - S/T
Solstice - New Dark Age
Mercy - Witchburner
Count Raven - Storm Warning
The Gates of Slumber - Suffer no Guilt
Reverend BIzarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Helm wrote:But have you tried their early stuff, Knuthulhu? Take 'Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium" by My Dying Bride. It doesn't get more occult-malignant than that. A shroud of impenetrable darkness and malevolence, the inward violence of fantasy. How can someone not like this song?
It's real easy. I just don't like MDB, even their early stuff. In fact I can just about stomach their first efforts (a few friends of mine are fans) - it's their later albums that make me gasp for a breath of fresh air. Sorry.
I know I ain't doing much,
doing nothing means a lot to me.
Autopsy's "Mental Funeral" has nothing to do with the genre called Death/Doom though. It just sounds like traditional Doom with DM vocals or something like that. Not ultra-slow parts nor blast-beats, just some sort of mid-tempo with ocational galloping bits. The drum sound of that record is just amazing, sounds something like acid drums with human skins patches pounded with bones.
pzman wrote:Thanks for the heap of recommendations guys, i'll try to get a few of them this week.
btw, you guys have any info on Sleepwalker (UK) and Ambush (Swe)? (Not sure if they're doom)
Thanks
There's some info on AMBUSH on the main site: http://www.thecorroseum.com/features/70 ... ndex.htm#A (scroll down)
A simply awesome EP, but not exactly pure doom. More in the vein of WIDOW/RITUAL (uk), ASHBURY, PAGAN ALTAR etc..
PAGAN ALTAR and BLACK HOLE are the 2 most important ones for you to check out if you haven't already
Cochino wrote:Autopsy's "Mental Funeral" has nothing to do with the genre called Death/Doom though. It just sounds like traditional Doom with DM vocals or something like that. Not ultra-slow parts nor blast-beats, just some sort of mid-tempo with ocational galloping bits. The drum sound of that record is just amazing, sounds something like acid drums with human skins patches pounded with bones.
Autopsy are death metal with a sludgy sound. They are not doom metal
