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The Reclusiam demo is among my favourite examples of funeral doom. How is Ryan Henry anyway? Last I heard from Mike he had some serious health problems
He always has, I believe that one of the songs on the Reclusiam demo was about an eye issue that he had. I haven't heard from him in a while, he hasn't returned my last few emails. I'm told that the best way to reach him is through Facebook, but I don't use Facebook.
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only 4? It should be prohibited to not mention Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Candlemass, Pentagram, Witchfinder General and many more. But if I must write not so typical list, it would be: -Reverend Bizarre -Electric Wizard -Yob -Pallbearer Doom still evolves, like any other subgenre.

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only 4? It should be prohibited to not mention Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Candlemass, Pentagram, Witchfinder General and many more.
Prohibited? Nah. I somewhat like Sabbath and don't get into any of those other bands. I'm not into the traditional sound; if anything, I tend to dislike it. I enjoy a bit of sludge-influenced stuff - Burning Witch is probably my favorite doom band, and I think some Neurosis qualifies - but I get more mileage out of the melodic/DM side of things: My Dying Bride, old recordings by Anathema, Katatonia, October Tide, and Paradise Lost, and my friends' group Atten Ash, to name a few. I also enjoy the doom flavorings in old Bethlehem, the cavernous atmosphere of Disma, and the proto-doom aggression of mid 80s Swans, none of whom are really doom bands. As you say, it's always evolving. These "top 4" (or whatever number) threads are usually used for talking about what we're currently listening to the most.
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Do not take everything literally. :) There's as many opinions as people, everyone should show respect to above-mentioned bands, but music taste should be individual thing. I don't even want to try understand why the heck you prefer My Dying Bride rather than Pentagram. In fact, there's a huge gap between them despite the same name of genre. The roots are shared, but music evolved in completely different way. Neurosis is a third path of progress.

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Hi guys - just dropped in and stumbled across this Doom Thread. I am more into the death/doom style I guess.. Right now the 'most listended' to top 4 would be something like: Slumber - Distress in my opinion is a massive album...if only they had stayed around Rapture (Futile and Songs for the Withering) Saturnus (everything is gold by this band) Novembre Ask me next month and it might have changed.

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Hi guys - just dropped in and stumbled across this Doom Thread. I am more into the death/doom style I guess.. Right now the 'most listended' to top 4 would be something like: Slumber - Distress in my opinion is a massive album...if only they had stayed around Rapture (Futile and Songs for the Withering) Saturnus (everything is gold by this band) Novembre Ask me next month and it might have changed.
Good choices, though Novembre isn't all that doomy. I do quite like Materia and The Blue though.
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Doom/death is one of life’s pleasures.
Very much so. I'm always searching for more, especially in that magical time throughout the 90's when it seemed like bands playing the style could do no wrong. The US bands are almost criminally overlooked, so I've been doing my best to track down all of the US doom/death that I can find. Playing in a US doom/death band doesn't hurt that motivation either. [emoji39]

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