Suggested bands?

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands? www.doommantia.com is a great place for more info on Doom Metal in general. Their forum is pretty cool too.

[Zyggiefromjiu]

Re: Suggested bands? i'm very slowly getting in to doom metal your suggestions are helping a lot

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

i'm very slowly getting in to doom metal your suggestions are helping a lot

Good. Good! I go out of my way to avoid the Traditional Doom Metal bands because most sound like 70's and/or Black Sabbath ripoffs. If you want anymore suggestions hit me up.

[Iceni]

Re: Suggested bands? Well, NTNR likes Mar De Grises...if you've go the patience and attention span, they're quite good. Rapture is also nice although they're more heavily gothic. But Slumber was a really great band which played a synthesis of gothic metal, melodeath and doom. Definitely give them a try of you want to hear some nice moody music.

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

Well, NTNR likes Mar De Grises...if you've go the patience and attention span, they're quite good. Rapture is also nice although they're more heavily gothic. But Slumber was a really great band which played a synthesis of gothic metal, melodeath and doom. Definitely give them a try of you want to hear some nice moody music.

Rapture isn't Gothic. They're just melodic Doom/Death. With 3 guitars! LOL

[satan 59]

Re: Suggested bands? Just found these guys - The Wounded Kings

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands? Celestial Season was a Doom/Death Metal band on their first album and a Stoner/Doom/Death Metal band on their following release. They went full-blown stoner after the second album:

[Iceni]

Re: Suggested bands? Novembers Doom has already been suggested. I second the motion. Their album 'The Pale Haunt Departure' is AWWWWESOME...

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands? Novembers Doom's albums can be rated as follows: Amid Its Hallowed Mirth - 7/10 Of Sculptured Ivy And Stone Flowers - 7.5/10 The Knowing - 10/10 To Welcome The Fade - 9/10 (This is the album that got me into the band) The Pale Haunt Departure - 6.5/10 (I like it more than I did, but it was still a let down compared to their earlier work.) The Novella Reservoir - 3/10 (I really stopped liking them around this point) Into Night's Requiem Infernal - 0/10 (This album I'm going to sell eventually, it's just awful.) Aphotic - 0/10 (I've only heard a few tracks off this and they just sucked!)

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands? My singers former band AVERNUS had some great tunes and this is one of them:

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Suggested bands? Any reason why nobody has brought up Trouble yet? Psalm 9 and The Skull are classic doom metal, some of the best in the genre. Not sure why there has to be so much division between trad doom and extreme doom, there's plenty of great stuff on both sides without having to claim that it's a "Sabbath ripoff" or "just slow death metal". I love albums all over the doom spectrum, though admittedly I'm not the biggest drone fan. My favorite bands from over the doom spectrum are Katatonia (when they were actually a doom band), Thergothon, Skepticism, Unholy, Anathema, Trouble, Cathedral, Black Sabbath (doom for most of the Ozzy era), Candlemass, Eyehategod, Burning Witch, Electric Wizard, Esoteric, Evoken, dISEMBOWELMENT, Worship, etc...

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

Any reason why nobody has brought up Trouble yet? Psalm 9 and The Skull are classic doom metal, some of the best in the genre. Not sure why there has to be so much division between trad doom and extreme doom, there's plenty of great stuff on both sides without having to claim that it's a "Sabbath ripoff" or "just slow death metal". I love albums all over the doom spectrum, though admittedly I'm not the biggest drone fan. My favorite bands from over the doom spectrum are Katatonia (when they were actually a doom band), Thergothon, Skepticism, Unholy, Anathema, Trouble, Cathedral, Black Sabbath (doom for most of the Ozzy era), Candlemass, Eyehategod, Burning Witch, Electric Wizard, Esoteric, Evoken, dISEMBOWELMENT, Worship, etc...

I thought Trouble had been mentioned already, but yes they were a great band. Not pure Doom but still considered Doom all the same. The division between Traditional and Death/Funeral/Drone/etc... is from several trad bands and various fans refusing to except anything that doesn't sound like Black Sabbath as Doom. Instead of embracing the so-called "extreme" styles they pick BM styled fights in an attempt to fragment an already small scene.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Re: Suggested bands? kinda came here by mistake and don't know much about doom metal but um pretty sure Sabbath were more traditional heavy metal, in fact they were kinda the first truly metal band and pretty much invented it, but thats probably just the opinion of someone who doesn't know what doom metal is, so far as divisions within genres I think what you've said probably applies to all subgenres in metal, its like if you play thrash but tune your guitar a certain way suddenly its a subgenre of thrash (sorry for the thrash reference but I know a hell of a lot more about that then this genre)

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

kinda came here by mistake and don't know much about doom metal but um pretty sure Sabbath were more traditional heavy metal' date=' in fact they were kinda the first truly metal band and pretty much invented it, but thats probably just the opinion of someone who doesn't know what doom metal is, so far as divisions within genres I think what you've said probably applies to all subgenres in metal, its like if you play thrash but tune your guitar a certain way suddenly its a subgenre of thrash (sorry for the thrash reference but I know a hell of a lot more about that then this genre)[/quote'] Not so much. Most division comes from the BM scene. All the bullshit of who's Truer or more kvlt etc... who cares? If it sounds good and you can bang your head to it then move on. There are individuals in certain scenes that rag on others i.e. Death hating Power, Prog & BM hating everything that isn't their style, etc... in my experience, most people are cool regardless of what you listen too, as long as you're Metal.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Re: Suggested bands? totally agree man, I'm willing to give any type of metal a chance

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

totally agree man' date=' I'm willing to give any type of metal a chance[/quote'] More people need that kind of attitude.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Suggested bands? NTNR's reason for the division seems to solely implicate trad fans as the instigators, but as I said in my post, many extreme doom fans will talk down on trad doom as being "just classic/hippie rock" or "nothing more than Sabbath worship". It comes from both sides and is absurd, if slow and heavy shalt be the whole of the law, who gives a shit about the specifics?

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

NTNR's reason for the division seems to solely implicate trad fans as the instigators' date=' but as I said in my post, many extreme doom fans will talk down on trad doom as being "just classic/hippie rock" or "nothing more than Sabbath worship". It comes from both sides and is absurd, if slow and heavy shalt be the whole of the law, who gives a shit about the specifics?[/quote'] In my experience it IS the trad fans crying the hardest.

[Iceni]

Re: Suggested bands?

Novembers Doom's albums can be rated as follows: The Knowing - 10/10 To Welcome The Fade - 9/10 (This is the album that got me into the band) The Pale Haunt Departure - 6.5/10 (I like it more than I did, but it was still a let down compared to their earlier work.)

Funny, 'The Pale Haunt Departure' is the only album I've heard so far and I love it. *goes to check out the highest-rated albums*

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

Funny, 'The Pale Haunt Departure' is the only album I've heard so far and I love it. *goes to check out the highest-rated albums*

It's grown on me over the years but it wasn't what I was expecting. I haven't listened to it in a few years in fact.

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands? As much as I rag on it, there are a few Traditional Doom Metal bands that should be acknowledged: The 3rd and the Mortal - Sorrow The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Black Sabbath - Paranoid Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath - Sabotage Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Candlemass - Nightfall Candlemass - Ancient Dreams Candlemass - Candlemass Candlemass - King of the Gray Islands Candlemass - Death Magic Doom Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice Cathedral - The Etheral Mirror Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre Cathedral - Endtyme Cathedral - The VIIth Coming Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights Concept of God - Visions Confessor - Condemned Confessor - Confessor Confessor - Unraveled Forsaken - Iconoclast Forsaken - Anima Mundi Funeral - In Fields Of Pestilent Grief Funeral - From These Wounds Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories Place of Skulls - With Vision Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon Solitude Aeturnus - Through the Darkest Hour Solitude Aeturnus - Adagio Solitude Aeturnus - Alone The Gathering - Mandylion The Gathering - Nighttime Birds The Hidden Hand - Mother Teacher Destroyer The Obsessed - The Obsessed The Obsessed - Lunar Womb The Obsessed - The Church Within The Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton Trouble - Psalm 9 Trouble - The Skull Trouble - Run to the Light Trouble - Trouble Type-O-Negative - Slow, Deep & Hard Type-O-Negative - Origin of the Feces Type-O-Negative - Bloody Kisses Type-O-Negative - October Rust Type-O-Negative - World Coming Down Type-O-Negative - Dead Again Witchfinder General - Death Penalty Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell There are plenty of others I just can't think of off the top of my head.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Suggested bands? Nothing traditional about The 3rd and the Mortal, The Gathering, or Funeral...

[Iceni]

Re: Suggested bands?

It's grown on me over the years but it wasn't what I was expecting. I haven't listened to it in a few years in fact.

The Pale Haunt Departure feels like a monolithic tank relentlessly crushing everything underneath its colossal treads. To be honest, it is exactly what I was hoping doom metal would be like when I first started researching it.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Suggested bands? You have to check out their earlier work then. Novembers Doom are one of the few bands NTNR and I can mostly agree on, with The Knowing being required listening. I would put Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers, For Every Leaf That Falls, and Amid Its Hallowed Mirth before To Welcome the Fade, but honestly that might be the best place to go to next, as it sort of bridges the gap between the old and new sounds.

[NTNR]

Re: Suggested bands?

Nothing traditional about The 3rd and the Mortal' date=' The Gathering, or Funeral...[/quote'] What would you call them? They sure as hell aren't "gothic" by any stretch of the imagination. They are prime examples of non-Sabbath Doom Metal, the best kind.