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How about Black Sabbath? I know many consider them rather heavy metal' date=' but they're often credited with creating heavy metal as well as doom metal.[/quote'] Sabbath is heavy/doom metal combo. I typically suggest checking out Dehumanizer. And can't believe I forgot My Dying Bride. That's a good one.
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Re: Suggested bands? Warning are an amazing doom band the vocals are so epic sFHL76lIo7k And Soltice are a breath of fresh air, again some great vocals OG5fdhhDFLQ and lets not forget the mighty Candlemass. Not alot of people know this but the infamous "DEAD" from MAYHEM that committed suicide early on in Mayhem is in this Video!! Im sure to the Big Mayhem Fans I dont have to point him out ;) -3uvf0cn0jo

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Skepticism are an amazing band without a doubt, and I've heard a bit of Solstice and was pleased as well. I'll add simply Candlemass, Elysian Blaze (atmospheric black metal with funeral doom influence), Ahab, Wormphlegm, Decaying Citadel, and of course The Gates of Slumber.
Totally forgot about Gates of Slumber , good call!
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Re: Suggested bands? My definition of Doom appears to be somewhat at odds to most peoples. As far as I'm concerned, Doom needs to be slow, heavy and crushing. So basically, Doom/Death and Funeral Doom. Among the best are Thergothon, Evoken, Wormphlegm, Ataraxie, Worship, Tyranny, Catacombs, Esoteric, Morgion, Ordog, Shape Of Despair, Indesinence, Disembowelment (although that is more doomy Death Metal). Anathema's early stuff, up to and including "The Silent Enigma" is Doom, but all their stuff is fantastic. My Dying Bride have a big slice of goth in their Doom, so if you don't mind that, "Turn Loose The Swans" is the best place to start. Also check out the Loss EP, Celestial Season's first 2 full lengths, Cemetary Of Scream's debut, perhaps "Dawning" by Mindrot, "O Solitude" by Pantheist, as well as Woods Of Belial,Wraith Of The Ropes, Ahab, Winter, Asunder, Desire, Doom:vs, Ghast, Hierophant, Mar De Grises, Paramaecium, Skepticism. That should be a good start. The common definition of Doom appears to be traditional heavy metal to me. I can't see what makes St Vitus, Candlemass or Pentagram Doom. I also don't see what Stoner has to do with Doom either.

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Re: Suggested bands? Here is a great list of bands/albums for a beginner to Doom/Death Metal: Anathema - The Crestfallen EP Anathema - Serenades Anathema - Pentecost III Anathema - The Silent Enigma Ashes You Leave - The Passage Back To Life Asphyx - The Rack Asphyx - Crush the Cenotaph Autopsy - Mental Funeral* Avernus - Sadness Avernus - Where Sleeping Shadows Lie Cathedral - In Memoriam Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium Cathedral - The VIIth Coming Cathedral - Endtyme Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights Celestial Season - Forever Scarlet Passion Celestial Season - Solar Lovers diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell Evoken - Shades of Night Descending Evoken - Embrace the Emptiness Evoken - Quietus Eyes of Ligeia - The Night's Plutonian Shore Forlorn - Autumn Promos The Gathering - Always Katatonia - Dance of December Souls Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Lacrimas Profundere - ...And the Wings Embraced Us Lacrimas Profundere - ...La Naissance d'un Rêve Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum Lacrimas Profundere - Burning: A Wish Morgion - Among Majestic Ruin Morgion - Solinari Morgion - Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth Mourning Beloveth - Dust Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen Sulcus My Dying Bride - Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers My Dying Bride - The Thrash of Naked Limbs My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans My Dying Bride - I Am the Bloody Earth My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire Necare - Ruin Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth Novembers Doom - For Every Leaf That Falls Novembers Doom - of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers Novembers Doom - The Knowing October Tide - Rain Without End October Tide - Grey Dawn Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise Paradise Lost - Gothic Paradise Lost - Shades of God Paradise Lost - Icon Paradise Lost - Draconian Times Paramecium - Exhumed of the Earth Pyogenesis - Ignis Creatio Pyogenesis - Waves of Erotasia Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You Saturnus - For the Loveless Lonely Nights Saturnus - Martyre Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came Swallow the Sun - Ghosts of Loss Swallow the Sun - Hope Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt Tiamat - Sumerian Cry Tiamat - Wildhoney Tristania - Widow's Weeds Winter - Into Darkness Winter - Eternal Frost Most of these are available just about anywhere and are prime examples of said style.

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Re: Suggested bands? Silent Stream of Godless Elegy is a highly original Doom/Folk Metal band from Croatia that everyone should check out. They use both make and female vocals and sing primarily in their own tongue. Very good stuff for those into avantgarde Doom Metal.

this my favorite song from SSoGE and its possibly one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
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Re: Suggested bands? I love Silent stream of godless elegy, their blend of Eastern folk and doom metal is quite unique. By the same token, I will recommend Ashes you Leave, The 3rd and the mortal, Virgin Black, The Wizard, and Jex Thoth for more excellent female-fronted doom metal bands. The latter two being more quintessential Black Sabbath influenced stuff, and the first three being more symphonic in ways with the 3rd and the mortal veering more towards experimental doom

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I love Silent stream of godless elegy' date=' their blend of Eastern folk and doom metal is quite unique. By the same token, I will recommend Ashes you Leave, The 3rd and the mortal, Virgin Black, The Wizard, and Jex Thoth for more excellent female-fronted doom metal bands. The latter two being more quintessential Black Sabbath influenced stuff, and the first three being more symphonic in ways with the 3rd and the mortal veering more towards experimental doom[/quote'] The first Ashes You Leave album is great Doom/Death. Everything after was decidedly more Gothic but good all the same. I can't wait to hear their next release. The first two 3rd and the Mortal albums are Metal, after that they went artrock. Virgin Black is alright but overrated and kind of boring. I've got their last album (having given one of their others to my wife while we were still dating). I haven't heard the Wizard so I can't comment on them. Jex Thoth isn't Doom or Metal but rather psychedelic, Stoner, retro 60's. They're not bad if you're into the flower power movement of the misguided past. :D
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Re: Suggested bands? I disagree about Jex Thoth the bulk of the criticism being centered around the vocals, with the riffs of course being "stoner" influenced, however as they bare semblance to Black Sabbath one must keep in mind the drug influences playing about in Sabbath as well. I consider them Doom and its not terribly hard to see Stoner and psychedelic influence bleed into doom metal, both genres are very close.

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I disagree about Jex Thoth the bulk of the criticism being centered around the vocals' date=' with the riffs of course being "stoner" influenced, however as they bare semblance to Black Sabbath one must keep in mind the drug influences playing about in Sabbath as well. I consider them Doom and its not terribly hard to see Stoner and psychedelic influence bleed into doom metal, both genres are very close.[/quote'] They don't have enough Doom in them to fall into that category. Granted I haven't heard all their material, but from what I've heard I just hear stoner. The vocals aren't bad IMO, not amazing either.
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