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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. :P
You would definitely like their older material. Their first album was insanely heavy (I think the rerelease comes with pre-ND material which is possibly heavier). The albums afterwards were more melodic but no one sounds like they did. They got boring really quickly after TPHD.
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Re: Suggested bands? Funeral is most definitely goth/doom since their funeral roots. The others are in a sort of atmospheric post-doom/death gray area, with many influences (including goth) that makes classifying them a bit more difficult. If they are indeed doom (not a ruling a care to worry about at present), it's definitely not traditional.

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Re: Suggested bands? I don't hear the Goth you speak of. I do hear the obnoxiously layered vocals (From these Wounds) but it's very slow and heavy. If they sounded like Sentenced or Entwine, then I'd have no argument. There is just nothing Gothic about the albums I listed. After those I don't know. Of their last two albums I've only heard parts of the second to last and it was awful.

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Re: Suggested bands? Gothic Doom bands for the beginner: Ashes You Leave - The Inheritance of Sin and Shame Celtic Frost - Monotheist Cemetery of Scream - Prelude to a Sentimental Journey Cemetery of Scream - The Event Horizon Cemetery of Scream - Frozen Images Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn Eyes of Fire - Ashes to Embers Forest Stream - The Crown of Winter Novembre - Novembrine Waltz Novembre - Materia Octavia Sperati - Winter Enclosure The Eternal - Sleep of Reason Theatre of Tragedy - Aégis

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Re: Suggested bands? Since I see sludge as a form of doom metal, the following is some shameless self-promotion: Starve is a sludge band from the Netherlands, inspired by the likes of Eyehategod, Crowbar, Iron Monkey. The music of Starve is a soundtrack to all the filth, despair, injustice, fear and greed we see in the world around us. The band is inspired by music ranging from the harsh bleakness of sludge metal to the gritty defiance of old blues songs, sometimes mixing these with the unhurried attitudes of legendary southern rock bands. We recently recorded a video, that can be watched here: hvyWJN3MZq8 http://ilovestarve.blogspot.com http://starve.bandcamp.com

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Re: Suggested bands? I was thinking about starting a suggestion list for Drone bands but in truth I don't know that many. I like Drone but I really have to be in the mood for it. Here's the beginnings of a list: Jesu - Jesu Jesu - Silver Jesu - Conqueror Moss - Sub Templum Nadja - Corrasion Nadja - Truth Becomes Death Nadja - Touched Nadja - Radiance of Shadows Sunn O))) - Black One Sunn O))) - Altar This is a work in progress!

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Re: Suggested bands? I've been really getting into Rwake and I'm not sure if they've already been mentioned but Ramesses are great! In my opinion "The Tomb" is their best album. Wonderful stuff! :) Also, I'd recommend Pallbearer too. (They only have one demo out at the moment but it's very good)

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I've been really getting into Rwake and I'm not sure if they've already been mentioned but Ramesses are great! In my opinion "The Tomb" is their best album. Wonderful stuff! :) Also, I'd recommend Pallbearer too. (They only have one demo out at the moment but it's very good)
I heard a Pallbearer track on a Crestfallen podcast a while back and it was pretty cool. I've been meaning to check out Ramesses for a while, and if they're anything like Electric Wizard I'll probably dig them. I hear a great deal about Rwake, but many Relapse bands that get that much hype end up sucking pretty hard, so I've avoided them. The Crestfallen Radio Show is a great place to hear tons of great doom, new and old. Check it out, Kev plays some of the best stuff out there, and even sneaks in one of our tracks once in a while. ;)http://crestfallenradio.podomatic.com/
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I heard a Pallbearer track on a Crestfallen podcast a while back and it was pretty cool. I've been meaning to check out Ramesses for a while, and if they're anything like Electric Wizard I'll probably dig them. I hear a great deal about Rwake, but many Relapse bands that get that much hype end up sucking pretty hard, so I've avoided them. The Crestfallen Radio Show is a great place to hear tons of great doom, new and old. Check it out, Kev plays some of the best stuff out there, and even sneaks in one of our tracks once in a while. ;)http://crestfallenradio.podomatic.com/
He's played two actually. :D But it is a great place to hear new bands. You'd probably like Ramesses because I didn't, lol. I didn't care for Pallbearer however. I'm pretty sure I don't like Rwake but I'm going to listen to them again just to be sure.
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He's played two actually. :D But it is a great place to hear new bands. You'd probably like Ramesses because I didn't, lol. I didn't care for Pallbearer however. I'm pretty sure I don't like Rwake but I'm going to listen to them again just to be sure.
Be sure to let me know, if you don't dig them I know I will. :D
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