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a brief scan shows no evidence of a thread specifically for Doom/Death so I thought I'd start one so feel free to discuss your fave Doom/Death bands, best D/D albums, new bands in the style etc actually I'll start by discussing a new Doom/Death band some of you may by now be aware of, Nevertanezra, their first album NTNR is so far the highlight of this year for me (think I'm right in saying it actually went on sale last year? but I only bought it this year) soul crushingly heavy whilst maintaining that doomy feel, I've been raving a lot about this album and I'm sure by now NTNR and BlutAusNerd are sick to death of my constant praise of Nevertanezra but I don't care this is certainly a band any Doom/Death fan should have in their collection

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Re: Doom/Death Since no one bothers to check out the 'Suggested Bands' thread, here's a good place to start: 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: Doom/Death you forgot to mention your own band? well guess I kinda did that for you, speaking of which heard the radio interview you guys did a little while back today (thanks to BlutAusNerd for putting the link up) you guys should start you're own webshow it'd be just about the funniest thing ever although you'd have to actually get the drummer to talk once in a while which based on the interview is rather difficult

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Re: Doom/Death Mitch (our new bass player) talked even less. Dave is actually a pretty talkative guy, he just clams up in certain situations, whereas Mitch is almost always quiet. I'm surprised you sat through listening to that, I remember finding out that the interview would be 2 hours long about an hour into it, and I thought to myself, "Who the hell would listen to us talk for 2 hours?" It sounds like a few people were entertained though, so maybe we'll have to dust of Dave's cobwebs and do it again with his radio experience.

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There is nothing 'doom' metal about any of those Tiamat albums' date=' and the lack of Candlemass mentions is disturbing.[/quote'] I agree about the Tiamat albums, but just the ones mentions, as The Astral Sleep and Clouds are both fairly doomy. NTNR is right though, this is a doom/death recommendation thread, Candlemass hardly fits that.
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Regardless, I don't feel that Tiamat became inclined towards a doomy sound until The Astral Sleep. Sumerian Cry was when they were still in their black/death metal phase, as they had begun when they were still called Treblinka. I have only heard a couple of Wildhoney tracks, but it sounds more gothic to me, though still heavier than A Deeper Kind of Slumber.
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Re: Doom/Death Second List: Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony Ataraxie - Project X* Catacombs - In the Depths of R'lyeh Daylight Dies - No Reply Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion Earthcorpse - Born Bleeding Loss - Despond Mar de Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express* Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart* Necare - Appassionata* Obituary - The End Complete Officium Triste - Ne Vivam Officium Triste - Giving Yourself Away Poema Arcanvs - Arcane XIII Process of Guilt - Renounce* Rapture - Futile Rapture - Songs for the Withering Salem - Kaddish Swallow the Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Walk Through Fire - Furthest from Heaven * = mind blowing

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