History Main / DoomMetal

* Music/AdmiralAngry (mixed with [[{{Metalcore}} beatdown]])

* Music/AdmiralAngry

* [[Music/SunnO Sunn O)))]] (TropeCodifier)

* Music/{{Khanate}}

+ PsychedelicRock, BluesRock, SouthernRock, PostRock, AlternativeMetal, CountryMusic

A fusion of doom metal and drone music, also taking influence from ambient and minimalist music. Typically, the electric guitar is performed with a large amount of reverb or audio feedback, while vocals, if present, are usually growled or screamed; the more noise-influenced acts frequently include tape loops or harsh noise samples as well. Songs often lack beat or rhythm in the traditional sense and are typically very long. The genre was started by the band Earth, though the most well-known drone doom band is Sunn O))), who modeled themselves after Earth (their name is even a reference to Earth, as well as to the Sunn amplifier brand). This genre could be described as doom taken UpToEleven; it's minimalistic and brutal, and ''extremely creepy''.[[note]]Its polar opposite would be DreamPop, which is musical SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel.[[/note]]

Evolving from death/doom (particularly due to the death/doom band Disembowelment), funeral doom can be described as "death/doom UpToEleven". Taking some cues from dark ambient, it is played at a very slow tempo (even for doom), and places an emphasis on evoking a sense of emptiness and despair. Typically, electric guitars are heavily distorted and keyboards or synthesizers are used to create a "dreamlike" atmosphere. Vocals consist of mournful chants or growls and are often in the background. Needless to say, it's among the scariest and most depressing music ever created.

* UpToEleven: Sludge Metal is often seen as being {{Grunge}}'s true successor (as opposed to PostGrunge) due to taking the original nihilistic, doomy punk-metal stylings of grunge and running with it all the way until it reaches an utterly hateful, misanthropic, and ''ultra''-heavy sound.

* APaleHorseNamedDeath

* Music/{{Loathe}} (mixed with metalcore, ProgressiveMetal and NuMetal; ''The Cold Sun'' includes flirtations with {{deathcore}} as well)

** ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' (1970)

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Subverted: it is ''often'' made on drugs.

Although doom is not well-known in the mainstream, it's had quite a history. Despite the fact that doom and doom related metal has led to the rise of such genres as HeavyMetal, {{Grunge}} to an extent, SludgeMetal, GothicMetal, Stoner Rock, and others, doom metal itself has (for the most part) never truly broken into the mainstream and it remains overshadowed by genres such as {{Metalcore}}, AlternativeMetal, and DeathMetal. Many claim that the reason doom has been overlooked--save a few acts such as Music/AliceInChains and several of the more recent occult rock bands--is because of its speed, or lack thereof (most people attribute heavy metal with blinding speed, something doom metal avoids). In fact, many songs glorifying heavy metal, especially those from the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal-era, reinforce this notion that heavy metal can only be fast. Ironically, a lot of early and definitive doom albums were not very slow paced at all. Recently, doom metal has been showing itself to be an influence on newer eras of rock, particularly on the traditional metal revival scene and the retro-doom or "occult rock" movement. Following the success of Music/{{Ghost}}, Music/TheSword and Music/BlackSabbath, doom finally began receiving more than just traces of mainstream attention, leading some to speculate that the genre may be becoming a new trend in metal.

* Music/{{Ghost}} (sometimes disputed as being doom/stoner, instead being seen as straight rock)

+ HeavyMetal, Acid Rock, BluesRock

+ Dark Ambient, GothRock, {{Grindcore}}

* Avatarium (also psychedelic and progressive rock, moreso circa ''Hurricanes and Halos'')

* Music/Epitaph}}

* Abstrakt Algebra (bit of a GenreBusting example that mixes this with progressive metal and power metal)
* Atlantean Kodex (mixed with traditional HeavyMetal)

* Bedemon (DarkerAndEdgier side project of Pentagram's 70s incarnation)
* Below

* ''Blacksoul Seraphim'' (Overlaps with post-metal and BlackMetal on newer material)

* Capilla Ardiente

* Cauchemar

* Crypt Sermon

* The Doomsday Kingdom (another Leif Edling project - they mostly sound like later-era Candlemass with a rougher vocal approach)

* Epitaph

* Khemmis

* Lucifer (some stoner elements)

* A Pale Horse Named Death

* Procession
* Professor Emeritus

* Sorcerer

* Warning

* With the Dead (supergroup featuring [[Music/{{Cathedral}} Lee Dorrian]], [[Music/ElectricWizard Tim Bagshaw, and Mark Greening]]; they largely sound like a mix of the two main parent acts)

* Agoraphobic Nosebleed (''Arc'' EP only)

* Bottom Feeder

* Couch Slut

* Fister
* Fistula
* Full of Hell (along with grindcore, powerviolence, and noise)

* Meth Drinker

* Open Tomb

* ThyGriefEternal

* Whores. (along with noise rock)

* Gozu

* Livid

* Mos Generator

* Scissorfight

* Slo Burn

* Barishi (also mathcore on their earlier material; they abandoned this for a more prog-oriented sound on ''Old Smoke'')

* Beyond Terror Beyond Grace (''Nadir'', mixed with blackened death metal)

* Conjurer (also black metal and metalcore)
* Countless Skies (also MelodicDeathMetal)

* Departe (also blackened death metal)

* Downfall of Gaia (mixed with crust punk)
* Eight Bells (also post-black)

* Wrvth (''No Rising Sun'', also metalcore)

* Zhrine (also blackened death metal)

* Bereft (with a noticeably strong death metal undercurrent)

* Eye of Solitude (heavy overlap with death/doom)

* Batillus

* The Lion's Daughter (mixed with sludge)

* Upheaval
* Usnea
* Vattnet Viskar (Also Sludge Metal)
* Wolvhammer (Also black 'n roll as of late)

* Music/BlackFlag (Main/UrExample Many important bands honor the second side of ''My War'' as the inception of the whole genre.)

* Music/BlackFlag (Many important bands honor the second side of ''My War'' as the inception of the whole genre.)

* Music/ThyGriefEternal (Very little known UrExample; also led to Electric Wizard)

* Music/SubRosaUtahBand (overlaps with sludge/stoner metal)

* Music/{{Subrosa}} (overlaps with sludge/stoner metal)

* Music/{{KENMode}}

* UpToEleven: Sludge Metal is oft seen as being {{Grunge}}'s true successor (as opposed to PostGrunge) due to taking the original nihilistic, doomy punk-metal stylings of grunge and running with it all the way until it reach an utterly hateful, misanthropic, and ''ultra'' heavy sound.

* Music/{{Trouble}} (later material has some stoner elements)

* Full of Hell (along with metalcore, powerviolence, and noise)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 6 for stoner metal, 7-8 normally, 8-9 for sludge, 10-[[UpToEleven 11]] for death/doom, funeral doom, and drone doom, along with the absolute heaviest sludge acts. A few of the sludgier stoner metal bands, chiefly Electric Wizard, also manage to reach 10.