| 1 | ->''"They say my songs are much too slow..."'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Music/SaintVitus''', ''Born Too Late'' |
| 3 | |
| 4 | [floatboxright: |
| 5 | Primary Stylistic Influences (Doom and Stoner Metal): |
| 6 | + HeavyMetal, AcidRock, BluesRock |
| 7 | ] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [floatboxright: |
| 10 | Secondary Stylistic Influences (Doom and Stoner Metal): |
| 11 | + PsychedelicRock, HardRock, ProgressiveRock |
| 12 | ] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [floatboxright: |
| 15 | Primary Stylistic Influences (Sludge Metal): |
| 16 | + Doom Metal, HardcorePunk, NoiseRock, PostHardcore, {{Grunge}} |
| 17 | ] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [floatboxright: |
| 20 | Secondary Stylistic Influences (Sludge Metal): |
| 21 | + PsychedelicRock, BluesRock, SouthernRock (Especially NOLA groups), PostRock, AlternativeMetal, CountryMusic, GrooveMetal, Post-Metal |
| 22 | ] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [floatboxright: |
| 25 | Primary Stylistic Influences (Death/Doom and Funeral Doom): |
| 26 | + DeathMetal, Doom Metal |
| 27 | ] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [floatboxright: |
| 30 | Secondary Stylistic Influences (Death/Doom and Funeral Doom): |
| 31 | + DarkAmbient, GothRock, {{Grindcore}} |
| 32 | ] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | '''Doom metal''' is a subgenre of HeavyMetal that emerged in the [[TheSeventies late seventies]]/[[TheEighties early eighties]] (though, due to its close relationship with traditional heavy metal, its origins are sometimes pushed even further back into TheSixties). It's often slow, dark, depressing and pessimistic, and is characterized by a thicker guitar sound than other genres of metal. The music and lyrics are usually meant to evoke a sense of dread, although more epic and "rocking" themes are far from uncommon. |
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| 36 | A simpler description of doom metal: a genre consisting of metal bands that looked at Music/BlackSabbath, thought "Hey, that's pretty [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom doomy]], but we can do better!", and subsequently took the doomy metal of Sabbath to its logical extreme. Hence, doom metal. |
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| 38 | The genre technically started right at the beginning of metal, with the aforementioned Black Sabbath, who are near universally considered the first true metal band. Another classic metal band, Pentagram, was also a key part of doom metal, though the genre was not truly formed until a tiny bit later on, with several other influential bands including Music/SaintVitus, Cirith Ungol, Pagan Altar, Trouble, and Witchfinder General. It should be noted that several of the early traditional doom bands, as well as more recent bands following in their footsteps, often lack certain stereotypes associated with the genre. Some of the bands have faster paced songs, and a few were quite upbeat in tone, while still retaining the Sabbath influence. Possibly, the most influential of the doom metal bands was Music/{{Candlemass}}, who released their debut album ''[[CanisLatinicus Epicus Doomicus Metallicus]]'' in 1986. It was this album that brought doom metal to greater attention in metal circles, when it had been previously seen as more of a niche genre. Alongside the Black Sabbath track "Hand of Doom", It's also possibly where the name of the genre came from ("Doomicus Metallicus" = "Doom Metal"; "Hand of Doom" = "Doom Metal"). |
| 39 | During the eighties, doom metal was a woefully overlooked and deeply underground subgenre, metal being dominated commercially by HairMetal and in the less-underground-than-doom-metal underground by ThrashMetal. In fact, it's not at all impossible to find some fans who believe that doom metal is an entirely [[OlderThanTheyThink recent phenomenon.]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | At the beginning of the nineties, the band Music/{{Cathedral|Band}} released their debut album ''Forest of Equilibrium'', which fused doom metal with more aesthetics from extreme metal, making doom slower and heavier. Cathedral themselves later moved onto a more uptempo, groove-oriented style, but their early material resulted in doom metal gaining more recognition. By now, there were a couple of doom metal subgenres: "epic doom", which fused traditional doom with operatic vocals and (often) HeavyMithril; and "sludge metal", which fused doom with HardcorePunk and in some cases southern rock, and started off in [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]]. In the early-to-mid nineties, doom metal diversified, and quite a few new subgenres were created, including "stoner metal", "death/doom", "black doom", "funeral doom" and "drone doom". Around the time NuMetal was mainstream, the stoner metal band Music/ElectricWizard released Dopethrone, which is regarded as one of the seminal doom metal albums and one of the heaviest metal albums of all time, bringing to doom a new audience obsessed with heaviness in metal. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | Another form of doom, known as "post-metal" or "atmospheric sludge metal", combined sludge metal with PostRock. Certain post-metal bands, such as Music/{{Isis}}, Music/{{Neurosis}}, Music/CultOfLuna, and Pelican, have gained recognition in the metal scene, but this success has been met with backlash from [[FanDumb certain people]], who refer to it as "hipster metal" (and, for some reason, lump them in with Music/{{Mastodon}}, who are not a post-metal band despite taking influences from sludge metal). It is, however, debatable whether post-metal even qualifies as a doom metal subgenre (or even a metal subgenre at that), and most doom purists are likely to consider it as merely "heavy post-rock", claiming that these bands take very little influence from the doom style. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | There's also GothicMetal, a subgenre of metal that evolved from death/doom thanks to three British death/doom bands, Music/ParadiseLost, Music/MyDyingBride and Music/{{Anathema|Band}}, known as the "Peaceville Trio" due to all three bands being signed to Peaceville Records. Some gothic metal bands also count as doom, but overall, gothic metal is not a subgenre of doom, despite evolving from it. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | A new wave of retro-doom metal (sometimes known as "occult rock") started to gain popularity in 2011 and has remained popular since, encompassing such bands as Jex Thoth and Ghost, with a lot of these bands not intending to play any form of doom at all. This recent and increasingly popular wave of metal- drawing influence from 70s rock, sludge, stoner, and traditional metal- is now the closest thing to mainstream attention doom metal has yet to receive. Due to their wider appeal, some of these bands have been accused of being "hipster". |
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| 49 | 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/GhostBand 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. |
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| 51 | The most basic forms of doom metal can be no more complex than simply taking any average "fast" metal song and ''slowing it down ''considerably.'''' This has led to something of an [[MemeticMutation YouTube phenomenon involving slowing down songs from otherwise speed, thrash, death, or black metal bands up to 50 to 500%, tempo or speed wise, via digital alteration software]], thus giving said songs a strong doom metal feel ([[HilarityEnsues with a near unavoidable side effect of the vocalist sounding like a stoned demon.]]) However, purer forms of doom make use of the term ''doom'' and apply it to their lyrics and sound in order to create moods of hopelessness and depression. Musically, doom tends to not be very different from regular metal, though the riffing and vocal styles tend to be different. However, in subgenres, such as funeral doom keyboards, organs, and other instruments (such as gongs) can be used to thicken the overall atmosphere. It's also common to use death growls and choruses. In traditional doom and stoner doom alike, blues signatures and BluesRock and PsychedelicRock features are regularly applied, moreso for the latter. As a result, psychedelic blues rock bands from the 1960s and 1970s are often called out as being major influences of stoner doom. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | In musical style, a lot of traditional doom bands aspire to sound like Music/BlackSabbath, particularly the early Ozzy Osborne era- circa 1969-1973. This has been most accomplished by the aforementioned stoner doom bands mainly due to the psychedelic nature of Black Sabbath during that time. Riffs, especially box riffs and blues riffs, are also extremely prevalent throughout doom metal as another side-effect of being Black Sabbath inspired. |
| 54 | Despite being one of the many 'extreme metal' subgenres, doom metal is also one of the most diverse. While many doom bands and songs employ incredibly crushing guitars, apocalyptic attitudes, and demonic growled vocals, others might opt to sound like otherwise upbeat '70s rock with very gloomy lyrics. This is not including folk, industrial, avant-garde and electronic doom bands. |
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| 56 | ---- |
| 57 | List of doom bands, categorised by subgenre: |
| 58 | %%%Bear in mind that some bands cross over into different subgenres at the same time. This is not an attempt to pidgeonhole bands into different "cliques", which is what some have mistaken it for. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | '''Traditional Doom''' and '''Epic Doom'''\ |
| 61 | Technically they are different subgenres, however the distinction is frequently very hard to grasp, so they've been lumped in together (A basic guide: traditional doom = Saint Vitus, epic doom = Music/{{Candlemass}}). This style is rooted in '70s rock and metal, and it becomes obvious in their presentation and sound; they sound as if punk never happened. For epic doom bands, some '80s metal, specifically the operatic vocals and gated drums, is mixed in. Shred-style leadwork is also present with some epic doom acts. "Epic heavy metal" is an adjacent microgenre that is usually lumped in with traditional/epic doom, and while its classification is somewhat nebulous, if it's too uptempo to be straight doom, too doomy to be straight trad, and has a pronounced grandiosity (often with mournful overtones), it's probably epic heavy metal. Manilla Road and Solstice codified most of epic heavy metal's tropes, while Visigoth and Atlantean Kodex have raised its profile in recent years. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | '''Note''': Doom metal and stoner rock/metal are used interchangeably by the press, so don't be surprised if these bands are labeled 'stoner rock/metal' in some circles. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[index]] |
| 66 | * Music/AbstraktAlgebra (bit of a GenreBusting example that mixes this with progressive metal and power metal) |
| 67 | * Music/AtlanteanKodex (epic heavy metal) |
| 68 | * Music/{{Avatarium}} (also psychedelic and progressive rock, moreso circa ''Hurricanes and Halos'') |
| 69 | * Music/{{Bedemon}} (DarkerAndEdgier side project of Pentagram's 70s incarnation) |
| 70 | * Music/{{Below}} |
| 71 | * Music/BlackSabbath (UrExample along with Flower Travellin' Band) |
| 72 | ** 1970 - ''Music/{{Black Sabbath|Album}}'' |
| 73 | ** 1970 - ''Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}'' |
| 74 | ** 1971 - ''Music/MasterOfReality'' |
| 75 | ** 1975 - ''Music/{{Sabotage|BlackSabbathAlbum}}'' |
| 76 | ** 1980 - ''Music/{{Heaven and Hell|1980}}'' |
| 77 | ** 2009 - ''Music/TheDevilYouKnow'' |
| 78 | * Music/BlacksoulSeraphim (Overlaps with post-metal and BlackMetal on newer material) |
| 79 | * Music/BloodCeremony (also psychedelic rock) |
| 80 | * Briton Rites |
| 81 | * Music/{{Candlemass}} (TropeCodifier along with Saint Vitus) |
| 82 | * Music/CapillaArdiente |
| 83 | * Music/{{Cathedral|Band}} (has had run-ins with the stoner label from time to time) |
| 84 | * Music/{{Cauchemar}} |
| 85 | * Music/CirithUngol (potential UrExample for epic doom and epic heavy metal) |
| 86 | * Music/{{Confessor}} (Combined with ProgressiveMetal and ThrashMetal) |
| 87 | * Music/CountRaven |
| 88 | * Music/CryptSermon |
| 89 | * Music/{{Danzig}} |
| 90 | * Music/{{Danava}} (along with heavy psych) |
| 91 | * Music/TheDoomsdayKingdom (another Leif Edling project - they mostly sound like later-era Candlemass with a rougher vocal approach) |
| 92 | * Music/{{Doomnezeu}} |
| 93 | * Music/{{Doomsword}} |
| 94 | * Early Moods |
| 95 | * Music/{{Epitaph}} |
| 96 | * Eternal Champion (epic heavy metal) |
| 97 | * [[Music/FlowerTravellinBand Flower Travellin' Band]] (UrExample along with Black Sabbath) |
| 98 | * Music/TheGatesOfSlumber |
| 99 | * Music/TheGault (mixed with a bit of GothicMetal, GothRock, PostPunk, death rock, etc., but this is still their dominant style) |
| 100 | * Godthrymm |
| 101 | * Green & Wood |
| 102 | * Music/HammersOfMisfortune (largely ProgressiveMetal but has strong trad doom elements) |
| 103 | * Music/HoodedMenace (mixed with death metal) |
| 104 | * Music/{{Hour of 13}} |
| 105 | * Music/{{Icecross}} (proto-doom metal) |
| 106 | * Music/IronMan (and they started off as a Music/BlackSabbath tribute band, to boot!) |
| 107 | * Music/{{Isole}} |
| 108 | * Music/JexThoth (evokes a very retro 60s-ish sound leaning towards Psychedelic, with lots of Hammond organ) |
| 109 | * Music/{{Khemmis}} |
| 110 | * Music/{{Krux}} (a {{Supergroup}} comprised of members of Music/{{Candlemass}}, Music/{{Entombed}}, Music/{{Grave}} and Music/YngwieMalmsteen's backing group - basically Leif Edling's second go at Abstrakt Algebra) |
| 111 | * Music/TheLampOfThoth |
| 112 | * Music/LordVicar |
| 113 | * Music/{{Lucifer}} (some stoner elements) |
| 114 | * [[Music/LucifersFriend Lucifer's Friend]] (An UrExample of doom metal) |
| 115 | * Music/MaelMordha (fused doom with [[FolkMetal Celtic metal]]) |
| 116 | * Magic Circle (epic heavy metal) |
| 117 | * Music/ManillaRoad (overlaps with traditional, power, and occasionally thrash/speed metal) |
| 118 | * Music/MementoMori (Formed by [[Music/{{Candlemass}} Messiah Marcolin]] and [[Music/KingDiamond Mike Wead]] as a Hexenhaus offshoot, which explains the prominent PowerMetal and ProgressiveMetal elements) |
| 119 | * Music/{{Minotauri}} |
| 120 | * Mourn the Light (epic heavy metal) |
| 121 | * Music/MyDyingBride (Some of their work definitely fits into the genre.) |
| 122 | * Music/TheObsessed |
| 123 | * Music/{{Ogre}} |
| 124 | * Music/{{Orodruin}} |
| 125 | * Music/OzzyOsbourne |
| 126 | * Music/PaganAltar |
| 127 | * Music/{{Pallbearer}} |
| 128 | * Music/APaleHorseNamedDeath (also GothicMetal) |
| 129 | * Music/{{Penance}} |
| 130 | * Music/{{Pentagram}} (arguable TropeMaker) |
| 131 | * Music/{{Pilgrim}} |
| 132 | * Music/PlaceOfSkulls |
| 133 | * Music/{{Procession}} |
| 134 | * Music/ProfessorEmeritus (epic heavy metal) |
| 135 | * Music/{{Pylon}} |
| 136 | * Music/ReverendBizarre |
| 137 | * Music/SaintVitus (TropeCodifier along with Music/{{Candlemass}}; sometimes considered a SpiritualSuccessor to Bedemon) |
| 138 | * [[Music/SatansSatyrs Satan's Satyrs]] (mixed with heavy psych and garage rock) |
| 139 | * Music/{{Scald}} |
| 140 | * Music/{{Sirenia}} |
| 141 | * Music/SolitudeAeturnus (bordering on epic heavy metal at times) |
| 142 | * {{Music/Solstice}} (specifically, the band from the UK; there's another band called Solstice from the United States that plays DeathMetal, also epic heavy metal) |
| 143 | * Music/{{Sorcerer}} |
| 144 | * Music/SpiritusMortis |
| 145 | * Music/SubRosaUtah (overlaps with sludge/stoner metal) |
| 146 | * Music/{{Triptykon}} (Some overlap with GothicMetal) |
| 147 | * Music/{{Trouble|Band}} (later material has some stoner elements) |
| 148 | * Twisted Tower Dire (epic heavy metal) |
| 149 | * Music/TypeONegative (more overtly GothicMetal, but they have done work in this genre, particularly on their earlier albums, as well as on their more recent material) |
| 150 | ** 1993 - ''Music/BloodyKisses'' |
| 151 | ** 1999 - ''Music/WorldComingDown'' |
| 152 | ** 2007 - ''Music/{{Dead Again|2007}}'' |
| 153 | * Music/UncleAcidAndTheDeadbeats (mixed with heavy psych) |
| 154 | * Music/{{Unorthodox}} (also a Stoner band) |
| 155 | * Music/{{Visigoth}} (also PowerMetal and epic heavy metal) |
| 156 | * Music/{{Warning|Band}} |
| 157 | * Music/WhileHeavenWept (also ProgressiveMetal and epic heavy metal) |
| 158 | * Music/{{Witchcraft}} (formed as a Pentagram cover band at that) |
| 159 | * Music/WitchfinderGeneral |
| 160 | * Music/WithTheDead (supergroup featuring [[Music/CathedralBand Lee Dorrian]], [[Music/ElectricWizard Tim Bagshaw, and Mark Greening]]; they largely sound like a mix of the two main parent acts) |
| 161 | [[/index]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | '''Sludge Metal'''\ |
| 164 | As mentioned above, 'sludge metal' also known as 'sludgecore' or simply 'sludge' is a crossover of doom metal fused with hardcore punk, possibly with southern rock, grindcore, industrial and noise rock influences. Sludge metal is typically aggressive and abrasive, often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments, sharply contrasting tempos and lots of noise & feedback. |
| 165 | |
| 166 | In other words, it's [[Main/{{Grunge}} Grunge's]] truest successor, and much like it's predecessor, the 'sludge' label has applied very loosely to the bands under it. This split in the perceived meaning of 'sludge' later gave rise to the 'post-metal' genre, and depending on the band there's also a certain amount of overlap with crust punk, powerviolence, drone, and beatdown hardcore. |
| 167 | [[index]] |
| 168 | * [[Music/{{Sixteen}} 16]] |
| 169 | * Music/TheAbominableIronSloth |
| 170 | * Music/TheAcaciaStrain (''Failure Will Follow'') |
| 171 | * Music/AcidBath (along with a [[GenreRoulette whole lot of other genres]]) |
| 172 | * Music/AcidPriest |
| 173 | * Music/AdmiralAngry (mixed with {{Metalcore}}) |
| 174 | * Music/AgoraphobicNosebleed (''Arc'' EP only) |
| 175 | * Music/AliceInChains ({{Grunge}} and AlternativeMetal; several songs throughout their career cross over into Sludge territory on their third and fifth studio albums, while their second album flirts with Stoner Rock and traditional Doom Metal.) |
| 176 | ** Music/JerryCantrell (A few songs on the ''Degradation Trip'' albums, check out 'Spiderbite' and come back.) |
| 177 | * Music/{{Amenra}} |
| 178 | * Music/ArmedForApocalypse (mixed with crust punk) |
| 179 | * Music/{{Baroness}} |
| 180 | * Music/BigBusiness |
| 181 | * Music/BlackFlag (Main/UrExample: Many important bands honor the second side of ''My War'' as the inception of the whole genre.) |
| 182 | * Music/BlackSheepWall (mixed with [[{{Deathcore}} downtempo]]) |
| 183 | * Music/TheBody (along with drone doom and dark ambient) |
| 184 | * Music/{{Boris}} [[GenreRoulette (on some albums)]] |
| 185 | * Music/BottomFeeder |
| 186 | * Music/BurningWitch[[note]]Also see Music/SunnO and Music/{{Khanate}}[[/note]] |
| 187 | * [[Music/{{Buzzoven}} Buzzov*en]] (TropeCodifier mainly for the faster aggressive side of sludge by adding power Groove) |
| 188 | * Music/CallOfTheVoid (mixed with metalcore and crust punk) |
| 189 | * Music/CodeOrange (along with metalcore and beatdown) |
| 190 | * Music/CorrosionOfConformity (along with Stoner and Southern Rock, formerly a Crossover Thrash band) |
| 191 | * Music/{{Corrupted}} |
| 192 | * Music/CouchSlut |
| 193 | * Music/{{Cough}} (mixed with stoner) |
| 194 | * Music/{{Crowbar}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 195 | * Disbelief (mixed with DeathMetal) |
| 196 | * Music/{{Down}} |
| 197 | * Music/{{Dystopia}} (overlaps with crust punk) |
| 198 | * [[Music/{{Eyehategod}} Eyehategod]] (another TropeCodifier, [[OlderThanTheyThink and formed one year before Crowbar]]) |
| 199 | * Music/{{Fister}} |
| 200 | * Music/{{Fistula}} |
| 201 | * FullOfHell (early material, along with grindcore, powerviolence, and noise; they became deathgrind on the Nails split and ''Trumpeting Ecstasy'') |
| 202 | * Music/{{Godflesh}} (also IndustrialMetal) |
| 203 | * Music/GravesAtSea |
| 204 | * Music/{{Grief}} |
| 205 | * Music/HarveyMilk |
| 206 | * Music/HeIsLegend |
| 207 | * Music/{{Hell}} (mixed with drone doom) |
| 208 | * Music/HighOnFire (fronted by the former guitarist of Sleep, also has some overlap with ThrashMetal and Stoner Metal) |
| 209 | * Music/{{Howl}} |
| 210 | * Music/{{Indian}} (mixed with noise) |
| 211 | * Music/IronMonkey |
| 212 | * Music/{{Jucifer}} |
| 213 | * Music/KENMode (also NoiseRock) |
| 214 | * Music/KingdomOfSorrow (a collaboration between [[Music/{{Hatebreed}} Jamey Jasta]] and [[Music/{{Crowbar}} Kirk Windstein]]) |
| 215 | * Music/{{Kylesa}} |
| 216 | * Music/LordDying |
| 217 | * Music/{{Mastiff}} |
| 218 | * Music/{{Mastodon}} (mixed with ProgressiveMetal) |
| 219 | * Music/TheMelvins (TropeMaker; also counts as {{Grunge}} and GenreMashup) |
| 220 | * Music/MethDrinker |
| 221 | * Music/{{Mortals}} |
| 222 | * Music/{{Nirvana}} (while almost universally considered a {{Grunge}} band, many of the bands early demos (particularly those released under the ''Fecal Matter'' moniker) and releases sonically overlap with sludge significantly, no doubt as a result of the band's association with Music/TheMelvins |
| 223 | * Music/{{Noothgrush}} |
| 224 | * Music/TheOcean (with progressive and post-metal tendencies) |
| 225 | * Music/OpenTomb |
| 226 | * Music/PrimitiveMan (mixed with noise, death-doom, and BlackMetal) |
| 227 | * Music/{{Salome}} |
| 228 | * Music/{{Sloth}} (pre-2012 work. Eventually switched to HarshNoise, though they do release casettes in their old style every now and then.) |
| 229 | * Music/SoilentGreen (a GenreBusting example mixing this, death metal, and grindcore) |
| 230 | * Su19b |
| 231 | * Music/{{Tetsuo}} (mixed with noise and grindcore) |
| 232 | * Music/{{Thou}} ( Mixed with Atmospheric BlackMetal and {{Grunge}}) |
| 233 | * Music/ThoughtsOfIonesco |
| 234 | * Music/ThyGriefEternal |
| 235 | * Music/{{Trenches}} (also counted as [[ChristianRock Christian]] {{Metalcore}}) |
| 236 | * Music/UnearthlyTrance |
| 237 | * Music/VerminWomb (Mixed with {{grindcore}}, BlackMetal, and DeathMetal) |
| 238 | * Music/WeekendNachos (overlaps with powerviolence) |
| 239 | * Music/{{Whitehorse}} |
| 240 | * Music/{{Whores}} (along with noise rock) |
| 241 | * Music/ChelseaWolfe (entered this genre on ''Hiss Spun''. Also incorporates elements of folk, goth rock, industrial, and alternative rock) |
| 242 | * Music/{{Xibalba}} (overlaps with metalcore and beatdown hardcore) |
| 243 | * Music/{{Yautja}} (Mixed with grindcore) |
| 244 | * Music/{{YOB}} (mixed with stoner and psychedelic elements) |
| 245 | [[/index]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | '''Stoner Metal'''\ |
| 248 | Stoner metal, also known as "stoner rock" and "desert rock", is essentially doom fused with PsychedelicRock. It is characterised by often being bass-heavy and making much use of guitar/bass effects such as fuzz, phaser or flanger. The main stoner metal scene is in the Palm Desert. There ''is'' a difference between stoner metal and stoner rock (stoner rock is more groove-oriented and fully rooted in '70s psychedelia, stoner metal is slower and heavier and a tad more oriented towards hardcore punk ala sludge metal and is also often more jam-oriented; Church of Misery is a particularly good example of that tendency), but there's enough overlap that bands of both genres can be listed here. |
| 249 | |
| 250 | '''Note''': Stoner rock/metal and doom metal are used interchangeably by the press, so don't be surprised if these bands are labeled 'doom metal' in some circles. |
| 251 | [[index]] |
| 252 | * 7Zuma7 |
| 253 | * Music/AcidKing |
| 254 | * Music/{{Acrimony}} |
| 255 | * Music/AlabamaThunderpussy |
| 256 | * Music/{{Altamont}} (a side project containing members of Music/TheMelvins and Music/AcidKing) |
| 257 | * Music/{{ASG}} |
| 258 | * Music/AsthmaCastle |
| 259 | * Music/AtomicBitchwax |
| 260 | * Music/{{Bongripper}} (A rather [[GenreBusting eclectic]] group, but their core style is stoner doom.) |
| 261 | * Music/{{Bongzilla}} (mixed with sludge metal) |
| 262 | * Music/BrantBjork (he was also a member of Music/{{Kyuss}}, Music/FatsoJetson, Music/FuManchu and Music/{{Che}}, among others) |
| 263 | * Music/BlindDog |
| 264 | * Music/{{Buffalo}} (''Volcanic Rock'', alongside albums such as ''[[Music/SirLordBaltimore Kingdom Come]]'' and ''[[Music/BlackSabbath Master of Reality]]'', is one of the earliest examples.) |
| 265 | * Music/CamelOfDoom |
| 266 | * Music/{{Cathedral|Band}} (depending on the album) |
| 267 | * Music/{{Che}} |
| 268 | * Music/ChurchOfMisery |
| 269 | * Music/{{CKY}} |
| 270 | * Music/{{Clearlight}} (also known as The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight; side project composed of members of Music/{{Down}}, Music/{{Crowbar}} and Music/{{Eyehategod}}, and completely {{Instrumental}} to boot) |
| 271 | * Music/{{Clutch}} (also FunkMetal and AlternativeMetal) |
| 272 | * Music/{{Coffins}} (mixed with death/doom metal) |
| 273 | * Music/{{Dozer}} |
| 274 | * [[Music/{{Earthlings}} earthlings?]] (a supergroup containing members of Music/{{Kyuss}}, Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge, Masters of Reality and Goatsnake, among others) |
| 275 | * Music/{{Earthride}} |
| 276 | * Music/ElectricCitizen |
| 277 | * Music/ElectricWizard (TropeCodifier) |
| 278 | * Music/{{Elder}} (Stoner metal with psychedelic and groovy sensibilities.) |
| 279 | * Music/EternalElysium |
| 280 | * Music/FatsoJetson (a noticeably PunkRock-influenced band who heavily influenced Music/{{Kyuss}}, among others) |
| 281 | * Music/FireballMinistry (mixed with Sludge Metal) |
| 282 | * Music/{{Firebird}} |
| 283 | * Music/FuManchu |
| 284 | * [[Music/GhostBand Ghost]] (sometimes disputed as being doom/stoner, instead being seen as straight rock) |
| 285 | * Music/{{Goatsnake}} |
| 286 | * Music/GoblinCock |
| 287 | * Music/{{Gozu}} |
| 288 | * Music/GrandMagus |
| 289 | * Music/{{Graveyard}} |
| 290 | * Music/HeIsLegend (first album was alt-metal/post-hardcore) |
| 291 | * Music/TheHiddenHand (features Wino Weinrich, of SaintVitus, The Obsessed and Spirit Caravan) |
| 292 | * Music/HighOnFire (also Sludge and, sometimes, ThrashMetal) |
| 293 | * Music/{{Howling Giant}} |
| 294 | * Music/InternalVoid |
| 295 | * Music/KarmaToBurn |
| 296 | * Music/{{Kyuss}} (TropeMaker along with Sleep) |
| 297 | * Music/{{Livid}} |
| 298 | * Music/LosNatas |
| 299 | * Music/{{Lowrider}} |
| 300 | * Music/MastersOfReality (also BluesRock) |
| 301 | * Music/{{Melvins}} ([[GenreRoulette if they feel like it]]) |
| 302 | * Music/MondoGenerator |
| 303 | * Music/MonsterMagnet (one of the [[TropeCodifier trope codifiers]]- they've been around since '89, after all) |
| 304 | * Music/MosGenerator |
| 305 | * Music/TheMushroomRiverBand |
| 306 | * Music/{{Nebula}} |
| 307 | * Music/{{Om}} |
| 308 | * Music/OrangeGoblin |
| 309 | * Music/{{Orchid}} |
| 310 | * Music/PhantomGlue |
| 311 | * Music/PharaohOverlord |
| 312 | * Music/{{Priestess}} |
| 313 | * Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge (the first two albums and the occasional song thereafter) |
| 314 | ** 1998 - ''Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge'' |
| 315 | * Music/RainbowsAreFree |
| 316 | * Music/RoyalThunder (Stoner metal meets indie rock) |
| 317 | * Music/RedFang |
| 318 | * Music/{{Scissorfight}} |
| 319 | * Seemless |
| 320 | * Music/{{Sheavy}} |
| 321 | * Music/SheLovesPablo |
| 322 | * Music/{{Shrinebuilder}} (supergroup comprised of Wino of Saint Vitus and a thousand other bands, Al Cisneros of Sleep and Om, Scott Kelly of Neurosis, and Dale Crover of Melvins) |
| 323 | * Music/SirLordBaltimore (''Kingdom Come'' is more-or-less the UrExample) |
| 324 | * Music/SixtyWattShaman |
| 325 | * Music/{{Sleep}} (TropeMaker along with Music/{{Kyuss}}) |
| 326 | * Music/SloBurn |
| 327 | * Music/{{Solace}} |
| 328 | * Music/{{Solarized}} |
| 329 | * Music/SonsOfOtis |
| 330 | * Music/{{Soundgarden}} (Mixed with {{Grunge}}. Sometimes considered the first "modern" stoner metal band [as opposed to earlier, more primitive bands such as Sir Lord Baltimore, Black Sabbath, and Buffalo].) |
| 331 | * Music/SpiritCaravan |
| 332 | * Music/SpiritualBeggars |
| 333 | * Music/StinkingLizaveta (A jazzy/psychedelic edge that makes them a little harder to classify, but definitely Stoner Metal at core) |
| 334 | * Music/TheSword |
| 335 | * Music/{{Torche}} |
| 336 | * Music/{{Truckfighters}} |
| 337 | * Music/TweakBird |
| 338 | * Music/{{Ufomammut}} (with particularly heavy psychedelic and space rock elements) |
| 339 | * Music/{{Unida}} |
| 340 | * Music/{{Unorthodox}} |
| 341 | * Music/{{Weedeater}} |
| 342 | * Music/{{Windhand}} |
| 343 | * Music/{{Witch}} (a side project by Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis) |
| 344 | * Music/WoFat |
| 345 | * Music/{{Wolfmother}} |
| 346 | * Music/WoolyMammoth |
| 347 | * Music/YawningMan |
| 348 | * Music/YearLongDisaster |
| 349 | [[/index]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | '''Post-Metal'''\ |
| 352 | As described above, this is what happens when sludge metal is fused with post-rock (and, depending on the band, possibly also shoegaze or country). Also known as "atmospheric sludge metal". The term "post-metal" is sometimes (though less frequently) used as a much broader term for metal bands with post-rock tendencies, eg. Sunn O))), Agalloch and Wolves in the Throne Room. As of the 2010s, there is also occasionally some overlap with certain technical and blackened death metal acts, which can largely be owed to the popularity and influence of Ulcerate.\ |
| 353 | See also the BlackMetal page for bands that fuse post-metal and BlackMetal (listed under "Post-Black Metal and Blackened Shoegaze", although these are two distinct styles). |
| 354 | [[index]] |
| 355 | * Music/TheAcaciaStrain (''It Comes in Waves'' only, though their modern material has occasional nods to it on certain tracks and ''Slow Decay'' takes a fair bit of influence from it) |
| 356 | * Music/{{Amebix}} (later work) |
| 357 | * Music/{{Amenra}} |
| 358 | * Music/TheAngelicProcess (mixed with {{Shoegaze}} and drone doom) |
| 359 | * Music/{{Barishi}} (also mathcore on their earlier material; they abandoned this for a more prog-oriented sound on ''Old Smoke'') |
| 360 | * Music/BattleOfMice |
| 361 | * Music/BeyondTerrorBeyondGrace (''Nadir'', mixed with blackened death metal) |
| 362 | * Music/{{Burst}} (mixed with metalcore) |
| 363 | * Music/{{Callisto}} |
| 364 | * Music/{{Conjurer}} (also black metal and metalcore) |
| 365 | * CountlessSkies (also MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 366 | * Music/{{Cult Of Luna}} |
| 367 | * Music/{{Departe}} (also blackened death metal) |
| 368 | * Music/{{Dirge}} |
| 369 | * Music/DownfallOfGaia (mixed with crust punk) |
| 370 | * Music/EightBells (also post-black) |
| 371 | * Music/FallOfEfrafa |
| 372 | * Music/GiantSquid |
| 373 | * Music/{{Godflesh}} (Possible UrExample; some of their work fits roughly within the genre) |
| 374 | * [=InAeona=] (mixed with shoegaze) |
| 375 | * Music/InterArma (mixed with black metal and Southern rock) |
| 376 | * Music/{{Intronaut}} |
| 377 | * Music/{{Isis}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 378 | * Music/{{Jesu}} |
| 379 | * Music/{{Loathe}} (mixed with metalcore, ProgressiveMetal and NuMetal; ''The Cold Sun'' includes flirtations with {{deathcore}}, while the follow-up ''I Let It In And It Took Everything'' adds in elements of {{Ambient}} and {{Shoegaze}}) |
| 380 | * Music/MouthOfTheArchitect |
| 381 | * Music/{{Minsk}} |
| 382 | * Music/{{Neurosis}} (TropeMaker) |
| 383 | * Music/NuxVomica (probably the closest that one can come to categorizing [[GenreBusting their sound]]) |
| 384 | * Music/OldManGloom |
| 385 | * Music/TheOtherSideOfTheSky |
| 386 | * Music/{{Pelican}} |
| 387 | * Music/{{Spiritbox}} (mixed with metalcore and {{djent}}) |
| 388 | * Music/RussianCircles |
| 389 | * Music/{{Ulcerate}} (mixed with technical death metal) |
| 390 | * Music/{{Underoath}} (their work from ''Define the Great Line'' to their 2013 breakup combines this with {{Metalcore}}) |
| 391 | * Music/{{Wrvth}} (''No Rising Sun'', also metalcore) |
| 392 | * Music/YearOfNoLight |
| 393 | * Music/{{Zhrine}} (also blackened death metal) |
| 394 | [[/index]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | '''[[DroneOfDread Drone Doom]]''' or '''Drone Metal'''\ |
| 397 | 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 minimalistic and brutal, and ''extremely creepy''.[[note]]Its polar opposite would be DreamPop, which is musical SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel.[[/note]] |
| 398 | [[index]] |
| 399 | * Music/TheAngelicProcess (mixed with {{Shoegaze}} and post-metal) |
| 400 | * Author & Punisher (mixed with industrial metal, traditional industrial and power noise, notable for using entirely electronic instrumentation) |
| 401 | * Music/BlackBonedAngel |
| 402 | * Music/TheBody (along with sludge metal) |
| 403 | * Music/{{Boris}} (only on some albums, though) |
| 404 | * Music/{{Corrupted}} (mixed with sludge, notable for writing their lyrics in Spanish despite coming from Japan) |
| 405 | * Music/{{Earth}} (TropeMakers, probable UrExample) |
| 406 | * Music/{{Hell}} (mixed with sludge) |
| 407 | * Music/{{Jesu}} |
| 408 | * Music/{{Khanate}} (along with sludge metal) |
| 409 | * Music/{{Khlyst}} |
| 410 | * Music/{{KTL}} |
| 411 | * Music/{{Melvins}} (Lysol/Self-Titled) |
| 412 | * Music/{{Monarch}} |
| 413 | * Music/{{Moss}} (mixed with sludge) |
| 414 | * Music/PigDestroyer (On ''Natasha'' and ''Mass and Volume''. Other material is {{grindcore}}) |
| 415 | * [[Music/SunnO Sunn O)))]] (TropeCodifier) |
| 416 | * Music/{{Svetlana}} |
| 417 | * Music/TeethOfLionsRuleTheDivine |
| 418 | * Music/{{Wormphlegm}} |
| 419 | * Music/{{Wolvserpent}} (With some black metal elements) |
| 420 | [[/index]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | '''Death/Doom Metal'''\ |
| 423 | See DeathMetal for description and list of bands. |
| 424 | |
| 425 | '''Funeral Doom'''\ |
| 426 | Evolving from death/doom (particularly due to the death/doom band Disembowelment), funeral doom can be described as "death/doom amped up". 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. |
| 427 | [[index]] |
| 428 | * Music/{{Aabsynthum}} |
| 429 | * Music/{{Abbotoir}} |
| 430 | * Music/{{Abyssmal Sorrow}} (also Black-Doom) |
| 431 | * Music/AbysmalGrowlsOfDespair |
| 432 | * Music/{{Ahab}} |
| 433 | * Music/AphonicThrenody |
| 434 | * Music/ArcanaCoelestia |
| 435 | * Music/{{Asunder}} |
| 436 | * Music/BellWitch (with traces of drone doom) |
| 437 | * Music/{{Bereft}} (with a noticeably strong death metal undercurrent) |
| 438 | * Music/{{Catacombs}} |
| 439 | * Music/{{Colosseum}} |
| 440 | * Music/{{Corrupted}} (On ''Garten der Unbewusstheit'' only. Other material is sludge mixed with drone) |
| 441 | * Music/{{Dartropia}} |
| 442 | * Music/DescendIntoDespair |
| 443 | * Music/DepressedMode (First album; afterwards they became "symphonic death/doom".) |
| 444 | * Music/{{Disembowelment}} (Not truly a part of the subgenre, but heavily influential in its formation.) |
| 445 | * [[Music/DoomVS Doom:VS]] |
| 446 | * Music/DreamsAfterDeath |
| 447 | * Music/DysphorianBreed |
| 448 | * Music/{{Eird}} |
| 449 | * Music/ElysianBlaze (Mixed with [[BlackMetal Depressive Suicidal Black Metal]]) |
| 450 | * Music/{{Ennui}} |
| 451 | * Music/{{Enth}} |
| 452 | * Music/{{Esoteric}} (Mixed with psychedelic elements.) |
| 453 | * Music/{{Evoken}} |
| 454 | * Music/EyeOfSolitude (heavy overlap with death/doom) |
| 455 | * Music/{{Fliegend}} (also Black-Doom) |
| 456 | * [[Music/{{FuneralBand}} Funeral]] (TropeNamer, though only their early material was funeral doom; later work is straight-up doom with some [[GothicMetal gothic]] tendencies.) |
| 457 | * Music/FuneralMoth |
| 458 | * Music/TheFuneralOrchestra |
| 459 | * Music/{{Funeris}} |
| 460 | * Music/FuneralTears |
| 461 | * Music/FuocoFatuo |
| 462 | * Music/{{Hierophant}} |
| 463 | * Music/{{Introvertum}} |
| 464 | * Music/LoneWanderer |
| 465 | * Music/{{Lordamor}} |
| 466 | * Music/{{Loss}} |
| 467 | * Music/{{Luna}} (not to be confused with the DreamPop band of the same name) |
| 468 | * Music/{{Lycus}} |
| 469 | * Music/MistressOfTheDead |
| 470 | * Music/{{Monolithe}} |
| 471 | * Music/{{Mordor}} (Specifically the band that did ''Odes'' & ''Csejthe''; also Black-Doom) |
| 472 | * Music/MournfulCongregation |
| 473 | * Music/{{Nagaarum}} |
| 474 | * Music/NarrowHouse |
| 475 | * Music/{{Nauthisuruz}} |
| 476 | * Music/{{Nortt}} |
| 477 | * Music/{{Pantheist}} |
| 478 | * Music/PlateauSigma (also Death-Doom) |
| 479 | * Music/{{Profetus}} |
| 480 | * Music/{{Quercus}} (albeit with some [[AvantgardeMetal avant-garde]] tendencies) |
| 481 | * Music/SepticMind |
| 482 | * Music/ShapeOfDespair |
| 483 | * Music/{{Shuja}} |
| 484 | * Music/{{Skepticism}} (TropeCodifier) |
| 485 | * Music/SorrowOfRain |
| 486 | * Music/TheatreOfTragedy |
| 487 | * Music/{{Thergothon}} (TropeMaker, possible UrExample if you exclude Disembowelment.) |
| 488 | * Music/{{Tyranny}} |
| 489 | * Music/UntilDeathOvertakesMe (The guy behind this project has twelve others, variably related to Doom: Beyond Black Void, Fall Of The Grey-Winged One, Dreams Of Dying Stars etc and plays bass in In Somnis too.) |
| 490 | * Music/VacantEyes |
| 491 | * Music/{{Vizant}} |
| 492 | * Music/{{Wither}} |
| 493 | * Music/WithoutDreams |
| 494 | * Music/{{Wormphlegm}} |
| 495 | * Music/{{Worship}} |
| 496 | [[/index]] |
| 497 | |
| 498 | '''Black Doom''' or '''Blackened Doom'''\ |
| 499 | Doom fused with BlackMetal. Typically, vocals are in the form of high-pitched shrieks and guitars are played with much distortion, which is common in black metal. But the music is played at a slow tempo with a much 'thicker' guitar sound, which is common in doom metal. Lyrics often involve themes of nature, nihilism and depression, but the more sludge-leaning acts usually switch that out for hatred, self-loathing, and misanthropy. Often overlaps with [[DespairEventHorizon Depressive]]/[[DrivenToSuicide Suicidal]] BlackMetal. |
| 500 | [[index]] |
| 501 | * Music/{{Abyssmal Sorrow}} (also Funeral Doom) |
| 502 | * Music/{{Agalloch}} (also FolkMetal) |
| 503 | * Music/{{Ajattara}} |
| 504 | * Music/{{Barathrum}} (early) |
| 505 | * Music/{{Bast}} (also has elements of sludge) |
| 506 | * Music/{{Batillus}} |
| 507 | * Music/{{Beatrik}} (later) |
| 508 | * Music/{{Bethlehem}} ([[GenreBusting notoriously difficult to classify]], but this is probably as close as you could come to finding a conventional label that sticks) |
| 509 | * Music/{{Black Mass of Absu}} |
| 510 | * Music/CelticFrost (circa Monotheist) |
| 511 | * Music/{{Coffinworm}} (mixed with sludge) |
| 512 | * Music/{{Deinonychus}} |
| 513 | * Music/{{Dolorian}} (lots of experimental/psychedelic sounds) |
| 514 | * Music/DraggedIntoSunlight ([[GenreBusting probably the modern Bethlehem]] in terms of difficulty to pin down a genre, but again, this is the closest) |
| 515 | * Music/{{Fliegend}} (also Funeral-Doom) |
| 516 | * Music/ForgottenTomb |
| 517 | * Music/{{Gallhammer}} (only some of their material, also crust punk) |
| 518 | * Music/{{Ghorot}} |
| 519 | * Music/{{Katatonia}} (early) |
| 520 | * Music/TheLionsDaughter (mixed with sludge) |
| 521 | * Music/LordMantis (mixed with sludge and IndustrialMetal) |
| 522 | * Music/{{Mizmor}} |
| 523 | * Music/{{Mordor}} (Specifically the band that did ''Odes'' & ''Csejthe''; also Funeral Doom) |
| 524 | * Music/{{Nortt}} |
| 525 | * Music/NocturnalDepression |
| 526 | * Music/{{Primordial|Band}} (also FolkMetal) |
| 527 | * Music/{{Sorrowseed}} (overlaps with Gothic Metal and Melodic BlackMetal, moreso on their first album than their newest, which drops a lot of the gothic and doom elements in favor of more black metal) |
| 528 | * Music/{{The Ruins of Beverast}} (overlaps somewhat with Funeral Doom, which has always been an influence on his music, on ''Blood Vaults'') |
| 529 | * Music/{{Upheaval}} |
| 530 | * Music/{{Usnea}} |
| 531 | * Music/VattnetViskar (Also Sludge Metal) |
| 532 | * Music/{{Wolvhammer}} (Also black 'n roll as of late) |
| 533 | * Music/WoodsOfYpres (later became GothicMetal) |
| 534 | * Worm (GenreBusting example that mixes this, death/doom, and funeral doom) |
| 535 | [[/index]] |
| 536 | |
| 537 | If you're wondering why there isn't a list for death/doom, it's because that list is already present on the DeathMetal page. |
| 538 | |
| 539 | !!Doom metal displays the following tropes: |
| 540 | |
| 541 | * AuthorAppeal: As with every genre as massive as this, there are bound to be repeated ideas in the lyrics that are linked to something the lyricist likes. |
| 542 | ** Stoner Metal: Weed, deserts, occasionally horror and counterculture movies. |
| 543 | ** Sludge Metal: Hatred, misanthropy, self-loathing, and self-abuse. |
| 544 | ** Traditional/Epic: Occult and satanism, occasionally Christianity or Howard-esque sword-and-sorcery. |
| 545 | ** Funeral Doom: Hopelessness and existentialism. |
| 546 | ** Heavy Psych: Psychedelia (original acts), Horror and exploitation movies (revivalist acts) |
| 547 | ** Occult Rock: Occultism and mysticism |
| 548 | * BrownNote: Drone Doom and Sludge Metal in particular are often drenched in feedback, leading to this trope. |
| 549 | * CarefulWithThatAxe: Sludge metal bands typically utilize extremely harsh and pissed off-sounding screaming as their main vocal style. |
| 550 | * ChristianRock: Surprisingly, Doom Metal seems to tolerate Christian bands far more than [[BlackMetal certain other genres]] do, possibly because quite a few of the genre's founding bands (e.g. Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Pentagram}}, Music/{{Candlemass}}, Trouble, and Place of Skulls) qualify as this or AmbiguouslyChristian, and sludge also tends to be somewhat tolerant of it (depending on the region) due to a mix of this and numerous musicians who practice the Christian faith; Music/{{Crowbar}} is a good example of a prominent sludge act with unambiguously Christian lyrical content. |
| 551 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Music/BlackSabbath DarkerAndEdgier, to be exact. For an in-subgenre example, funeral doom is the DarkerAndEdgier version of death/doom, with a lot more keyboards and a more obvious air of depressiveness. |
| 552 | * DeepSouth: The birthplace of sludge as a recognizable genre and a central part of the identity of many early acts, and also a common place for sludge and stoner acts to come from (particularly Louisiana and Georgia). There also tends to be a surprising amount of overlap between sludge and various regional country and bluegrass scenes and fandoms. |
| 553 | * DespairEventHorizon: Funeral doom. |
| 554 | ** Shows up sometimes in other subgenres as well. Warning's ''Watching from a Distance'' is an excellent example of this. It almost sounds like what would have happened if Music/JoyDivision played doom metal. |
| 555 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: It's right there in the genre name. A rather large number of bands also have at least one song with the word "Doom" prominent in the title and/or lyrics. |
| 556 | * DroneOfDread: Drone metal is all about this, but it also shows up in other subgenres. |
| 557 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Less for the doom subgenre and more for the heavy metal subgenre as a whole. Because Black Sabbath are crowned as the first heavy ''and'' doom metal band and many other proto-metal bands of that era are now considered to also be proto-doom or very influential to later doom and stoner metal acts, heavy metal arguably began ''with'' doom metal. This has led to three unusual occurrences: |
| 558 | ** Doom metal's origins are technically as ''pop music'', as Black Sabbath circa 1970-1975 were very much a mainstream rock band, if not exactly beloved by the music press of the time. |
| 559 | ** Heavy metal, a genre almost universally recognized for its blistering speed and hypermasculine aggression, began with a subgenre universally recognized for its ''lack of speed'' and vulnerable lyricism. |
| 560 | ** HeavyMetal, especially European ones, takes a lot of influence from ClassicalMusic, but earlier bands were much more [[BluesRock bluesier]] than later ones and doom metal makes significant use of blues scales. |
| 561 | * EpicRocking: Due to the fact that this genre is all about being slow and doomy, it's {{Justified|Trope}}. It's not uncommon for bands in the genre to record albums consisting of effectively a single track. |
| 562 | * GenreRoulette: Some experimental rock/metal bands loosely associated with doom, like Boris and Melvins, are prone to this. |
| 563 | * GrooveMetal: Groove metal can sometimes be thought as doom metal meets ThrashMetal. |
| 564 | * {{Grunge}}: The close relationship between {{Grunge}} and Sludge are often downplayed by mainstream press and fans of each genre, but taken without the context of grunge rock's incredible success in the early '90s before the rise of PostGrunge and NuMetal, both can be considered sister genres, especially thanks to Music/TheMelvins' influence. |
| 565 | ** One can even find a close relationship between {{Grunge}} and stoner rock as well. Indeed, between grunge, stoner rock, and sludge, there is a common sonic root that is only tempered by certain tertiary stylistic origins: all three mix doom metal, hardcore punk, and early hard rock, but grunge runs with AlternativeRock, stoner rock adds more PsychedelicRock, and sludge doubled down on doom metal. Early Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Music/{{Mudhoney}}, and Music/AliceInChains all had full songs and elements of sludge and stoner rock, with Soundgarden sometimes treated as one origin point of stoner rock alongside Music/MonsterMagnet and Masters of Reality. Though Nirvana and Mudhoney dropped these influences entirely not long into their discography, Soundgarden never quite left their fusion of retro-rock and stoner rock-influenced punk while Alice in Chains eventually became outright doom/sludge on their post-Staley albums. Meanwhile, especially in the 1990s, bands like Music/{{Kyuss}}, Music/{{Sleep}}, and Fu Manchu were originally seen ''as'' unusually '70s-style grunge rock bands before the stoner rock label was created. |
| 566 | * LeaveTheCameraRunning: Quite common, especially in drone, funeral doom and sludge. |
| 567 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Sludge metal is this trope in musical form thanks to the hateful lyrics and confrontational sound taken from hardcore punk. |
| 568 | * NightmareFuel: Though not as omnipresent as BlackMetal and DeathMetal, doom metal can have some pretty terrifying songs through the gloomy lyrics and even gloomier sound they feature. On the other hand, it is ubiquitous among heavier subgenres such as sludge, death-doom, funeral doom, black-doom, and drone doom from the harsher aural signatures they adopt. |
| 569 | * SopranoAndGravel: Some death/doom, funeral doom, and post-metal acts mix clean and harsh vocals. |
| 570 | * SpinOff: {{Gothic Metal}} and Funeral Doom from Death/Doom; Post-Metal from Sludge. |
| 571 | * TropeCodifier: Generally considered to be a combination of Saint Vitus, Music/{{Candlemass}}, Trouble, Cirith Ungol, Pagan Altar, Witchfinder General, and for later doom bands, Cathedral. As for the subgenres: |
| 572 | ** Traditional Doom: Saint Vitus or Trouble |
| 573 | ** Epic Doom: Music/{{Candlemass}} or Solitude Aeturnus |
| 574 | ** Stoner Metal: Sleep or Music/ElectricWizard |
| 575 | ** Sludge Metal: Music/{{Crowbar}}, Buzzov*en, or Music/{{Eyehategod}} |
| 576 | ** Post Metal: Music/{{Neurosis}} or Music/{{Isis}} |
| 577 | ** Drone Metal: [[Music/SunnO Sunn O)))]] |
| 578 | ** [[DeathMetal Death/Doom]]: Music/MyDyingBride, Music/ParadiseLost, and Music/{{Anathema|Band}} (for Doom[=/=]GothicMetal-leaning acts), or Music/{{Autopsy}}, Incantation, and Winter (for DeathMetal-leaning acts) |
| 579 | ** Funeral Doom: Thergothon or Music/{{Skepticism}} |
| 580 | ** [[BlackMetal Black/Doom]]: Deinonychus or, for later acts, Dragged Into Sunlight |
| 581 | * TropeMakers: The actual creation of doom metal as a genre can be blamed on a few bands, including Saint Vitus, Music/{{Candlemass}}, Pagan Altar, Cirith Ungol, Trouble, and Witchfinder General. Sludge, meanwhile, can generally be pinpointed to Black Flag (''My War'' has been ''massively'' influential to the genre), Melvins, and Flipper. |
| 582 | * UrExample: Black Sabbath, if you consider them part of the genre. Blue Cheer is an even earlier example, though it's debatable whether they're even a metal band. Flower Travellin' Band is another one, but they're closer to being an UrExample of stoner rather than doom. Music/TheBeatles' song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' also deserves a mention here. |
| 583 | * WatchItStoned: With doom metal being a subgenre of Black Sabbath worshippers, it's no surprise that a lot of them take a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs fuckload of drugs]]. Stoner metal is the "purest" form of this. |
| 584 | ** However, it should be noted that there are [[Music/SunnO some]] [[Music/{{Khanate}} doom]] [[Music/ElectricWizard bands]] you ''really'' shouldn't listen to while stoned. [[SchmuckBait We]] mean [[BrownNote it]]. |
| 585 | ** The Sword's ''[[PunnyName High Country]]'' LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition box set seems to be encouraging this, as it includes ''[[https://www.indiemerch.com/thesword/item/35845 rolling papers and a grinder card]]''. |
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