Doom Metal

Their own kind of nonsense they call Doom-Wap, they make a quite pleasing racket. One of my favourite newly-discovered bands of late

Aussie psychedelic prog-rockers decided to release a thrash metal album with stoner tuning and style and it fuckin melts your face off. This track here today tho takes a more doomy approach by slowing way the fuck down. Fun Fact, this album came out mere months before the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Before High on Fire, guitarist Matt Pike was in Sleep and definitely worshiped Sabbath a ton. This upload is probably their most famous track, the opener to their influential second album in the stoner metal subgenre.

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Today we have more sludge! Atmospheric and post-rock style. Long ass instrumental from the band Pelican. I present this track today for it's extended length, general vibes, and the flute towards the end lol.

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A bit different than my usual sludge uploads, Soulmass are a death doom band writing songs primarily about From Software videogame franchises (e.g. Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Armored Core) which honestly the worlds they create are ripe with depressing subject matter. This song here is such a vibe about the story connecting the two DLCs for Dark Souls 3.

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Amtospheric progressive sludge metalcore, with shit loads of quiet moments and introspection. This is their second maserpiece, in my opinion, after their Precambrian album 6 years prior.

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This album is a bit of an outlier in My Dying Bride's discography, but I have a soft spot for it. The opening track is immense and feels like a sequel to "The Cry of Mankind" on "The Angel and the Dark River". I love the gloomy vibe this album has.

Not really occupying the Doom metal space, this band is definitely in the heavy metal/power metal camp, but I feel the instruments and voice resonate a lot with doom and stoner metal music. Apologies if you all disagree. Posted and linked is the opener track to their first full-length.

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Opening track to Isis's paramount atmospheric sludge album, Panopticon. Every now and then I find myself spinning this masterpiece and just droning out while occupying myself with something mundane.

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Stoner doom metal with a beautiful sound. Very introspective and got a warm feeling. A bit trippy too.

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Progressive Sludge favorite of mine, aggressive and experimental. Hope you all enjoy the slow buildup and payoff to the main riff, it's rather orgasmic lol.

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Celtic Frost worship mixed with a helping of Slayer/Venom. Yes this is Doom/Thrash, and would go on to inspire many underground bands.

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I believe with all my soul that Black Pyramid's "The Paths of Time are Vast" was the best album of 2024. Perfect blend of trippiness with heaviness. If you somehow missed this one last year, please give it a spin, you won't regret it.

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They were great live! Modern stoner doom band from Newcastle. The female vocals are not only extremely good, but fit well with the music in my opinion.

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I love this track from Monolithe's "Epsilon Aurigae" EP.

I've revisited this band recently and love the riffs in this track.

I do not understand how this is not more known, this epic doom metal album is incredibly kickass.