![]() ![]() ![]() The Swedish band Katatonia got on board and created two highly influential 90’s albums before moving on to more contemporary and experimental music. British bands like Cathedral, Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride merged death metal elements with the melancholy from the doom genre, creating death/doom and gothic metal. In the early 90’s extreme metal made its way into the doom genre. The second and third Solitude Aeturnus albums are big favorites for me to this day. Incredible riffs and songwriting was merged with a melancholy more common in 90’s doom metal. Solitude Aeturnus played a highly Black Sabbath-influenced style, fueled by excellent vocalist Robert Lowe. The only competition for me personally in the classic style comes from Solitude Aeturnus. It’s definitely my favorite doom album from the old school subgenres. Just like the name of the debut album entails, Candlemass cemented the style epic doom metal. The first Candlemass album “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” from 1986 took the music style to a whole new level. This created styles like traditional doom, stoner doom and epic doom. ![]() In the 70’s and early 80’s bands like Pentagram, Pagan Altar, Witchfinder General, Trouble and Saint Vitus built Black Sabbath’s foundation. Black Sabbath continued to make both rocking and doomy songs during their long career, but the song “Black Sabbath” and a few others from their early period certainly laid down the foundation for doom metal music. It has an occult, eerie vibe to it along with guitars that are very distorted and abrasive for its time. Read more about the death/doom metal subgenre or my doom metal band Soliloquium right here on the site.ĭoom metal history – from Black Sabbath to the 2000’sīlack Sabbath’s self-titled track from their self-titled debut album (1969) is almost universally agreed upon as the first doom metal song. The map of doom metal subgenres below is a great package to start if you want to know how the different styles sound. I won’t step on any toes, but my band tips will be much more on point in my familar subgenres. My knowledge of the more Black Sabbath-based styles is limited. Personal taste disclaimer: I’m more into the extreme styles of doom metal like death/doom. Some bands 15 minute songs with very few chords. The genre is merged with everything from progressive and melodic styles to drone, psychedelic and many more. In short, there are bands in the doom style that reach from terribly depressive to almost feel-good. I’m also hoping you’ll leave the site with some new favorite bands. Hopefully you’ll know a lot more about the music style after reading this. I’ll also link out to other articles where you can read more about the different subgenres. We’ll go through all those in this main article. If you’re just starting out with the genre you’ll need to know that there are many different subgenres. If you’re searching for new music in the style, it would be awesome if you listened to my stuff on: This is one of the ways I promote Soliloquium, my progressive death/doom metal band. I’m Stefan Nordström, an aspiring musician and content creator. I hope you’ll still enjoy the ride! About the author My writing is more biased, and I will be shameless enough to talk about my own band a few times during this article. They have a broader scope, and it’s a very good place to find new, unknown bands. Beyond this article, is one hell of a resource for the doom metal genre overall. ![]() In this article you’ll find my full guide to the genre, including chronological history, subgenres and regional scenes. Black Sabbath is considered the first metal band, as well as the first doom metal band. The vocals can range from clean, operatic vocals to death metal growls or other extreme sounds. The tempos are slow and the music tends to have a bleak atmosphere. Doom metal is a slow style of metal music, often focused on heavy, downtuned guitars. ![]()
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