Wrath of the Doom Goddess
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The Brotherhood Of Doom Metal
Put together by the joint effort of mirkwood raven, A Throne Of Souls, and myself this thread will be the central discussion place for all things doom metal. Inside you will find definitions of the various styles of metals most varied subgenre, doom.
Explainations of each subgenre was written out by one of the three people who put their work into this thread.
Explainations of each subgenre was written out by one of the three people who put their work into this thread.
Definitions:
Traditional Doom:
Drawing direct influence from the riffs of the great and easily first metal band, Black Sabbath as well as bands such as Pentagram, Traditional Doom was the first of the doom sub genres to come around. It is slow, heavy, and keeps the rocky influence that Sabbath and their contemporaries possessed. During the 1980s, it was the biggest and most ripe style of doom; Infact being the only style of doom until bands like Winter and diSEMBOWELMENT came around in the late 1980s.
Pioneering Bands: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, St. Vitus, and Trouble
Notable Bands: Candlemass, Reverend Bizarre, Grand Magus, Solitude Aeternus, and Count Raven
Doom/Death
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a style of doom emerged that was even slower and even heavier than Traditional Doom was, this style was Doom/Death. It swept the doom scene by storm and soon became the sub-genres new face. It takes the formula of traditional doom metal, slows it down and gives it a more melancholic and dark face, with influences from death metal. The most noticeable influence from death metal is the use of harsh vocals, though more influences can be heard in the early works of many doom/death bands. Due to the death metal influence the early rockier sound that the traditional doom bands does not appear as often in Doom/Death. Many bands incorporate instruments such as violins and pianos to create a more romantic and somber sound.
Pioneering Bands: diSEMBOWELMENT, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Katatonia
Notable Bands: Morgion, Saturnus, Novembers Doom, Thorr’s Hammer, Paramaecium
Stoner Rock/Stoner Doom
Stoner Rock developed out of early Black Sabbath, most of the bands in the genre claiming it as their major influence. Most notably the song Electric Funeral. Using a proto-doom or traditional doom sound as a base stoner rock bands try to generate a more groovy sound or add in psychadelica elements. Bands tend to stay very true to a jazz sound as well, with many bands incorperating elements of southern rock. Many musicians in the genre tend to have lots of side projects.
Early pioneers: Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Electric Wizard
honerable mention: Orange Monkey, Sleep, Acid King, Burning Witch, Goatsnake
Sludge Metal
Originally created by the Melvins as a mix between grunge, hardcore, and doom metal the grunge influence quickly faded as other bands started to pick up on the trend. Mixing hardcore punk riffing, drumming, and vocals with doom metal tempo with a metal song structure bands where able to create a very slow and crushing sound. Later elements of post-rock and post-hardcore were added into the genre as bands stared to share similar ideology.
Early Pioneers: Melvins, Crowbar, Neurosis
Honerable mentions: Acid Bath, Mastodon, Lair of the Minotaur, Pelican.
Funeral Doom:
Funeral Doom evolved directly from Death/Doom. Taking the already slow speed and decreasing it further almost to that of a funeral march, hence the name. The music tends to be very heavy, but with a dreamy and calming sound at the same time. The dreamy being acquired from the heavy use of synths and production
techniques. There are however bands, which do not fit into this category, for example Worship. Who only use pianos instead of synths, and does not have the aforementioned dreamy sound; they instead have a very harsh and heavy sound.
Pioneers of the sub-genre: Thergothon, Skepticism and Funeral (Nor)
Bands worth mentioning: Pantheist, Monolithe, Funerary Dirge, Until Death Overtakes Me and Esoteric.
Drone Doom:
Drone Doom seems to exist to take music, to the farthest reaches of heaviness in terms of speed and the amount of down tuning used on the guitars. There is no melody, to be found within this style. It very often has no set tempo or time signature and just seems to flow through wave after wave of droning chord progressions.
Something, which I find funny about this sub-genre, is the names of the three most iconic bands: Sunn, Moonn and Earth
Pioneers of the sub-genre: Earth
Bands worth mentioning: Sunn, Moonn, Bunkur and Beyond Black Void
Wrath of the Doom Goddess
Traditional Doom:
Drawing direct influence from the riffs of the great and easily first metal band, Black Sabbath as well as bands such as Pentagram, Traditional Doom was the first of the doom sub genres to come around. It is slow, heavy, and keeps the rocky influence that Sabbath and their contemporaries possessed. During the 1980s, it was the biggest and most ripe style of doom; Infact being the only style of doom until bands like Winter and diSEMBOWELMENT came around in the late 1980s.
Pioneering Bands: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, St. Vitus, and Trouble
Notable Bands: Candlemass, Reverend Bizarre, Grand Magus, Solitude Aeternus, and Count Raven
Doom/Death
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a style of doom emerged that was even slower and even heavier than Traditional Doom was, this style was Doom/Death. It swept the doom scene by storm and soon became the sub-genres new face. It takes the formula of traditional doom metal, slows it down and gives it a more melancholic and dark face, with influences from death metal. The most noticeable influence from death metal is the use of harsh vocals, though more influences can be heard in the early works of many doom/death bands. Due to the death metal influence the early rockier sound that the traditional doom bands does not appear as often in Doom/Death. Many bands incorporate instruments such as violins and pianos to create a more romantic and somber sound.
Pioneering Bands: diSEMBOWELMENT, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Katatonia
Notable Bands: Morgion, Saturnus, Novembers Doom, Thorr’s Hammer, Paramaecium
A Throne Of Souls
Stoner Rock/Stoner Doom
Stoner Rock developed out of early Black Sabbath, most of the bands in the genre claiming it as their major influence. Most notably the song Electric Funeral. Using a proto-doom or traditional doom sound as a base stoner rock bands try to generate a more groovy sound or add in psychadelica elements. Bands tend to stay very true to a jazz sound as well, with many bands incorperating elements of southern rock. Many musicians in the genre tend to have lots of side projects.
Early pioneers: Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Electric Wizard
honerable mention: Orange Monkey, Sleep, Acid King, Burning Witch, Goatsnake
Sludge Metal
Originally created by the Melvins as a mix between grunge, hardcore, and doom metal the grunge influence quickly faded as other bands started to pick up on the trend. Mixing hardcore punk riffing, drumming, and vocals with doom metal tempo with a metal song structure bands where able to create a very slow and crushing sound. Later elements of post-rock and post-hardcore were added into the genre as bands stared to share similar ideology.
Early Pioneers: Melvins, Crowbar, Neurosis
Honerable mentions: Acid Bath, Mastodon, Lair of the Minotaur, Pelican.
mirkwood raven
Funeral Doom:
Funeral Doom evolved directly from Death/Doom. Taking the already slow speed and decreasing it further almost to that of a funeral march, hence the name. The music tends to be very heavy, but with a dreamy and calming sound at the same time. The dreamy being acquired from the heavy use of synths and production
techniques. There are however bands, which do not fit into this category, for example Worship. Who only use pianos instead of synths, and does not have the aforementioned dreamy sound; they instead have a very harsh and heavy sound.
Pioneers of the sub-genre: Thergothon, Skepticism and Funeral (Nor)
Bands worth mentioning: Pantheist, Monolithe, Funerary Dirge, Until Death Overtakes Me and Esoteric.
Drone Doom:
Drone Doom seems to exist to take music, to the farthest reaches of heaviness in terms of speed and the amount of down tuning used on the guitars. There is no melody, to be found within this style. It very often has no set tempo or time signature and just seems to flow through wave after wave of droning chord progressions.
Something, which I find funny about this sub-genre, is the names of the three most iconic bands: Sunn, Moonn and Earth
Pioneers of the sub-genre: Earth
Bands worth mentioning: Sunn, Moonn, Bunkur and Beyond Black Void
Staff:
A Throne Of Souls
mirkwood raven
Dweller Of Rhymes (myself)
Links:
For a history of the doom-subgenre:
http://www.doom-metal.com/history.html
For more "general" information on the doom subgenre:
http://www.doom-metal.com/faq.html
(band website link list to come)
Thanks
mirkwood raven for writing out the drone and funeral doom sections.
A Throne Of Souls for writing out the stoner and sludge doom sections.
Doom-Metal.com for providing general information to help write the definitions alot easier.
A Throne Of Souls
mirkwood raven
Dweller Of Rhymes (myself)
Links:
For a history of the doom-subgenre:
http://www.doom-metal.com/history.html
For more "general" information on the doom subgenre:
http://www.doom-metal.com/faq.html
(band website link list to come)
Thanks
mirkwood raven for writing out the drone and funeral doom sections.
A Throne Of Souls for writing out the stoner and sludge doom sections.
Doom-Metal.com for providing general information to help write the definitions alot easier.
