Doom Metal

Doom metal is a form of heavy metal music that emerged as a recognized sub-genre during the first half of the 1980s. Generally, doom metal features very slow tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much “denser” or “heavier” sound than other metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of dread or impending doom, and often an atmosphere of despair. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Mood

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Nov 23 Monday 23 November 2009 Today
The Atlas Moth/Dark Castle Fall tour at The Falcon Nest The Atlas Moth, Dark Castle	The Falcon Nest Pittsburgh, PA, United States	Add shout
Nov 24 Tuesday 24 November 2009 Tomorrow
The Atlas Moth/Dark Castle Fall tour at Vollrath Tavern The Atlas Moth, Dark Castle	Vollrath Tavern Indianapolis IN, Indianapolis, United States 39.746207 -86.155929	1 person attending Add shout
Nov 25 Wednesday 25 November 2009
3 Inches of Blood Saviours, Holy Grail	RUBBER GLOVES Denton, TX 76205, United States 33.212459 -97.126321	1 person attending Add shout
Nov 28 Saturday 28 November 2009
.	Chain Reaction Anaheim, Ca, Los Angeles, United States 33.832468 -117.939694	1 person attending 1 shout
2 year anniversary of AQUATIC with Boris at The POOL at Harrah's Boris, mario calegari	The POOL at Harrah's Atlantic City, NJ, United States 39.384558 -74.425311	Add shout
Dec 1 Tuesday 1 December 2009
Saviours 3 Inches of Blood	Chain Reaction Anaheim, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.832468 -117.939694	2 people attending Add shout

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Parkiet14 wrote:
Friday evening

Saint Vitus is an awesome Doom Metal band....

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scapino wrote:
Friday afternoon

Old MDB, that is.

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Katorevenge wrote:
8 days ago

Cheers!

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scapino wrote:
10 days ago

For doom in the vein of MDB, check out Paramaecium.

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metal_gimp wrote:
10 days ago

Anathema (early stuff is 'proper' doom, but their later stuff is good too), Paradise Lost and Morgion if you like death-doom in the same-ish vein as MDB. October Tide is good if you like Katatonia's early material. Tiamat's 'Wildhoney' and 'Clouds' are too more mellow (but still excellent) death-doom offerings, especially the former. Cathedral's debut is definitely worth checking out too. If you're into more 'traditional' doom, then St. Vitus, Trouble, Candlemass (<<< gods) and Pentagram (US) are all essential. Not an expert on funeral doom so I'll leave that for another (rainy) day.

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Katorevenge wrote:
13 days ago

Yeah I'm looking to get into this genre of metal. I already listen to a lot of metal already, and I like MDB but are there any other Doom bands I can start with? PM me please

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Jonzo67 wrote:
14 days ago

Hmm, I want to get more into this genre (cautiously though, I don't like music too miserable). I like Katatonia a lot, who else should I check out bearing in mind I'm not a massive heavy metal fan?

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krasherr wrote:
16 days ago

black sabbath - black sabbath from black sabbath is not doom then?

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weed1988 wrote:
last month

Ahab !!!!!!!!!! really good 'doom band'

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HamsterOfHell wrote:
last month

successful troll is successful

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blackless wrote:
last month

Cryptic-Yen, you should get down to listening to Thorr's Hammer.

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Carnassial1 wrote:
last month

Cheers everyone! You can vote for "Doom metal" in "Favorite Heavy metal Sub-genre Poll" on my profile page Carnassial1 It's over 1900 votes now. I'll be glad if you take a shot.

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CRSEvan wrote:
last month

im loving agalloch right now, which of these bands has some good low screaming like that? i need more fall of efrafa type stuff but more epic

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m0rph0x wrote:
last month

"YourSilhouette" bitch best be trollin'

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bassehunter wrote:
last month

When i read the word epic i realised u weren't worth replying to.

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YourSilhouette wrote:
last month

black sabbath is no where near doom shits no where near epic enough

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NihilKhaos wrote:
last month

But it sucks that the top artists on this page are not exactly what I'm looking for...

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NihilKhaos wrote:
last month

I am going to go doom fucking crazy this week.

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blackless wrote:
last month

doom existed even before Black Sabbath.

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CotBayun wrote:
last month

Black Sabbath is the fuck in Heavy metal category. Do not apply Doom tag to the funky bluesy rock'n'rollers who are much older than the Doom genre.

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