As for AIC similar sounding stuff.

looking for more doom metal bands with "dramatic", Reverend Bizarre-style vocals, and preferably very slow (not a requirement... mid-tempo or just normal-slow stuff is fine if it has the vocal style i mentioned, but i do prefer ridiculously slow doom with clean vocals)
something along the lines of:

Pilgrim
Moss (namely their "Horrible Night" album, the only Moss album with clean vox)
Horse Latitudes
Obsidian Sea
Sevenchurch
Serpent Warning
The Puritan (or any other project with vox by Albert Witchfinder)

The Doomsday Cult
Gallow God
Temple of Pain
Oak (from Sweden)

slow and dramatic they are...

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Hello all, I'm looking for any doom/sludge/stoner bands that have the Swedish Death Metal distortion sound. Morgion is the only band I know of with this tone and it sounds amazing!

So, here is a weird request. I am looking to hear bands that mix drone metal and regular doom metal. Instead of bands like Sunn O))) who play full-on drone, I want bands that play (traditional or stoner) doom metal with drone passages. While I love bands like Burning Witch and Khanate, they are not what I have in mind. I'm trying to avoid bands that are extreme, overtly harsh, or ugly sounding. Essentially, I want clean sung droning doom.






P.S. I do enjoy the band Messa, but I'm looking more for bands who mix drone and doom metal together, as opposed to having doom metal songs and drone metal songs separate.

^Hey Unhinged, how about these:

Boris; They have plenty of albums varying from weird poppy stuff to drone/doom feedback abuse.

Torche; Perhaps the most accessible sludge/stoner-whatever band I know, shit gets fucking pop-punk level 'happy'.

Rwake; Heavy as fuck maybe somewhat harsh/brutal too from what I've heard but they are worth a shot.

Ortega; Haven't heard these guys yet but they sound like a mix Neurosis, Sunn O))), My Dying Bride plus some other bands I don't remember atm according to Angry Metal Guy, thought I'd plug 'em anyway.

5ive; Described as melodic doom/sludge/drone here on the archives, I think they'll fit your criteria. There is also a cringeworthy 90s boy band of the same name so you might have to use a couple of extra tags in the search bar.

Funny you mention Sunn O))), Burning Witch and Khanate, but what about their side-project with Lee Dorrian? It's not extreme, overtly harsh or ugly sounding, it's essentially droning doom metal.

Maybe Troglodyte Dawn?
https://troglodytedawn.bandcamp.com/

I can see three bands that might be to your liking:
Bloody Panda : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDox_P9C-q4
Dark Buddah Rising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6sggjAimdU
Menace Ruine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XpL0LwYC0s

New song from Cold Embrace's forthcoming album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkLhmlObKyM

I didn't really like the compilation he put out last year, but I dig this song. Good riffs, good keys, and good guitar solo.

Im looking something very similar to any or both of these songs

Reverend Bizarre seems obvious. Lord Vicar's leader was RevBiz bassist if I'mnot mistaken. Soundwise, it's very similar.
Then, some Apostle of Solitude might be worth checking out, although I'mnot a 100% fan, some excellent highs and quite a bunch of dull lows...

Peter Vicar was Reverend Bizarre's guitarist. Albert Witchfinder handled bass as well as vocals.

Any help for a clueless doom newbie like me?
I'd like some raw, lo-fi, straight up doom (and perhaps some stoner?) metal with highly dense, atmospheric melodies and insane vocals like Heretic Rites here:
https://hereticrites.bandcamp.com/album/in-satans-claws

Feel free to rec highly obvious choices and classics from previous decades (except Black Sabbath obviously), just a few will do. All I know is Pentagram's debut, which is kinda similar to this, and some Electric Wizard (Dopethrone and Black Masses, specifically) but they've never impressed me personally; this shit is much more lively compared to them.

Thinking of these, raw unadorned doom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVMqp2lPOGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Gu7OCGV2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IIJxKMjeBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUYhFbNAao

I dunno, barring Atomic Rites, none of them really came close to the insane, atmospheric noisiness that characterised Heretic Rites here.

Try Satan's Satyrs and Alucarda. And maybe The Death Wheelers if you don't mind instrumental music.

MMh, ok, then what about Obskure Torture? It's more on the Black metal side though, at least in spirit. The voice is a raspy gurgle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I1RyAW5Edg

But another one more along the line of your request would be Salomon Kane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4_6ieTxlM

And Fenriz making a doom album?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd6lXvnPL9w

Yung Druid, a 4 piece, 70's inspired Stoner rock band based in London.

All 4 tracks from the demo are available at the Soundcloud link below. For fans of Sabbath, Zeppelin, Sleep and Pentagram etc

https://soundcloud.com/yungdruidband/sets

I find it very hard to bump into bands like Warning, 40 Watt Sunn, Pallbearer. Bands with exceptional vocals, melodic/dramatic riffing and goosebumps inducing in general.

I don't know about the goose pumps (I'mnot completely won over by 40 Watt Sun); but to your list of Warning -inspired bands, I'd add Unsilence, the now defunct Marble Chariot and Cross Vault. More, I don't see any...

The vocals are far more tortured and aggressive, but if you like some of those bands ^ you may enjoy The Gault.

Thank you so much, but sadly, no success.

I'm in a mood to listen to some Doom/Stoner/Sludge Metal. I like Sourvein, Weedeater, and Eyehategod. Any recommendations that are similar to these bands would be great. Thanks.

Lumbar - The First And Last Days Of Unwelcome
Church Of Misery - Houses Of The Unholy

Hmm... well they're more gothic than doom, but do you know Virgin Black? If you want mournful, elegant, majestic music... this is some good stuff IMO.



And if you like doom/death, you might enjoy later Morgion and Hamferd though those are pretty well-known so you may already be familiar.

Will check.

Hi guys.
These fucking celebrations for Christmas and New Year's Eve have taken me back to a 100% doom mood after years.
The works I've always come back to from time to time are "The Cry of Mankind"; the entire "The Great Cold Distance" - Katatonia; "Stones from the sky" - Neurosis; "Noir" and "Christ Goodbye" - Saturnus; "A Dying Wish" - Anathema; Shape of Despair albums.
I guess I've lost a lot of good music in the while, could you suggest me any good band/album?
Generally speaking, I prefer something melodic with a clear voice (or none at all) to funeral rythmes and growl.
Could you help me out? Thank you very much.

I am really enjoying https://musicalexcrements.bandcamp.com/album/antithesis It's the new album from Deha under his Yhdarl side. It is just under 5 hours and is amazing Funeral Doom with Drone elements.

If you are looking for Death/Doom ala The Chasm, Anathema, and Magus

Check out Tideless

https://tideless.bandcamp.com/releases

I'm looking for some quality stoner/doom metal releases from the last couple of years. It has been some time since I have actively searched for bands like this, so I'm kinda out of the loop considering any possible quality releases. I'm specifically looking for slow burners. Long songs, laid back song structures and long instrumental sections. Samsara Blues Experiment's latest album Waiting for the Flood is probably the best example of what I'm looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5inyVlvaak0

^Toner Low sounds right up your alley, I've been really enjoying them lately: https://tonerlow.bandcamp.com/album/ii

I don't hear any doom in that album, it's stoner rock to my ears. Well, when I feel like listening to laid-back stoner rock, cool but still catchy, I go grab a cd of Greenleaf. There's also Hypnos 69 which is great too, they have a more vintage sound. THe now defunct Dutch band Sungrazer is very recommendable too in the same cool, subdued stoner.

For a tad doomier stoner, maybe Sleestack is worth checking out.

Anyone who knows anything that sounds something like this? Especially if you know a vocalist sounding like this..

Skip 'round this album partner. I'll be damned if this ain't what ya lookin' for.

^ That's really nice, thanks for the rec! Great youtube channel as well. Seems like I'll be busy for a while.

To those of you above who recommended me drone doom stuff with clean vocals, just wanted to say I appreciate ya!

Here are a few bands I've been digging lately.

Aural Hex play some intense, psychedelic post-doom stuff that reminds me a lot of Neurosis. I love the atmosphere and the eerie vibe of the clean guitars. To me, they create the same kind of calm, yet unsettling, ambiance that Dolorian did on their self-titled album.



Rezn take the whole "psychedelic doom" tag to a more straightforward route, meeting somewhere between Electric Wizard and Alice in Chains, though with a more atmospheric touch with the sleepy sound quality and ethereal vocals. It's significantly more haunting to me than the strictly riff-based stoner/doom that one can find.



King Woman seem to be kind of a love-it-or-hate-it kind of band. They blend doom metal and shoegaze with ethereal female vocals, and it has been getting a lot of hype as well as a lot of hate. I think their new album, Created in the Image of Suffering, is pretty damn cool. The mixture of depressive female cleans over raw guitar chords reminds me of the band The River, who I used to absolutely love.

Yeah, Electric Moon are about as far as I go into that territory, but they're great.
Nice thing about that channel is he usually posts some description on the sound and is really consistent in quality and keeping up with regular posts. Good luck.

Just recently getting into Toner Low - which I find strangely relaxing while studying.

Digging the harsh / guttural vocals and the relentless droning groove. Plus 'dat bass...

More bands like this?