Colosseum


Shape of Despair (though they're not quite as prominent)

Here's one with a violin.

TheUnhinged: Colosseum I know well ,

Shape of Despair also know them very well , the second album is one of my favorites , they have a lot of violins and cellos on the backgrounds on that one

WilyTank: I know funeral the band , dont like much.

androdion: yes that was I was looking for , a funeral band with a full time violinist.


I really thought someone might have thought of something like that since violins and cellos can be great atmosphere , damn!

Yeah, that's what I thought you'd be after. As far as I know such a thing doesn't exist. But maybe someone already came up with such a band, somewhere, and I wasn't informed.

Anything similar to Black Spring Monolith?

If that's too vague, let me try to explain what I like about it: There's the "catchy" element. It's kinda hard to find catchy doom metal, I guess. Then there's the fact that it's not actually that slow paced as most of death doom bands, it's what? Mid paced I believe. The memorability is also a big plus, I can enjoy the song as it progresses even with a low attention spam (if that makes any sense) And last but not least there's the melodic element. The songs are not raw, but have lots of melodic elements on it.

So any recs on that line?

Does anybody know any funeral doom/death or death/doom bands that are a lot like band Remembrance? I want bands that have a guy and female like they do.

Beating Zelkiiro to the essential recommendation for The Slow Death.



Funeral basically started the concept of extreme doom with female vocals, and it's done extremely well.



Remembrance seems to take a lot of their influence from Shape of Despair, and though the band's use of female vocals aren't as predominate, they're definitely similar and worth mentioning.



If you want to go into the harsher end of death/doom metal with female vocals, I'd recommend you try Paradigma, Black Lodge, and Unholy's final album, Gracefallen.

YOU MONSTER.

I pretty much never visit this thread, and I only skimmed this page and the last one to see if this band has been brought up, so forgive me if this is recent discussion.

I want to talk about the band Tristitia. This is a band I discovered over a decade ago, while they were still active. I discovered them, like I discovered so many doom bands back then, by browsing doom-metal.com's band list and checking out bands whose names caught my eye. Tristitia was one of them. When I listened to the sound sample provided on doom-metal.com, I was entranced. Not only by the music, but especially by the vocals. The song was Christianic Indulgence from their second album Crucidiction. My days of browsing doom-metal.com was actually a lot of my first exposure to underground metal, so I was not used to these vocals, which were basically mixing low baritone cleans with back metal rasps. But I loved it. So over the next couple or so years I acquired all four of their non-demo albums. But to be completely honest with you, I didn't listen to them much.

Today, I went through those four albums to see if I would be interested in selling any of them, so I listened to them back-to-back, in chronological order. I was surprised by how much I still liked the first two, One With Darkness and Crucidiction. The vocals didn't entrance as much as they did in my early doom metal days, but I still enjoyed them. However, I think I actually enjoyed the music more today than I used to. Metal Archives describes their genre as "blackened doom metal," But I think changing it to "blackened gothic/doom metal" would be more appropriate, at least for the first two albums, because of the baritone vocals, prominent use of keys, and uses of strings, and just a generally mournful tone.

Other than the above qualities, one feature of this band that always stood out to me were the guitar harmonies. Some of the riffing guitar harmonies remind me of early Trouble (!), while the lead guitar harmonies are beautiful and mournful. There's a couple passages throughout the first two albums with death metal-like drumming. There's also some nice use of classical styled guitar. Here are a couple songs from these two albums:

Tristitia - Reminiscences of the Mourner


Tristitia - Christianic Indulgence


Their third album, The last Grief, saw a change in vocalists, and a slightly less focus on the keys. This made it seem less gothic, and maybe bordering on epic doom at times. There's also a couple times where there's death metal-like drumming, and even an instrumental with death metal riffing! It was still decent, but not as good as the first two albums. Here is a song from that album:

Tristitia - Darknia: The Last Grief


Their fourth and so far final album, Garden of Darkness, sees another change in vocalists. This time the vocalist is exclusively a death growler, so I think this album pretty much qualifies as death doom. It also has some musically death metally passages. In my opinion, this is their worst album. Not very good.

Anyway, like I said, I pretty much never visit this thread. That is because years ago, my interest in traditional doom completely eclipsed my interest in death doom and funeral doom, and I paid virtually no attention to either of the two latter genres except for new My Dying Bride releases. I usually lurk the doom/stoner/sludge thread instead. I actually wanted to share Tristitia in that thread, but felt they were more on topic and probably more likely to be well received here in the death/doom and funeral doom thread. I would like the opinions of people in this thread if you think by the links I provided above, or your general knowledge of the band, if you have any is Tristitia on topic enough for the doom/stoner/sludge thread?

Hi, I'm looking for melodic death-doom bands with gothic touches and some atmosphere in the veins of Swallow The Sun, Touch Of Eternity and Saturnus, preferably with some use of violins, and most importantly a very emotional/poignant feel.
Not too slow or perhaps a little faster paced than usual doom, with a mixture of clean and growled male vocals. Catchy melodies in the almost cheesy way that Katatonia, Swallow The Sun and Saturnus seem to do it.
I know it's quite specific and might be a tall order, but my music tastes are becoming rather fickle, so sorry about that. Thanks

for me , early Lacrimas Profundere cannot and will never be beaten in that style , the first three albums are perfect , dont listen past burning a wish. Early Anathema is refered all the time but for me it doesnt cut it , Lacrimas had a particular style , a little more gothic , and melancholic. I´m yet to find anything very similar to them. And you always have My Dying Bride but you probably know them.

Yes I was hoping for some kind of Skepticism with cellos or something low in the background eheh.. too bad. Would be great. Only noticed now we are from the same country , so greetings! thanks for the recommendations!

Hmm... Not quite a violin but I remember encountering a funeral doom band which employed cello as an integral part of their sound but the name escapes me. One of their albums had a near long song and it was quite excellent. I'll keep thinking about that one!

Also, there's this band. Not amazing but quite interesting and including cellos and other unusual instruments.

https://narrowhouse.bandcamp.com/album/thanathonaut

Edit: Got it! The band I was thinking of is Asunder from the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpKJy6P32ww

Are you thinking of Asunder?

Indeed I was! Thanks. Their name cropped up when I googled funeral doom cello as well. Great band!

yes I mentioned violins but cellos are even better! I think they probably marry very well with funeral! going to check them out , thanks a lot!!

Can you recommend me funeral doom with traditional black metal vocals? I'm digging the whole funeral doom formula, but the guttural mumbling is really turning me off.

Maybe Nortt or especially Elysian Blaze.

Thank you, but I'm not impressed with Nortt, to be honest. Underwhelming ambient music with too much electronic shit thrown in.

Good vocals, though.

You might want to try Wraith of the Rope's "Ada" off Total Rust Records. It has a decent funeral doom feel to it, but also has a fair Goblin feel to it as well. I have mixed feelings to it as it to me was just horror metal, the doom metal aspect of it seemed almost obligatory.

Been listening to God Forsaken's Dismal Gleams of Desolation lately and it's pretty cool. Some songs on the album are typical early 90's ''mournful'' doom/death while plenty of other tracks feature more groove. The latter makes me think of what Paradise Lost's Shades of God could have sounded like hadn't it abandoned the death metal vocals.

I have been searching for some funeral doom with a ritualistic feel to it. Stuff in the same as Blood of the Black Owl. But not blackened. Also no vocals. Any recommendations of the sort?

That's a bit tough, I've always thought of Blood of the Black Owl to having a sort of "Shamanistic" feel to it. When I think "ritual" I think of a fair amount of dark ambient, neo-classical bands/projects on the Cold Meat Industry label except they are not metal, even some of the acts of the Projekt label, which is mostly ethereal, goth, and ambient music to have a ritual feel to it. Also from a technical aspect, in funeral doom bands who are using drum machines and really keeping it at a very slow pace it, perhaps unintentionally, has a "ritual" feel to it.

I gave a quick glance over some CDs I have, but what comes to mind at the moment would be Amort's contribution to the split with Ives (not funeral doom), but even Amort's track "In Bed With Decay" is quite as funeral doom as previous output. It's about 14 minutes that is mostly dark ambient, but the slow riff that is played sparsely throughout the track barely puts it into the funeral realm. There are vocals, growled ones, but very minimal. One strange thing about the track is the use of horns / wind instruments, it sounds almost like a saxophone, but DON'T expect any kind of jazz fusion or anything like that. It's more like they are blown with full air and with no real attempt to hit a note, so it sounds like a painful wail. It's quite a bizarre effect.

I may have to do some more listening, but that is what comes to might right off.

Maybe Nest's cover of The Gallant Crow?



Speaking of which, Skepticism has a few songs that have a ritualistic feel that definitely isn't blackened, though you might already know that. It's a little difficult to think of something that you're looking for with zero vocals, though. Nonetheless, the song below is probably Skepticism's most ritualistic song, in my opinion.

I'm looking for some death/doom that is FIRMLY rooted in the death metal side of things. Think along the lines of Vainaja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTHaH3TgHQ, Stomach Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3XkLGh-23g, Fuoco Fatuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yXUq1Q14pw and Famishgod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDtG7LOArEfor some newer bands, or Rippikoulu's demo or early Cianide for a couple of older examples. Early Asphyx works too. Doomy death metal would work as well. I'm aware this has been asked before, but I've sort of exhausted most of the well-known bands that play this sort of death/doom so am familiar with most of the recs previously mentioned in this thread.

I'd also absolutely love to hear something similar to Swallowed's latest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFTOOfLSRzQ or something like Process of Guilt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95A-4skjBe0

Although I reckon Stomach Earth has been in existence long before Doomed, the death doom one-man band from Germany, the latter put out a first album before Stomach Earth actually did. The similarities in sound, voice, moods are striking and my preference goes to Doomed.

Not funeral doom (but I don't classify BOTBO as FD either), but Dolorian definitely convey that shamanic, otherwordly tribal feel you're after. They're Black Doom though.

I'd like to drop this in here.



I really dig the first main riff on this. This whole album is really good, though it's not all funeral doom.

@Morphine: Thanks for the rec but I'm already familiar with Germany's Doomed. I actually prefer Stomach Earth to them but they're not bad at all.

Not bad at all, I may look into this project more. Thanks for sharing.

I'm looking for some peaceville style death/doom in the vein of mid-era My Dying Bride: crushingly heavy riffs, really dark atmosphere and weepy melodic stuff in great balance.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXsc_lQH9rU

Most similar bands are far too heavy on the weepy, wistful stuff. It should be driven by heavy riffs or really sinister atmosphere, with some scarce melodic parts like the chorus here.

Thanks!

I thought of this because it has just been released: Lachrimatory's Transient is old-school sounding death doom adorned with very melodic cello lines. I think it might be what you're after.
Other than that, there're many bands that could do the trick as well, off the top of my head, Stone Wings, Revelations of Rain, Ahab, Desire, Fall of Empyrean etc...

Hey all, need some recommendations.


Looking for some death doom somewhat like a really slowed down Grave or Bloodbath. Old school swedish death metal but really slow and groovy.

It seems like all of the death/doom I find is too far toward the 'moody' side of things, with gothic and/or sorrowful undertones.


Minor key, riff-based, slow doom with growled vocals basically.

Freshcrawl's debut Descend Into Absurd might be something you like

dayyanum: Something like Cianide? Also check out this band I did some vocals for: http://gloamingdoom.bandcamp.com/


Thanks for the suggestions, but none of those worked for me. Too saccharine and not enough heavy menacing riffs, or dark atmosphere. Desire had some, but not enough, and unfortunately I didn't quite like them otherwise. Lachrimatory was the best out of them.

Cianide is waaaay too fast, that's basically just death metal. Gloaming was pretty rad but not necessarily what I'm going for.


The beginning of this song by Nile is somewhat of a good fit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lta-5A7TUmE

And this for the tempo and riffy headbanginess of the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84762UVKSg


Basically slow, groovy death metal. Not quite funeral doom slow, but getting there.

Ok...
If we stick to the idea of the so-called "Peaceville sound", there's the UK band The Drowning. Still a bit weepy, but it also shows a raw edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAkaKdMb50
and maybe the Irish Graveyard Dirt... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEWFMNUfL3c

That's to get rid of that scene because, in fact, I guess you won't find any of these two sinister enough!

If that's the case, maybe give a try to Woebegone Obscured, raw, melodic, crushing, can be rather convoluted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwZtPQP6vUw
Ophis also play brutal yet melodic death doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvFyvkwb89M
Dusk can be recommended too in the primitive, old-school (early 90's) sinister vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQmCBP4FRE

Two recs:
The rather groovy Hooded Menace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18C6qRYcjo

Then, the darker Runemagick (still the shadow of a groove in there, imo!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcmBVvedz2I

Thanks! I will check out those tomorrow. I guess that juxtaposition of beauty, crushing darkness and energetic but suffocating riffing is more important than the Peaceville style, as much as I like those mournful leads.

ok I've asked this question 3 times this week but I guess I finally found the right place to ask: if I were to get one Runemagick album, which would you suggest?