Om - Conference of the Birds
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone or Come My Fanatics... (barring that you haven't already heard these albums)
YOB - The Great Cessation
Bongzilla - Amerijuanican

I just want to emphasize the importance of Sleep - Dopesmoker for the noobs. Seriously one of the best doom albums, hard to find anything like it that so perfectly mashes up a lovecraftian sense of dread and sabbathian psychedelia.

^ One of my all-time favorites. Don't think we have anything like that, though. The entire thing is very unique and one of a kind. We've got some Sleep-ish stuff like Om, Ufomammut, Slow Horse, YOB, but nothing that really compares to "Dopesmoker".

Currently playing Kylesa's Static Tension. Amazing stuff, can't believe I've been dismissing the band for quite sometime. What the hell did I think?

Eh, I've never been a huge fan of Dopesmoker. Maybe if it had riffs that didn't rely completely on tone worship (I like tone worship, but it's not done incredibly well here).

Also, kind of late to the discussion but Horn of the Rhino kick ass. The vocalist is a sexy grungy beast.

I'm kind of surprised this song never came up during any of the discussions I've witnessed regarding psychedelic metal or metal related to drugs. I present, Saint Vitus - Just Another Notch off the album Die Healing, which I've never listened but just might now that I've heard this song. Grungy riffs and upbeat (for Saint Vitus) drumming provide the solid backbone for this song, on top of which rests the very emotional vocals (if it is indeed Wino singing, I'm not sure). I don't see how any Vitus fan could be disappointed by this song, and I also think it might even appeal to people who didn't care for the first three albums.

If you happen to venture further into their discog, namely Spiral shadow a quick warning: They mightily stripped down on the sludgeiness in favor of catchiness and more traditional song's. Now, IMO that's not a bad thing at all, as I love the afformentioned album, but...just letting you know.

Great band, and goddamm do they put on a hell of a live show. (It does help that Laura is incredibly sexy in the way she handles her guitar on stage )

It's actually the guitarist Dave Chandler singing, Scott Reagers sings on the other tracks. Another emotional performance from Chandler was on "When Emotion Dies" off V, although that songs seems to divide the fans. Maybe it's the female backing vocals?
And definitely check out Die Healing as it is a great album. My favorite cut is "In the Asylum". Such a great tale about insanity. The surreal music and deranged vocal performance by Reagers matches it perfectly.

Not done incredibly well? Clown.

Recently I was sort of recommended Pentagram, but for several reasons I never got to ask the person where he'd recommend me to start. From what I've read about the band it sounds like it's something I potentially could like, so my question is quite simple: What album(s) should I begin with?

I usually start with the first album when I check a band.

If it's a big-name band, I go to their M-A page and check out the albums with an average rating over 60%. And then I go in order.

Relentless and Day of Reckoning. Another good one to get is First Days Here, which is a compilation of demos and singles they did in the 70s. I don't like that era of the band as much as the 80s era, but there are still some good songs there none the less.

I would normally check out the ones with the highest score. Even if it's like a 1 point difference.

Can you guys recommend me some sludge with amazing clean vocals? Something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjYTg01gjng and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qLY4KHCYE

Rorcal - Heliogabalus

Man, this album is the most fucking heavy thing ever, and I've heard LOTS of heavy things. Listening to this album makes me feel weird in a way that no other music can do. And it's fucking awesome, I mean it's a 70 minute album with just one song and that one song actually feels like a song and not just a clusterfuck of ideas. I LOVE IT. And they're also going to release a new album early next year, with a preview song already up which I am too lazy to search for right now. It will be amazing.

Thank you! I'll give them a listen.


Yes, that is of course a good place to begin. But I also like to hear the albums that are the best examples of a band's style, and then work my way through their discography and hear the evolution or changes (if there are any).

Could anyone recommend me some kinda spacey death/doom like Seidr or any sludge like this Thou song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TK0gWRz64U

Thanks!

try Sea of Bones and Rorcal. And Woebegone Obscured, and Asunder and maybe, for a more shoegaze approach, Ocean of Ghosts.

Two new tracks from the upcoming album by The Wizar'd!

Ancient Tome of Arcane Knowledge

The Moss that Grew on the Sorcerer's Grave

Both sound killer! I loved their last effort, Pathways into Darkness, so I'm quite excited for this. It's completely mixed and mastered as of a few days ago, too.

Relentless is definitely their best as far as non-70s material, but please please please for your own sake do NOT sleep on Be Forewarned. I ignored that one for awhile because of the release date and a few song titles that worried me. I was a fool, and I think its EASILY better than Day of Reckoning. Be Forewarned has those amazing Iommi-esque riffs but there's this really dramatic quality to the whole album. Top-tier doom without a doubt.

Thanks! I'll check those out. Actually, I think I've heard a bit of stuff from Asunder and they were exactly the style I was looking for.

Looking for a band similar to Acid Witch and Hooded Menace, BUT using clean vocals.

Start with The Clarion Call; imo, you can skip their split with Like Flies etc...

Thanks, I'll give that album a listen when I get the chance.

Yes, I'm actually bumping myself..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpREOTVyWL0
Sorry for the obvious rec. I just happen to be listening to this right now.

Check out Centurions Ghost, cool band. Not clean vocals that much, but I wanted share this band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsoQlyGD_2M

Centurions Ghost is pretty good, though not exacly what I am looking for.. Glad you recommended them anyway!

Check out Cough's album Ritual Abuse. He's got the whole scream/clean/scream/clean thing going on, which I'm normally not a huge fan of but this is warranted. The cleans soar and are amazing, totally worth waiting for haha.

Anybody got any Lovecraft themed traditional or epic doom? I've come across a few but the only "Lovecraftian" doom band I really liked was a Funeral Doom band named Fungoid Stream.
yeah I could use the search thingy on the archives but I don't wanna listen to every damn band till I find something worth listening to frequently.
Sooo yeah. Any help would be appreciated

Cough is pretty cool because I'm getting a Electric Wizard vibe from them. I do think that the vocalist is trying a little to hard to imitate Jus Oborn's vocals style, and it gets a little annoying after prolonged exposure. His harsh vocals are pretty good though.

I definitely prefer Holy Mountain to Dopesmoker, but I do like it.

And Horn Of The Rhino are amazing. I found them by chance on youtube in the related videos of a prog rock band. I'm surprised they're not very well know yet.



I've been enjoying Call Of The Wretched Sea lately, while in the past I've tried funeral doom and hated it, but time moves on and tastes change and progress and it's time for another try, I think. Where should I go from here?

How about epic doom like scald, and Proto doom like ghost

He asked for funeral doom, dude...And Ghost isn't proto doom. Proto doom must be something before Sabbath, stuff like Blue Cheer perhaps. Ghost isn't even doom to be honest.

My favs funeral doom bands: Esoteric, Skepticism, Mournful Congregation, not a big fan of the genre though.

While we're talking about funeral doom, check out Abstract Spirit's Tragedy and Weeds. Really great stuff with cool weird stuff like New Orleans brass. Fungoid Stream are also really cool. I like Lordamor, but they're kind of a mix of funeral and that whole "torture" doom thing.

Or rather doomy hard rock/metal that was recorded before the genre of doom metal was established in the 1980's?

Also this, I guess, Sabbath was pretty much alone till the 80s.

Pentagram and Bedemon would be the obvious answers.

Pentagram - Forever My Queen
Bedemon - Child of Darkness

A couple not so obvious answers that aren't on the archives would be Antonius Rex's album Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex from 1974 (this album is doom metal, all their other albums are progressive rock), and Icecross.

Antonius Rex - In Hoc Signo Vinces
Icecross - 1999

Nobody asked for these recommendations though. I'm gonna check out Antonius Rex, looks cool!