SharkTooth: "The Depths ov DOOM" Tournament Preliminary

SharkTooth 06.05.15	The Depths of Doom Tournament is for anyone who’s into acquiring the taste for relatively unknown doom metal albums. To participate users must suggest a doom metal album with less than 30 ratings that they think is a classic by posting it on the comments along with where it can be streamed and a short blurb on why it's so fantastic. Slots that haven't been filled will instead have Dean Blunt-Black Metal on them. Before we start here are some rules: 1.The focus of this competition is doom metal, the albums can be fusion genres like stoner-doom, death-doom, black-doom, etc. but the emphasis must be placed on the doom. 2.If you have suggested an album, you have to participate in all of the matches. Don't be a dick who only dicides to only show up when his album is involved. 3.Albums must have under 30 ratings when being nominated 4.You must hear both before voting for any match 5.Alt accounts are not permitted and those responsible will be shot on sight I'll gladly answer any and all questions
mryrtmrnfoxxxy 06.05.15	bfg9000
Flugmorph 06.05.15	my favourite genre!
SharkTooth 06.05.15	on second thought I probably should've put the Doom soundtrack for the blank ones
TheSpirit 06.05.15	nice... can we start putting albums down now? If so, Arcana Coelestia - Le mirage de l’idéal "Duskfall" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4gbo_xrgNI most beautiful funeral doom you'll ever hear
Flugmorph 06.05.15	i'll give you Corrections House - Last City Zero (25Votes) this is an really interesting album as it combines industrial elements with a big slap of doom, psychedelic, experimental, noise and sludge. (scott kelly from neurosis on vocals and guitar). its a (near) classic for me. only thing that holds me down to rank it higher is that i doesn't know it that well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNrCyVJCuQ
SharkTooth 06.05.15	added both to the list
TheSpirit 06.05.15	i added a link to a song as well.
Flugmorph 06.05.15	nice, thx mane.
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@TheSpirit the question is if the entire album streamable, we don't need the link right now, but when the round with your album comes it really will matter @Flug no prob
Flugmorph 06.05.15	so how does the contest work
emester 06.05.15	Had the same album in mind spirit. Haha In that case I'll just go with Runemagick - Enter The Realm of Death. Stellar death-doom that sounds more badass than somber. May lean a bit on the may lean a bit on the death metal side but I think theres enough doom to do the job
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@Flugmorph the contest will start once all the blank spaces have been filled, then every 2 days there will be a match between 2 albums where users will vote on which they think is superior, the winner will then go on to the next round and so on until we have a winner
Flugmorph 06.05.15	this is such a marvelous idea
JasonCarne 06.05.15	Dark Millennium - Ashore the Celestial Burden An absolute doom/death classic for all of the reasons listed in my review of the record. Dream Death - Journey Into Mystery One of the only ever successful doom/thrash hyrbid records ever, the mid-paced thrashy riffs make the doom passages so much more crushing when the speed shifts. Paramaecium - Exhumed of the Earth HUGE, groovy, heavy riffs, and oddly enough, Christian. Possibly the second best death/doom record after my first nomination. Morgion - Solinari Very dark, ominous doom with both harsh and clean vocals that has the atmosphere of a black album, but plods along through some eerie and hauntingly beautiful tunes. Desire - Infinity... A Timeless Journey More doom with black metal influences and aesthetics - very melodic and beautiful while managing to be rather foreboding and dark. The Foreshadowing - Days of Nothing The modern day 90's Katatonia with killer production and excellent songwriting. Dolorian - Voidwards One of the most sinister sounding albums ever made, this is evil sounding stuff that is extremely slow and hypnotic. It doesn't quite cross into the realm of funeral doom, but it's definitely not going anywhere in a hurry.
SCREAM! 06.05.15	Old Witch - Come Mourning Come A perfect fusion of the monolithic heavyness of sludge/doom with the hateful venom of black metal https://oldwitch.bandcamp.com/
SCREAM! 06.05.15	let's see if I can win 2 in a row ;)
Flugmorph 06.05.15	btw. i updated my "writeup" on my album, so pls update it on your list bro. i know how much effort it needs to run such lists btw ;)
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@flugmorph thanks, but all credit goes to Friday13th for the idea @JasonCarne you can only choose one album, sorry dude
JasonCarne 06.05.15	Oh damn, I'm guessing we're only supposed to pick one album. In that case, roll with my first one.
DominionMM1 06.05.15	fister- gemini it's just a malevolent fucking record https://fister.bandcamp.com/album/gemini
SharkTooth 06.05.15	14 more to go guys!
SharkTooth 06.05.15	damn didn't see you earlier SCREAM
Flugmorph 06.05.15	fuck. had a writing mistake. thing not think. sry bro i'll update my stuff again and you can copy it (last time i swear :D
Friday13th 06.05.15	DOOM yeah! I'll have to give this some thought. Quick question: does proto-doom count? Like if it's Sabbath level from the 70s can we go there?
SharkTooth 06.05.15	As long as it's identifiably doom it works m/
SharkTooth 06.05.15	aka yes
Friday13th 06.05.15	lol cool I probs won't find anything that old but it's good to know
SCREAM! 06.05.15	Also, it's your choice how long you want to make this but keep in mind how long discovery took with only 16 albums before you lock yourself in with 20
Flugmorph 06.05.15	takes about 40+ days lol
Gameofmetal 06.05.15	I'm a doom newb but I happen to have an entry on hand. The Slow Death - Ark Monolithic funeral doom/death with one tear inducing melody after another. The contrasting guttural death growls and soaring female clean vocals are the perfect icing on this very long but very worthwhile cake.
Keyblade 06.05.15	Eternal Sorrow - The Way of Regret really dark death/doom with heavy use of keyboard synths and occasional female vocals. The Twilight of Life especially is such a great song
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@SCREAM Will keep that in mind, but if things do get too long there's always the double/triple elimination round
Keyblade 06.05.15	oh an album that you consider a classic. in that case, Funeral's Tragedies is a funeral doom classic, and only has 26 votes, so that one. laid the groundwork basically for modern funeral doom, but is unique in that the lead vocals are operatic female vox alongside guttural growls which also made its mark on the gothic scene with the whole beauty and beast vocal stylings
SharkTooth 06.05.15	done
emester 06.05.15	Sorry bout this but I want to change my entry. Would like to change my entry to Colosseum (FIN) - Chapter I: Delirium. This funeral doom record is absolutely colossal blending the beautiful, the crushing and a suffocating sense of dread to create a fantastic end product
SharkTooth 06.05.15	you can change it all you like before the competition starts, I'm not busy
SharkTooth 06.05.15	In other news: we are halfway there
Hyperion1001 06.05.15	asunder - a clarion call organic, disengaged death/doom from the depths of some unknowable void. crawling riffs and eerie atmospherics make for a borderline funeral doom album that is dynamic but still filled with crumbling despair and esoteric despondency.
MoosechriS 06.05.15	black demon rites - motmanniskan Come my fanatics era electric wizard worship with a nasty blackened sludgy feel to things.
SharkTooth 06.05.15	added both
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	Black Shape of Nexus - Negative Black BSoN are a German group who play a hybrid style of music that combines Drone, Doom and elements of Sludge. They began their career as a pure Drone/Ambient project and recorded two albums that sound like Sunn O))). Their 3rd album was entirely different. They decided to keep the drone effect and use it within the logical structure of a "normal" song. It sounds like if Sunn O))) made a dark ambient album filled with enormous drumming, monstrous grooves and minimalism. The riffs are quite spectacular, simple and powerful and the vocals sound terrifying. A relentless album to say the least. Highly recommended.
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	how many albums can we suggest ?
SCREAM! 06.05.15	"dark ambient album filled with enormous drumming, monstrous grooves" grooves in ambient? wha?
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@rockandmetaljunkie one per user
Balerion 06.05.15	Dolorian - Voidwards Psychedelic Doom Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppsd7IEtbNg
manosg 06.05.15	Paramaecium - Within the Ancient Forest Solid stab of death/doom with clean male vocals, growls, awesome female/operatic passages and classical instruments such as harpsichord and cello. Highly atmospheric and representative of the era it was released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6KGN8CVFI&list=PLUGsMSrl5cjRFORxN_Yrf4H7tOnNXhlXS&index=1
Balerion 06.05.15	@shark you talking to me?
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	shit, I had already made a list of at least 5 albums that I would recommend. Can I at least post them and share my opinion with the rest of the users ? I know I can write reviews for each one of them, but a soundoff is always a quick and safe solution.
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@Balerion yeah but I deleted that post when I realized you wrote "psychedelic doom nightmare" as the blurb (that was dumb of me)
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@Rockandmetaljunkie yeah you can, but none of them are going to be added to the competition with that said you are free to change your album at any time before the first match starts
Friday13th 06.05.15	Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall Imagine Queensryche turns to God and goes DOOM. Not only is this a landmark in progressive doom metal, it boasts the first Christian metal epic "The Chronicle of the Seven Seals." Lyrically, no one escapes unscathed from the declarations of doom, including Jesus, fools, mankind, and of course...SATAN!
Balerion 06.05.15	^lol Shark good idea starting the Doom Tourney up next, I'm excited for this one, and now I have a bunch of great new doom to check out
manosg 06.05.15	Great pick Friday, album rules.
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@Balerion thanks, I might need that luck Anyway we're down to the final 4 spots, so if anyone has been planning which album they were going to nominate they'd better make it quick 'cause I'm not adding any more after this list has been filled
Friday13th 06.05.15	Thanks manosg! I almost picked Material Sanctuary because it's probably doomier, but Fall has much better hooks. BTW I've had your pick on my listening list for a while.
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	I'm not changing my pick, it's prob the best I have to offer. "none of them are going to be added to the competition" ok ;)
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	@Friday ma man, your description is easily the best I've read
SharkTooth 06.05.15	"your description is easily the best I've written" I believe you mean "read" ;)
Friday13th 06.05.15	haha thanks, unless you're trying to steal my work! ;)
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	haha
JasonCarne 06.05.15	Hey neat, one of my other picks made it in here anyway (the Dolorian album). Glad to see Paramaecium on here, even though it's not their best.
SharkTooth 06.05.15	That's a promising sign since your lists are usually really good
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	Shark, lets say that the list is filled. Then what ?
qiblas 06.05.15	Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name Named after the mighty Electric Wizard, Demon Lung is a doom band hailing from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their sound is heavily influenced by traditional doom acts like Candlemass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoCQPWRnLZk&list=PL1CCI2wbN8ii1R3TlV9sJSBsgyXtb2bCr
Balerion 06.05.15	@JasonCarne I was scrolling up reading the conversations and saw that. I like your taste sir
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@rockandmetaljunkie to quote what I said earlier to Flugmorph "the contest will start once all the blank spaces have been filled, then every 2 days there will be a match between 2 albums where users will vote on which they think is superior, the winner will then go on to the next round and so on until we have a winner"
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	that means I have a hell of a lot digging to do XD
SharkTooth 06.05.15	yep :D
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	Do I get to vote for my own pick ?
SharkTooth 06.05.15	only 3 albums left, if anyone has an album to recommend, now's as good of a time as ever
SharkTooth 06.05.15	@rockandmetaljunkie on the match where your album appears, if you think it's better than the one competing against it, then you are free to vote for it
Egarran 06.05.15	Thergothon - Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth. Funeral doom started here. Also, Cthulhu.
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	ok, but I believe most of the guys who made the suggestions will probably vote for the album of their own choice
SharkTooth 06.05.15	that hasn't happened with any of Friday's lists(I think) so I doubt it (but yeah there is a first time for everything)
Friday13th 06.05.15	Probably so but each match is one-on-one, not everyone choosing their favorites of the bunch. At most only the 2 out of 20 votes will be biased at any one time so it works fairly.
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	"At most only the 2 out of 20 votes will be biased at any one time" true...
SharkTooth 06.05.15	we're down to 2 available spots, get 'em while they're still here
Egarran 06.05.15	Thanks for adding Thergothon. I haven't heard it in ages, but it still astonishes me that it's from 1991. Some glowing reviews: http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Thergothon/Fhtagn-nagh_Yog-Sothoth/2286/
SharkTooth 06.05.15	no problem, just make sure you participate and it's all good btw I'm 1 paragraph into that review and I already want to check it out
SharkTooth 06.05.15	bump so we can get this over with and start the first match
Friday13th 06.05.15	I'm good with 18 just sayin' :X
Egarran 06.05.15	Thergothon link: https://youtu.be/jnP9udKQBNE
SharkTooth 06.05.15	ehh fuck it I'm starting the first match early (those 2 spots are still available though)
SharkTooth 06.05.15	http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?mode=1&listid=159046 first match is up
rockandmetaljunkie 06.05.15	Shark, can I suggest two albums and be done with it ?
SharkTooth 06.05.15	sorry that wouldn't be fair to the others, appreciate it though (but if nothing happens then I'll just leave it at 18)
JasonCarne 06.05.15	Could there be a few albums thrown in that aren't directly attributed to any user to close it out - kind of like wildcards?
Mort. 06.05.15	Someone do this for core pls
Keyblade 06.06.15	someone pick thorr's hammer cmon
emester 06.06.15	heres the link to my choice sorry bout the wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npXjtQ20bWQ
emester 06.11.15	Alright so I think I may have found one of my all time favorite funeral doom records. If possible switch my entry to... Sol - Let There Be A Massacre : A phenomenal funeral doom record that feels as sinister as it is crushing. Dont let the color of the album cover deceive you; this is one hell of a dark ride. Also helps that the vocal performance sounds sounds plain demonic. So yeah, this is amazing.
SCREAM! 06.11.15	I'm kind of shocked it only has 17 votes. I was sure that album was way more popular on here
SharkTooth 06.12.15	http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?mode=1&listid=159206#comments
yep123 06.12.15	Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer 30 ratings I say let it be part of the tournament
SharkTooth 06.12.15	you gotta add a description of the album first
SCREAM! 06.12.15	I prob wouldve recced Sol if I ahd realised it was so unknown. Emest might have a winner on his hands
emester 06.13.15	It could very well be. Yet I do think Dark Millennium has this one in the bag. Fucking love that album almost as much as my choice
SharkTooth 09.28.15	http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=161849