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Can anyone recommend any classics from this genre? Struggling to determine whether this is bad or I just don't understand the genre yet as I have no frame of reference

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check Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came



Novembers Doom are pretty unremarkable, imo.

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Ahab-Call of the Wretched Sea (heavier, more guttural funeral doom)

Candlemass-Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (classic, sabbath inspired doom)

Solstice-New Dark Ages (epic doom metal)

My Dying Bride-Turn Loose the Swans (Traditional doom, most depressing sound in my opinion)

Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance (More streamlined doom. Consistently amazing still)

Draconian-Where Lovers Mourn (Melodic death inspired doom)

Swallow the Suns-The Morning Never Came (same deal as Draconian)

Black Sabbath-Any of the highly rated albums although their first is my personal favorite (Classic metal/doom)

Funeral-Tragedies (funeral doom)

Thergothon-Stream From the Heavens (same deal as above)

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Also Saint Vitus, Cathedral, Worship and Paradise Lost are pretty big although I never heavily listened to them.

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For a really brutal death/doom hybrid try diSEMBOWLEMENT's only album

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Cheers fellas, a lot to go on

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I'm aiming to one day be the Doom connoisseur of Sputnik tbh

gonna check out because I like the style of the artwork and you've already snuck one band past my metal filter.. also, nice write-up, pos..

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I'm making a convert out of you :p Tbh Agalloch is about as far removed from metal as metal gets so we'll see how this goes

yea, I don't think I'll be jamming anything drastic anytime soon.. but still, getting a cool new rec from an unexplored genre is the best point of sites like these..

faux

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@asleep were you asking about this specific kind of doom metal or just recs for doom in general?

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Well he said classics for this genre so I imagined he meant Doom in its entirety. I put genre tags/descriptions just in case though.

heres some proper doom you'll love it king

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdIenxU44Ns

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You are right, it rules. I'll listen to them a lot more later. This among the much more depressive vein like Thergothon imo and I like it.

Ahab-Call of the Wretched Sea (heavier, more guttural funeral doom)
Not their best though

Candlemass-Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (classic, sabbath inspired doom)
Yes it is

Solstice-New Dark Ages (epic doom metal)
Great rec

My Dying Bride-Turn Loose the Swans (Traditional doom, most depressing sound in my opinion)
Cool, but not that depressing.

Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance (More streamlined doom. Consistently amazing still)
Not doom at all

Draconian-Where Lovers Mourn (Melodic death inspired doom)
Band sucks dick

Swallow the Suns-The Morning Never Came (same deal as Draconian)
Great album, unlike Draconian they aren't Gothic/Doom

Black Sabbath-Any of the highly rated albums although their first is my personal favorite (Classic metal/doom)
Influential for doom but not really part of the sub-genre

Funeral-Tragedies (funeral doom)
Not Funeral Doom. Kinda boring album. Demo's better and closer to Funeral Doom though.

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Katatonias really hard to pin down exactly, I was kind of stretching it their which is why I said more streamlined Doom. They self-define themselves as Dark metal I believe.

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Also Draconian rules boi

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Katatonia sounds like vaguely depressing alt metal

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Their early records are pretty heavy on the Doom influence. More recent ones not quite as much but it's definitely still there.