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• Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh snap thanks for pointing this out! Been a long time and I haven’t kept up with ISIS, but their Panopticon was damn near genre-defining for me at the time.

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  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m glad to see they’ve turned a corner in their careers. Last I heard they were mostly producing beheading videos.

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    • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol yeah, name became a wee bit unfortunate thanks to those angry rascals

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So it’s not a nasheed

        Thx

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really all that related, but if you like Panopticon by Isis, you might also appreciate the best Appalachian atmospheric black metal I’ve ever heard, Kentucky by Panopticon.

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    • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Buddy, “Appalachian atmospheric black metal” is a weird combination of words I’ve never seen before and I’m stoked to give it a whirl. Praise Satan for metal keeping things interesting.

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      • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Add Blackbraid to that list as well. Amazing one man native black metal.

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    • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now find more metal by a band Kentucky

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  • kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolute all-timer of an album IMO

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    • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This record, a few by Neurosis, and one or two by Cult of Luna were such a vibe. We knew some knuckleheads who even started a joke ish band called Cult of Neurisis lol

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      • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Check out Battle of Mice, Deafheaven, and Oathbreaker if you haven’t. They lean pretty heavily on the depressing side of metal, but they have some killer vibes.

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• aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recently got into slug metal. Would you have any recommendations for sludge, funereal, and/or doom metal?

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pallbearer and Ahab are both pretty good for funeral doom or death/doom (depending on who you ask).

    I like a little bit of “epic” doom themes but trad doom, power metal, and actual epic doom are a little too cheesy for me, so I lean toward Conan (very heavy, approaching a sludge-drone hybrid) and Khemmis (who describe their sound as “doomed heavy metal”)

    I actualoly usually skew more psychedelic doom or stoner/prog doom, which has a lot of great stuff in the past few decades. Sleep’s Holy Mountain (classic stoner metal), Grief’s Infernal Flower by Windhand (psych doom), Our Raw Heart by YOB (heavy stoner/prog), Lore by Elder (very proggy but still catchy).

    Also, I assume you’ve seen the most common recommendations for classic sludge, The Melvins (especially Houdini and Bullhead), Eyehategod, and Side B of My War by Black Flag. If not, get started there

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    • ELO@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I've been on a non-stop yt metal rabbit hole after googling some of these bands. Thanks for re-awakening the wide world of metal. It's strange how you go through different types of music throughout your life.

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      • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Happy to get you excited with some new music! I’ve listened to heavy music for decades but it had definitely gotten a little stale for me. It was only in the last 2 years that I discovered stoner/doom as a sub-genre, so I’m not all that far ahead of you. Some really great stuff that is frankly just as heavy but much catchier than most other metal subgenres. I mean, I love me some black/death metal, but I’m just not really getting obsessed with bands/albums/songs the same way as I can with this slow riff worship you see in stoner/doom.

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for sharing all this. I go through phases with music and it’ll be great to have some new bands to check out.

      Back in the day I got a kick out of this site and would send it to people who were just learning about and starting to get into metal: mapofmetal.com

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This would be a neat site if it displayed properly.

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  • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dopethrone by Electric Wizard

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    • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t Dopethrone Doomer/Drone/Stoner? How many names are there for the same subgenre?

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      • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s considered doom metal or stoner metal. Metal has a huge number of related subgenres. Sludge metal has more screaming. Stoner metal has more guitar riffs. Doom metal is like stoner metal, but heavier and with lyrics about Dungeons and Dragons.

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, may I introduce you to our slug metal overlords, Slugdge

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  • JenIsBringingTheDrugs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Old thread but felt I had to mention the Dance of December souls & Brave murder day albums by Katatonia

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  • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could check out High on Fire if you haven’t.

    Saw them open for Mastodon in 2009 (I think). Fucking excellent on stage.

    Started the night off with Fireface: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2HFUePNKDs

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