Dopethrone by Electric Wizard
I recently got into slug metal. Would you have any recommendations for sludge, funereal, and/or doom metal?
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 1 week ago
Isn’t Dopethrone Doomer/Drone/Stoner? How many names are there for the same subgenre?
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 1 week ago
JenIsBringingTheDrugs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Old thread but felt I had to mention the Dance of December souls & Brave murder day albums by Katatonia
fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week 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
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 1 week 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
ELO@piefed.social 1 week 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.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
ELO@piefed.social 1 week ago
Dude, Windhand's Forest Clouds is so freaking sick. What a vibe—the album art, the track names, and ofc the sound is so awesome. Man, it feels so hyperbolic, but I honestly haven't had this feeling listening to music in sooo long.
For sure, I dig some death/black metal stuff a bit, but I've always been a nu metal plebian that having this convo on reddit would just have die-hard gatekeepers take a dump on me, tbh. I've always hated how gatekeepy metal has always been. Thanks for the recs and interesting genre info! All the genre names are so hilariously awesome xD
crank0271@lemmy.world 1 week 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
Mac@mander.xyz 1 week ago
This would be a neat site if it displayed properly.