Doom Metal and associated Noise

[BristolEcho]

I was going to chuck this into the Dark Ambient thread, but why doesn't Doom Metal deserve its own thread I ask you?

Anyway my friend put me on to this type of music last year and I've picked up some good bits. I just listened to this from Bell Witch on proper speakers for the first time and it's class.

 

[kalidarkone]

BristolEcho I love this genre but am bereft of people to see live with, since splitting with my ex. So if anything live comes up please give me the heads up if you don't mind?

I'm also out of the loop so thanks for starting this!

 

[kalidarkone]

I was going to chuck this into the Dark Ambient thread, but why doesn't Doom Metal deserve its own thread I ask you?

Anyway my friend put me on to this type of music last year and I've picked up some good bits. I just listened to this from Bell Witch on proper speakers for the first time and it's class.

It's beautiful.
I don't think I could see them live unless I had an armchair

 

[kalidarkone]

Aha mojo pixy is an experienced doomster and can bring a wealth of doom to this thread!

 

[maomao]

Does Sunn O))) count? I love Sunn O))).

 

[kalidarkone]

Does Sunn O))) count? I love Sunn O))).

Yes I think so, can you put some up?

 

[xenon]

An obvious choice I know. Love a lot of MDB's work. This is especially haunting

 

[AverageJoe]

I think these qualify but I'm not a Doom expert.

I'm not sure these Belgian dudes are still going but apparently they wrote this when they were 16. If so, huge props.



Also this.



And maybe this.

 

[mojo pixy]

Whenever Doom comes up, I have to mention Esoteric...



Not for anyone who doesn't like death-metal-ish vocals, but there's a related side project too called Camel of Doom

 

[mojo pixy]

Yes I think so, can you put some up?

Hard to choose a 'favourite' SunnO))) album, and I'm way behind their output. The 'black' and 'white' ones are worth hearing but for posterity 00Void was the first one of theirs I heard, and still stands up..

 

[BristolEcho]

Hard to choose a 'favourite' SunnO))) album, and I'm way behind their output. The 'black' and 'white' ones are worth hearing but for posterity 00Void was the first one of theirs I heard, and still stands up..

Very good.

Some good stuff in the thread already.

 

[braindancer]

One of my fave albums of this year was Thou and Mizmor's collab - Myopia.

I reckon it counts as doom - or certainly doom adjacent

 

[braindancer]

And an all-time fave....

 

[BristolEcho]

BristolEcho I love this genre but am bereft of people to see live with, since splitting with my ex. So if anything live comes up please give me the heads up if you don't mind?

I'm also out of the loop so thanks for starting this!

Sorry just read this properly again. Can definitely let you know. We went to a night at the Thekla the other week - it wasn't all Doom as it veered into other stuff. Was good though. Think Conan were the main band.

 

[AverageJoe]

I want a gig partner like kalidarkone. Sadly I'm the other side of the country.

So if you get a chance, go gig with her. X

 

[CNT36]

I've been enjoying a bit of Divide and Dissolve lately.

 

[Lorca]

I quite like this stuff too - two bands at least tangentially associated with the genre that take the music in interesting directions are Gnaw Their Tongues and The Body. (just the obligatory warning that some of the Gnaw their tongues themes and videos are pretty dark/borderline unpleasant!)

 

[kalidarkone]

I want a gig partner like kalidarkone. Sadly I'm the other side of the country.

So if you get a chance, go gig with her. X

Yeah the only person in Bristol that I knew that enjoyed doom was my ex and we are no longer friends...doom is much more of an acquired taste.

 

[iona]

I wanted to go see Atomic Trip while I was in France this week but they were playing somewhere that would've been a pain in the arse to get to

 

[braindancer]

Yeah the only person in Bristol that I knew that enjoyed doom was my ex and we are no longer friends...doom is much more of an acquired taste.

I can empathise - my doom / metal buddy moved away overseas leaving me bereft of anyone to gig with ....

 

[danski]

Hopefully appropriate but listening to a few of these bits, I wonder if some of you might like Bohren & Der Club Of Gore?
Basically, doom jazz. Same dark atmospheres just different instruments. Definitely not ‘jazzy’.


Eta…oh, maybe this should’ve gone in the dark ambient thread?

 

[hash tag]

Does this count?

 

[braindancer]

Epic new album from Bell Witch - a single 83 minute track - first part of trilogy apparently. I'm basking in the sunshine listening to it at the moment and it's pretty fucking immense.....

 

[braindancer]

Also can heartily recommend this bad boy....

 

[mojo pixy]

I quite like this stuff too - two bands at least tangentially associated with the genre that take the music in interesting directions are Gnaw Their Tongues and The Body. (just the obligatory warning that some of the Gnaw their tongues themes and videos are pretty dark/borderline unpleasant!)

Gnaw Their Tongues, I had forgotten them!

Here's an album I heard around the same time I encountered GTT, likewise not doom but associated noise...

 

[braindancer]

Gnaw Their Tongues, I had forgotten them!

Here's an album I heard around the same time I encountered GTT, likewise not doom but associated noise...

Saw Imperial Triumphant last year at Supernormal... Was a blast

 

[hash tag]

Yes, I know it is a blast from the past; for fathers day I got bought Indian's From All Purity; It is one to make your ears bleed

Indian: From All Purity

The Chicago blackened doom band Indian's fifth album wields as much power from a distance as it does in close quarters. With ex-Wolves in the Throne Room guitarist Will Lindsay re-enlisting to split guitars and vocals, and Bloodyminded mastermind Mark Solotroff adding sheets of noise, it's an...

pitchfork.com

 

[braindancer]

Yes, I know it is a blast from the past; for fathers day I got bought Indian's From All Purity; It is one to make your ears bleed

I got a chocolate bar...

My kids never buy me extreme metal

I'm checking this out now - it's hideous...

 

[braindancer]

I got a chocolate bar...

My kids never buy me extreme metal

I'm checking this out now - it's hideous...

Hideous but fucking ace.

Thanks for the tip... I've totally got my doom on...

ETA: The penultimate track 'Clarity' is literally horrible though - not in a good way - genuinely horrible on the ears! - I never want to listen to it again - but then the last track is a total banger (a very slow banger of course).

 

[braindancer]

I can't get enough of this new LP from Fires in the Distance. It's not really doom, but melodic death metal but we're not gonna start threads for every metal sub-genre are we?

It's properly epic....