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Hey guys,

Ive been listening to doom metal quite a bit recently, well at least the more well-known ones such as Candlemass, Trouble, Saint Vitus, Solitude Aeturnus. I know there must be plenty other (less known) bands out there. Would appreciate it if u guys could recommend me some (80s bands would be preferred)... I just came across Faith (Swe) and Solomon Kane (UK), good stuff! Thanks in advance.

Pentagram (Us) and of course BLACK HOLE!!!!

'NOVEMBERS DOOM -Amid It's Hallowed Mirth' is a really good death/doom album, if you like Anathema, MDB or Paradise Lost?!

SOLSTICE also rule!

& maybe CHORUS OF RUIN... some of the ones I like anyway!

Check this thread : http://thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=67

Pagan Altar

Dream Death, Penance, Iron Man, War Cry.US, Orodruin, Count Raven, Blood Farmers, The Lamp Of Thoth, The Obsessed, Scald, Las Cruces, Revelation/Against Nature, Run After To, Coven (US), The River, The Gates Of Slumber

All heavy as fuck and true doom metal, if you don't like it, you don't like doom metal.

On the other hand do check out the first few releases by Anathema (with Darren White, this means Serenades, They Die EP and Pentecost III) amazing material that has nothing to do with the dross Anathema put out after that. Similarly My Dying Bride is mandatory listening up to 'Turn Loose The Swans' (so you need As The Flower Withers and Trinty EP, optimally). I won't suggest Paradise Lost to you, you've already heard them probably, heh.

Let's take a roundabout tour. After you've heard these listen to Dusk - Mourning Resurrect. Then Unholy - Second Ring of Power. According to your desires for more darkness, you might then want to check out Skepticism - Lead & Aether, Thergothon - Streams from the Heavens, dISEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into The Peripheral and Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum.

You might find yourself needing respite from the outer darkness at this point. Might I suggest Skald - Will of the Gods is Great Power, Forsaken (malta) - Dominaeon, God's Tower - The Eerie and Memory Garden - Tides.

Once you've assimilated this stuff, shout out for more.

Helm wrote:Unholy - Second Ring of Power & dISEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into The Peripheral...

Oh yeah, this is timeless stuff. Total wrist-slashing material!

Thergothon, Officium Triste, Cold Mourning, Evoken, Skepticism, Wreck of the Hesperus, Imindain as well as the others mentioned on this thread

Also CORRUPTED from Japan.

I also forgot the very essential Shades of Despair.

I'm also kinda uneducated when it comes to Doom Metal. Let's just say that my all-time favourite is Saint Vitus - S/T (Black Hole comes close though). Can anyone recommend something similar? Pentagram is a good band but nothing I've heard from them is as dark as Vitus on their darkest moments. So any suggestions for DOOOOOOM with thick & dark atmosphere, supernatural horror, lovecraftian lore etc.

The Erlking wrote:I'm also kinda uneducated when it comes to Doom Metal. Let's just say that my all-time favourite is Saint Vitus - S/T (Black Hole comes close though). Can anyone recommend something similar? Pentagram is a good band but nothing I've heard from them is as dark as Vitus on their darkest moments. So any suggestions for DOOOOOOM with thick & dark atmosphere, supernatural horror, lovecraftian lore etc.

Hmmm..... I think you'll dig the first The Gates Of Slumber album. That one is very much in the old Vitus style.

Other bands to check out are Church Of Misery, Warning, Pagan Altar (although not purely a doom band, but they're still brilliant!), the first Reverend Bizarre album etc. etc.

The Erlking wrote:I'm also kinda uneducated when it comes to Doom Metal. Let's just say that my all-time favourite is Saint Vitus - S/T (Black Hole comes close though). Can anyone recommend something similar? Pentagram is a good band but nothing I've heard from them is as dark as Vitus on their darkest moments. So any suggestions for DOOOOOOM with thick & dark atmosphere, supernatural horror, lovecraftian lore etc.

Dream Death - Journey Into Mystery, Penance - The Road Revisited/Parallel Corners, Orodruin - Epicurean Mass, Blood Farmers - Blood Farmers. Some of the darkest and heaviest true Doom Metal out there.

Thanks for the recommendions. I'm pretty familiar with Dream Death, Reverend Bizarre and Pagan Altar but the others I haven't heard or heard too little!

Solstice (UK)