Albums currently kicking your ass

[mutantllama]

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I've never given much doom a chance, and this is the first time I've listened to this band specifically, and....god damn this good music. This is a monster of a doom record, and it has caused me to desire more. I never thought I'd enjoy a doom album like this anymore.

listen to warning 'watching from a distance' it'll either make you fall in love with doom forever or put you off ever listening to another doom album ever again

I will also recommend Revelation if you like Pallbearer. They are very accessible, but so good. Also Pallbearer just put out a new one. It's different than the first one, but I like it just as much.

I'm also going to throw in Sadhak along with these.

 

[divine_torture]

I've never heard of Sadhak. I'll give all of those a try though.

I forgot about this album but man is it some evil, well produced black metal:

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Reverend Bizarre is another doom band that everyone should listen to and enjoy.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

for Savage Grace, Jag Panzer, and Defender above.

Stoner rock meets black metal, one of those things that shouldn't work but does. Despite being from the Pacific Northwest, the album is from 2001 which means you know it isn't pandering hipster shit.

 

[divine_torture]

Reverend Bizarre is another doom band that everyone should listen to and enjoy.

Just based on the fact I enjoyed what I heard on your bandcamp, I'll give that a try too.

 

[divine_torture]

I like Blood Oath better, but this is solid death metal. It seems they've hit a groove since they stopped being amazing in '95...

 

[ProphetofHatred]

Pinnacle of Bedlam has some AMAZING riffs.

 

[divine_torture]

I'm listening to it through headphones for the first time. Some of these riffs are retarded good. And fast without noodling.

 

[Pyro Stick]

 

[Baroque]

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Mmmmmmm. Pristine.

 

[Krow]

Currently foaming at the mouth anticipation of my vinyl version getting here. Amazon was so kind as to send me an mp3 version of the album for free.

Also, this isnt and never will be black metal you faggots.

Double also, dont break the page.

 

[KafkaX]

Ive heard rumors of a Mercyful Fate tour in the works...Anyone else heard similar rumors?

Seeing him on Halloween and Im going to loose my shit if he plays any old Mercyful Fate shit.

 

[no country for old wainds]

MF were referred to as black metal by some metal mags at the time, and had some influence on the first wave no doubt, so i don't really mind them being referred to as proto-BM or something. obviously to call them fully-fledged BM is ridiculous.

 

[Nephilim96]

The only impact Mercyful Fate had on Black Metal was corpse paint. That's it.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Their lyrics seemed more genuinely Satanic than what Venom & co. were doing. In interviews Venom played off any seriousness even early in their career, but I'm pretty sure King Diamond claimed to be a devout Satanist at least until a few years into his solo career.

 

[no country for old wainds]

aye, the corpse paint is just a small part of the deranged satanic vibe king diamond cultivated, and that whole aura surely influenced BM. musically, yeah, the link is pretty tenuous with what most of us would call BM today. although, i should point out that there are a lot of old-schoolers out there who consider 'real' black metal to be the stuff that was originally defined as such in the mid-'80s.

 

[Nephilim96]

Satanism isn't associated with just Black Metal, though.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Neither is almost any individual quality of any particular sub-genre of metal.

 

[Nephilim96]

Neither is almost any individual quality of any particular sub-genre of metal.

Technically, yes, nothing is exactly unique to any one genre/sub-genre, but there are things that I would say are primarily associated with a single sub-genre. Take corpse paint for example; I'm sure you can find at least a couple bands in every sub-genre that use corpse paint, but the percentage of Black Metal bands that use corpse paint compared to the percentage of non-Black Metal bands that use corpse paint is significant. We're probably talking ~35% of black metal compared to <1% of Power metal, Death Metal, and so on. Satanism on the other hand, is incorporated into Death Metal and Doom Metal just as much as it's incorporated into Black Metal.

Mercyful Fate had lots of influence on Extreme Metal as a whole, but to single out Black Metal, is... just wrong. (I realize you're not arguing that, I'm just saying it for the hell of it.)