The Official Doom Thread

[Ars Magna]

If you're looking for a doom/death band check out Avernus. Although they changed their style a bit later on, their early stuff is great. They have a comp with all their early material on it.

Agreed. An Endless Sea of Evening is one of my favorite songs of all time.

 

[skeptik]

Questions:

What are the essentials and your opinions of these bands and their albums (I have probably asked about a few of these in the past, so apologies):

Internal Void
Revelation
Oversoul
Solstice
Pentagram
Trouble

Internal Void's best album is Standing On The Sun, which is not impossible to find, but Unearthed is also very good and easier to find. I haven't heard the newest one.

Everything Revelation has done is brilliant stuff, I highly recommend them. One of the best in the genre. Their first two albums have been reissued recently, you should be able to find them at Hellride. Also check out Against Nature, made up of three of the Revelation guys. Everything I've heard from them thus far is brilliant. Go to one of those bands' pages on metal-archives and go to the Bland Hand Records website, you can download pretty much everything either band has done there before you buy. I'm most familiar with Appease and Descend/Much In Little from Against Nature though, so those are the ones I would recommend.

I still haven't heard Oversoul, but Doomcifer blows his load over them from what I remember.

Solstice is another one of the bands that I consider to be among the best of the genre. Everything is good, but New Dark Age really stands above the rest.

Pentagram is of course absolutely classic. I first and foremost highly recommend their first album, Relentless, and the two compilations of 70s material, First Daze Here and First Daze Here Too, but Be Forewarned is not to be passed up either. If you're really liking what you've heard, the other albums are good as well, but not quite as strong, and Bobby Liebling's vocals have drastically declined.

Anything off of Trouble's first 4 albums are a safe bet, though the first two are definitely the best.

Admittedly, I've been using Necuratal's doom list on the LotFP board as a guide. Cheers.

No problem, glad I could help.

EDIT: Are all Solitude Aeturnus albums worth getting?

I would say yes, though that's based on minimal exposure to everything past Beyond The Crimson Horizon. I've probably only heard those albums once or twice, but I remember them being enjoyable, nothing that would prevent me from buying them. The first two albums (especially the aforementioned) are generally considered their best though, from what I understand.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Jeff, you're getting into good shit now. Here is a list of stuff (excluding demos) you should own imho (some you may own already).

Abdullah - Abdullah
All Souls' Day - Into The Mourning
Blood Farmers - Permanent Brain Damage
Candlemass - EDM, Nightfall, Tales of Creation, Ancient Dreams
Cirith Ungol - King of The Dead
Confessor - Unraveled
Count Raven - Destruction of The Void, High On Infinity, Storm Warning
Doomraiser - Lords of Mercy
Dreaming - II
Fall of the Idols - Womb of The Earth, The Seance
Forsaken - Dominaeon, Evermore, Anima Mundi, Iconoclast
Great Coven - Viaticum
Griftegard - Psalm Bok
Hour of 13 - Hour of 13
Iron Man - Generation Void, The Passage
Isole - Forevermore
Las Cruces - Ringmaster
Mirror of Deception - Foregone, Mirrorsoil
Ogre - Seven Hells, Plague of The Planet, Dawn of The Proto-Man
Old Season - Volume One
Orodruin - Epicurean Mass
Oversoul - Seven Days In November (now named Dwell Within)
Pagan Altar - Volume One
Pale Divine - Thunder Perfect Mind, Eternity Revealed, Cemetery Earth
Paul Chain - Alkahest
Pentagram - Day of Reckoning, Pentagram/Relentless
Reino Ermitano - Brujas Del Mar (not sure how youd feel about this, spanish/fem vox)
Revelation - Never Comes Silence, Salvations Answer, Yet So Far (you'll probably dig YSF, but prob not the others...if you dig early Revelation, check out Against Nature too)
Reverend Bizarre - Everything
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus, Die Healing
Scald - Will of The Gods Is Great Power
Semlah - Suffering In Silence
Slow Horse - II
Solace - Further, 13, The Black Black
Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond The Crimson Horizon, Into The Depths of Sorrow, Through The Darkest Hour, Alone, Adagio
Solstice - New Dark Age, Lamentations, Halcyon
Sorcerer - Sorcerer
The Gates of Slumber - The Awakening, Conquerer, Suffer No Guilt
The Obsessed - The Obsessed, The Church Within, Lunar Womb
The River - Drawing Down The Sun
Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
Thunderstorm - Witchhunter Tales
Trouble - Psalm 9, The Skull
Unorthodox - Asylum, Balance of Power
Valkyrie - Valkyrie
Voodooshock - Maries' Sisters Garden
Warcry - Forbidden Evil
Warning - Watching From a Distance, Strength To Dream
Well of Souls - Well of Souls
While Heaven Wept - Chapter One: 1989-1999, Of Empires Forlorn

Now, if you want to get into demos, I can send you some shit. Lots of good stuff, and GREAT newer bands coming out of the woodwork.

 

[J.]

Thanks guys. This will keep me busy for the next couple of years.

Yeah, I've got a bit of that list. Some I've heard, but couldn't get into, and others I am currently searching for.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I added Hour of 13 to that list. Forgot about em for some reason. One of the best releases last year.

This new band sounds promising -- Procession - Incinerate Down The River of...

www.myspace.com/kuraviluprods

 

[J.]

Solstice's Lamentations is awesome. I really like Penance. They aren't flashy, and don't really have those standout moments too often, but damn they consistently released good music.

I also liked the first two from SOlitude Aeturnus.

 

[J.]

Internal Void - Standing on the Sun

EXCELLENT! I love the Sabbath-inspired stuff.

 

[Demilich]

You never answered when I asked about Sleep!

 

[Para-Void]

argh!
I can't get into the new mourning beloveth, and that's one of my favorite doom bands right now.
This album is sooo fast! At some parts I'm giggling at how melo-deathish it sounds even. This band has so much talent and potential, but this new approach doesn't let any of the riffs sink in, or transform any sort of atmosphere.
I hope I'm wrong and it will sound different with time. But honestly, I don't really feel like playing this bore.

 

[Krilons Resa]

J. - since it's finally available again, get this NOW, or I shall kill you.

http://www.smartcart.com/hellride/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=HM-981

 

[J.]

ok, ill check it out. but two revelation cds showed up today and solstice's halcyon

yeah, new morning beloveth aint hitting me in the sweet spot either. maybe in time, since im not into that stuff right now.

 

[Para-Void]

Just now I stumped upon the new Ataraxie! Damn, gotta check it out. Their previous was amazing.

 

[J.]

yeah, the Oversoul CD is solid. Revelatio's first two are good, but not my favorite. Still very enjoyable though. Solstice is fucking awesome, at least Halcyon and Lamentations. Havent got New Dark Age yet.

Burning Saviours is fun.

Unorthodox is my favorite. Both Asylum and Balance of Power just plain rock.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Jeff - Are you familiar with Solace?

If not, do eet.

Oh, and hold on tight for New Dark Age.

 

[J.]

that revelation album in your avatar. is it available anywhere?

new dark age has been ordered.

will probably get hour of 13 soon.

anyone know where Frozen Masque and Yet So Far can be gotten? How about Internal Void's Matricide? or Burning Savious debut?

i saw a SOlace CD used in a CD store near work. ill check to see if it's still there come saturday.

 

[Krilons Resa]

It is going to be available come Declaration of Doom, July 4th weekend from Brenner. Not sure when the official release date is. I believe sometime in July anyway. It's definitely a fantastic album.

Frozen Masque/Yet So Far, which are pretty much the same album, have been sold out for a while now. May be tough to get a hold of.

The CD Store near your work rules btw.

 

[Climb Thar Hill]

So yeah, the latest from Fall of the Idols is gaymazing...Might say I enjoy a bit better than the first offering

 

[swizzlenuts]

So yeah, the latest from Fall of the Idols is gaymazing...Might say I enjoy a bit better than the first offering

Yeah, I like it more than Womb too.

 

[J.]

just ordered some Iron Man. also ordered some Against Nature.

what a great story.

 

[swizzlenuts]

Both are solid purchases! What Iron Man?