What the fuck is 'funeral doom' metal?

[Mercy/Severity]

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and what are some bands in said genre?

 

[Guthrum]

Reclusiam
Mournful Congregation

 

[hibernal_dream]

Skepticism
Thergothon
Pantheist
Evoken

From Doom-metal.com: Funeral Doom
We use the term Funeral Doom to describe the most extreme split off of Death/Doom. These bands have taken the slowness and heaviness of Doom-metal to new extremes. Generally, the bands create very distorted and depressive yet dreamy music. Grunts or some totally distored version of that are also frequently used. These are the extremists when it comes to slowness and heaviness. The term comes forth from the way the music sounds as if it would fit a funeral or funeral proccession (often moving at the pace of a funeral march).

 

[Perdition's Light]

Pantheist isn't that great imo but the other bands mentioned are good to awesome.

 

[Birkenau]

Thergothon

Here's some samples.
http://nikoskorpio.net/sound/thergothon_stream_03_theunknownkadath.mp3
http://nikoskorpio.net/sound/thergothon_stream_05_whoridestheastralwings.mp3

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Funeral Doom is allright sometimes...I feel the same way about Drone. To me, they're both really music for mood, while I can listen to Doom Metal or more rock-oriented "stoner" Doom anytime.

 

[Fredy_Brown]

If music genre has compositional elements of metal, it´s metal....and funeral doom has them, hasn´t it?
Check out "The Sins Of Thy Beloved "

 

[Scourge of Malice]

I think Shape of Despair is classified as Funeral Doom, but many would disagree cause a lot of their stuff sounds kinda "happy." But maybe they'd be a good starting point if you wanted to check out the genre. "Quiet These Paintings Are" is a very beautiful, slow, long, doom song.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Thergothon and especially Skepticism kick ass, never really got into Evoken but they're not bad.

 

[kmik]

Modern funeral and 'extreme' doom sucks, no exceptions.

Thergothon > Skepticism

 

[Nag]

Pantheist isn't that great imo but the other bands mentioned are good to awesome.

I like Pantheist.

You will too

 

[Perdition's Light]

I think Shape of Despair is classified as Funeral Doom, but many would disagree cause a lot of their stuff sounds kinda "happy." But maybe they'd be a good starting point if you wanted to check out the genre. "Quiet These Paintings Are" is a very beautiful, slow, long, doom song.

This is all very true. :Spin:

 

[Priest of Evil]

Funeral Doom is about as slow as you can go, you can find samples of Mournful Congregation on their homepage
http://www.mournfulcongregation.tk/
Between them and the Thergothon link (provided above by Birkenau) you should form a decent idea of what the genre is like.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Do Disembowelment count? They're absolutely brilliant.

 

[Erik]

Do Disembowelment count? They're absolutely brilliant.

No, they don't, so stop shitting up the thread

diS is also severely overrated, but sure, they're good!

 

[no country for old wainds]

You just hate them 'cause they're a better Aussie band than your boyfriends D666

 

[Erik]

They're nowhere CLOSE to being better than D666. diS is one of those bands that was completely original and influenced a lot of GREAT, GREAT bands, but themselves aren't all that awesome. Maybe if they had made a second album they would have gotten better, but...

 

[no country for old wainds]

stop listening to agalloch

 

[Erik]

piss off

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Amber's tastes will most probably take a complete 180 in about a year or so, so there's really no need to take him seriously.