Ok, I see that the ephebophile guy is denying that the Esoteric and Mournful Congregation albums are doom albums. Alright, last time I checked, Esoteric was a doom band. No, not a trad doom band, not a stoner doom band, and not an epic doom band, but some kind of idiosyncratic doom (not sure if I want to call it funeral doom, hmmmm...) I haven't heard this particular Esoteric album but I'm assuming that it's not radically different from what they did before. I'm also listening to some stuff from that Mournful Congregation album and it sounds like funeral doom to me. So exactly how are these albums not doom? I'm honestly curious.
This denial that these albums are doom seems to me at first blush to be a curious form of metal forum dick waving. I was going to make a thread about this phenomenon because I've started to take notice of it, but I decided not to.