Black-doom Black-doom, also known as blackened doom, is a style that combines the slowness and thicker, bassier sound of doom metal with the
shrieking vocals and heavily distorted guitar sound of
black metal. Black-doom bands maintain the Satanic ideology associated with black metal, while melding it with moodier themes more related to doom metal, like depression, nihilism, and nature.
Forgotten Tomb,
Deinonychus,
Shining,
Nortt,
Bethlehem, early
Katatonia,
Tiamat, with lyrics revolving around themes such as depression, self-harm, misanthrophy, suicide, and death. DSBM bands draw the
lo-fi recording and highly distorted guitars of black metal, while employing the usage of acoustic instruments and non-distorted electric guitar's timbres present in doom metal, interchanging the slower, doom-like, sections with faster
tremolo picking.
Leviathan, Examples of blackened death-doom bands include Morast,
Dragged into Sunlight, Hands of Thieves, and
Soulburn.
Kim Kelly, journalist from
Vice, has called Faustcoven as "one of the finest bands to ever successfully meld black, death, and doom metal into a cohesive, legible whole." Influenced mostly by the early work of
Hellhammer and
Celtic Frost, the style emerged during the late 1980s and gained a certain amount of popularity during the 1990s.
Disembowelment,
Funeral doom Funeral doom is a genre that crosses
death-doom with
funeral dirge music. It is played at an extremely slow tempo, and places an emphasis on evoking a sense of emptiness and despair.
Esoteric,
Evoken,
Funeral,
Thergothon, and
Skepticism.
Drone metal performing live Drone metal (also known as drone doom) is a style of doom metal that is largely defined by
drones; notes or chords that are
sustained and repeated throughout a piece of music. Typically, the electric guitar is performed with large amounts of
reverb and
feedback Songs are often very long and lack
beat or
rhythm in the traditional sense.
Boris, and
Sunn O))). Lyrics and imagery are typically inspired by
fantasy or
mythology.
Solitude Aeturnus,
Solstice,
While Heaven Wept,
Gothic-doom Gothic-doom, also known as doom-gothic, is a style that combines more traditional elements of doom metal with
gothic rock. Gothic-doom bands usually play at slow and mid-tempos and employ the usage of instruments that are more related to
classical music, alongside traditional doom metal instruments, in order to create darker and meditative atmospheres.
the Foreshadowing,
Artrosis,
Ava Inferi,
Draconian, and
Type O Negative.
Progressive doom Progressive doom (also known as technical doom) is a fusion genre that combines elements of
progressive rock and
progressive metal with doom metal. Some bands in this genre may incorporate elements of death metal, black metal, post-metal, stoner metal, folk metal and gothic metal.
Sierra,
Oceans of Slumber,
Confessor,
Sludge metal Sludge metal (also known as sludge doom) is a style that combines doom metal and
hardcore punk. However, some bands emphasise fast tempos throughout their music. The string instruments are heavily
distorted and are often played with large amounts of
feedback to produce an abrasive, sludgy sound. and
Grief.
Sludgecore Sludgecore further combines sludge metal with hardcore punk, and possesses a slow pace, a low and dark pitch, and a grinding dirge-like feel. Some bands also incorporate
Southern rock influences in their sound. Bands regarded as sludgecore include Acid Bath, Eyehategod,
Soilent Green, Black Sheep Wall, Admiral Angry, and
The Abominable Iron Sloth. Crowbar mixed "detuned, lethargic sludged-out metal with hardcore and southern elements".
Stoner metal of
Electric Wizard Stoner metal or stoner doom describes doom metal that incorporates
psychedelic rock and
acid rock elements. Stoner metal is often heavily
distorted,
groove-laden
bass-heavy sound, making much use of
guitar effects such as
fuzz,
phaser, or
flanger. Stoner bands typically play in slow-to-mid
tempo, employing the usage of melodic vocals and "retro" production. It was pioneered in the early–mid-1990s by bands such as
Kyuss,
Sleep,
Electric Wizard,
Orange Goblin,
Desert rock Desert rock combines the psychedelic elements of stoner metal with
hard rock characteristics.
Fu Manchu,
Earthlings? traditional doom metal bands more commonly use higher guitar tunings, and do not play as slowly as many other doom bands. Vocals are usually clean with the occasional growl or scream.
Reverend Bizarre,
Witchcraft,
Saint Vitus, and
Count Raven. == Reception ==