Where to start w/ Doom? Band Suggestions

[pelliott]

Pallbearer and Samothrace are both excellent and should be added to your list!

Almost every other band I could think of to check out was taken. Nice work, fellas.

[Greenfuz]

sleep and electric wizard is all you need

[AngryGoldfish]

If someone knows the Youtubes better than I do we should create a primer playlist/mixtape.

'Cause looking at a list of bands (and my god, there are so many A+ doom bands from the last fifteen years it's absurd) isn't actually all that helpful--at least, it wouldn't be for me.

There are a few Spotify playlists I know of that that select a bunch of awesome Doom tracks, but not everyone is signed up for Spotify or has it available in their country, and not every Doom band wants their music on Spotify. I have a YouTube playlist of metal I've collected over the years, but it includes Hardcore, Djent, Post-Metal, Sludge, etc. It's not just Doom.

I think my favourite Doom bands have already been mentioned here, but I'll reaffirm them:

YOB
Rwake
Tombs
Indian
Earth
Pallbearer
Thou

And a selection of less Doom bands that still cater to the same genre:

Young Widows
Neurosis
Minsk
Kowloon Walled City
Kylesa
Mastodon
ISIS
High On Fire
Giant Squid
Battle of Mice
Made Out of Babies
Whores.
Cult of Luna

[Iommic Pope]

Tombs' Winter Hours is fucking incredible. I can never leave that record alone.

[Wes Mantooth]

Electric Wizard is what got me into Doom.

Dopethrone is actually my favorite album of all time, Sleep's Dopesmoker and Electric Wizard's Come My Fanatics are also up there

I guess to throw something new in:

Seidr- Not straight doom but definitely many elements.
BelzeBong- Just straight up instrumental stoner doom. Certainly don't bring anything new to the table but they know how to write some crunchy grooves.

[misterstomach]

some great suggestions have been made. as i would expect, this board will mostly show the stoner/riff rock/ sabbathy type of doom. but doom is a wide genre with a lot of subgenres. i usually am more into the darker depressive grim and suicidal forms. really heavy, really dark and often really pretty. here's some stuff.

i know i post this video a lot, but it's such a killer song and this is a doom suggestion thread.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ewgPevTbU[/youtube]

and some others

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYU9kcAaqwk[/youtube]

if y'all don't know this newer corrupted, you better give it a listen. for some reason this video has almost a half hour of silence at the end, it's not actually an hour long song, although it is really long.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OmGPi6Swk[/youtube]

another one i post a lot.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLg4oh4bDRU[/youtube]

while listening to this absolute jammer of depressive suicidal funeral doom, be sure to make note of the reverb on the backing clean guitar track, which is soloed at 1:10 or so. sounds so killer.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BWGxsGZQ4[/youtube]

[AngryGoldfish]

Tombs' Winter Hours is fucking incredible. I can never leave that record alone.

Just bought it. I didn't realise they had another album out. I thought Path of Totality was their first and only.

[D.o.S.]

Tombs is fucking scary live.

Also, Corrupted's new record is pretty cool, but my fave is El Mundo Frio.

[misterstomach]

it's hard to choose a favorite with corrupted. pretty awesome band. i've just been loving this newer album recently. i was lucky enough to see them with asunder in 2008. fucking incredible show. they blow minds live.

[pelliott]

Tombs is fucking scary live.

Seriously. I walked into the venue where I saw them in BTV a few years back and Mike Hill was just sitting in the corner, with his hood up, sweating profusely and staring into the middle distance. They then performed one of the most intense shows I've ever seen.

[D.o.S.]

Tombs is fucking scary live.

Seriously. I walked into the venue where I saw them in BTV a few years back and Mike Hill was just sitting in the corner, with his hood up, sweating profusely and staring into the middle distance. They then performed one of the most intense shows I've ever seen.

Ah! at 242 Main?

Small. World.

[pelliott]

YUP.

[blackmass]

Reverend Bizarre

Pentagram

[nightterrors]

HAGGATHA

[humancertainty]

Primitive Man is my current favorite. Yob is amazing, although I'm not a fan of the reunion albums.
If you're totally new to doom, just listen to a lot of Black Sabbath. A lot.
They never seem to be mentioned, but early My Dying Bride is amazing. Actually, I love all of that early British stuff(Paradise Lost, Anathema, etc.) and it never seems to get too much love. There weren't too many other names in the game back then and I really remember there not being a whole lot else circa '92 or so.
Fuck me. That was 21 years ago.
Grandpa needs to go get a nice cup of tea now.