1974 Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
Tag: heavy metal
This album defines the first Not-Sabbath band, Metal begins taking shape as it goes farther away from simple Hard Rock. This is also the year Kiss and Van Halen form.
When I was a kid I was turned away by Judas Priest when I knew they didn't want kids listening to their albums, I rediscovered them much later in life.
1975 Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Tag: heavy metal
Black Sabbath's seminal first five albums have already been released, however it includes one of my favorites, Symptom of the Universe as well as my least favorite, Am I Going Insane (Radio).
1976 Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Tag: heavy metal
Metal begins the long hard road of being stereotyped as controversial, by now Shock Rock by the likes of Alice Cooper and Kiss is in full strenght.
I never listened to Scorpions seriously, when I was discovering Metal their glory days had already passed.
1977 Motörhead - Motörhead
Tag: heavy metal, speed metal
The reticent fathers of Speed Metal make their debut this year. A scene that is only seven years old begins showing signs of being diverse.
1978 Van Halen - Van Halen
Tag: heavy metal, glam
The seed of the very decadent and brief incursion of Metal into the mainstream, I would know about them alongside everyone else, with their album 1984
1979 AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Tag: heavy metal
By now, AC/DC is a well established band and shirts with their logo are common in the street, my introduction to AC/DC was thanks to a lone song in a compilation; I knew I liked it, but I dared not look for more.
Well, what do you expect? I'm five in 1979!
1980 Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
Tag: heavy metal
I love the riff of Crazy Train,yet I secretly wish the song was better...
1981 Venom - Welcome to Hell
Tag: heavy metal
The beginning of Extreme Metal and yet I am oblivious to this. No death growls yet, but the satanism associated to Black Metal is there.
1982 Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Tag: doom metal
By now, Both Witchfinder General and Saint Vitus have taken the original somber sound of Black Sabbath and created Doom Metal, a distinct branch of tye Metal tree.
1983 Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Tag: nwobhm
When I was a kid I was absolutely terrified of Eddie! I could not stand watching at the covers! This is my favorite Maiden album, although my Favorite song is Fear of the Dark.
1984 Ángeles del Infierno - Pacto con el diablo
Tag: heavy metal
When I was in Secondary school they made me watch this documentary where a priest spoke about how Metal was evil and had subliminal messages and was corrupting the youth (yeah right). He continually used the song Maldito Sea Tu Nombre as evidence of thus, because it presents the Devil in a positive light. so I listened to that song, I loved it and got myself the tape, Guess my soul was beyond salvation at that point!
1985 Possessed - Seven Churches
Tag: death metal
Extreme metal at its finest and I am still playing with my action figures from Return of The Jedi...
1986 Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Tag: doom metal
This album contains one of my favorite songs ever; Solitude. This is one of the reasons I started previewing albums from the Internet, CDs are very expensive in my country, so I have to make sure the one CD I do buy is not going to be a waste. I only knew about this album as from recently.
1987 Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Tag: black metal
The world has to suffer the decadence of mainstream metal from the likes of Ratt, Skid Row and Cinderella and this jewel is brewing, the future seed of all metal is silent but extrtemely loud...
1988 - King Diamond - "Them"
Tag: heavy metal
I love King Diamond because he dares to sing evil in that chipmunky voice! In that moment of my life I believed all metal had the same operatic, Dioesque quality but oh no!
1989 - W. A. S. P. The Headless Children
Tag: heavy metal
I entered preparatory and I had to save for a week to buy an album. I saw this one at the record store and bought it the same reason many other kids do, because it looked "evil" and was I surprised!!! Many of you may think less about W. A. S. P. but I still enjoy this album very much.
1990 - Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
Tag: doom metal
Although many people like Beyond the Crimson Horizon better, I rediscovered this jewel thanks to a fading memory, I had this lyric I could not take from my mind, so one day I googled it and found it was from White Ship, which remains one of my favorite songs.
1991 - Thergothon - Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Gothoth
Tag: doom metal
Yay! Lovecraft inspired music that is not corny,. but actually captures qhat I felt when I was a kid and read "The color out of space" for the first time!
1992 - Root - The Temple In The Underworld
Tag: heavy metal
If I ever have a daughter I am definitively naming her Casilda because of Casilda's Song.
1993 - Brujería - Matando Güeros
Tag: death metal, grindcore
My first real approach to extreme metal. To this day I prefer Death Metal in a language that is not my own (spanish), because actually being able to understand it creeped me out big time.
And the cover is a real classic!
1994 - My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Tag: doom metal
I heard this album for the first time in a discman that a girl I was dating gave me while I waited for her outside her class. She had been looking for that album and she finally got around to order it and I was hooked instantly! Back then I liked all sorts of music that I consider stupid now. (I actually took band names from MTV! ugh!!!)
1995 - Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Tag: doom metal
One of my regrets in life is not going to concerts when I had the chance. I actually missed them when they came to Mexico!!
1996 - Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Tag: doom metal
One of the only albums or pieces of art that have made me realize the sad reality that I have the personality of an addict, but not the access to the drugs.
That might be the reason I like stoner doom so much.
1997 - Burzum - Daudi Baldrs
Tag: black metal, dark ambient
I love the mental pictures this album gives me, so cold, so desolate, so majestic.. Free Varg Vikernes!!!
1998 - Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Tag: epic metal
The only album of Epic Metal I like, I haven't been so proactive in listening to more Blind Guardian or Iced Earth or other Epic bands, just because this album fills me so completely.
1999 - Morgion - Solinari
Tag: doom metal
What? You got the name wrong!!! It should be Nuitari!!! Get your Dragonlance deities right!!! You almost make me ashamed of having played Dungeons and Dragons so many years!
2000 - Ufomammut - Godlike Snake
Tag: sludge doom
For years and years this band eluded me, it was the holy grail for me, I just listened to a preview in an obscure website and I was hooked! Until recentñy I got the albums and they don't dissapoint!
2001 - Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order
Tag: symphonic black metal
Do you remember Audiogalaxy? It was a lot like last.fm, with genre clouds, recommendations, forums, live chat... Back in the day of dial-up it was the place where us Napster refugees went to discover new music, I still listened to a lot of garbage The New Shins? blechhhh!!! I got Stabat Mater Dolorosa because I was hooked on a play by the same name and I got this jewel. I got to admit that it was hard for me to get Black Metal, but once I did I never regretted it.
2002 Funeral - In Fields of Pestilent Grief
Tag: funeral doom
I loved Funeral Doom from day one! The ambient, the atmosphere, the twenty minutes or more-long songs. That's why I don't scrobble more songs, my average song is ten minutes long! (and also I listen to one-hour podcasts, last.fm should take into account the time you spend scrobbling!)
2003 - Necrophagia - The Divine Art of Torture
Tag: death metal
An album inspired by ultrahorror films! Both Flower of Flesh and Blood and A meia-noite levarei sua alma are films that inspire me.
2004 - Aarni - Bathos
Tag: funeral doom
The only reason I got this album is because someone tagged it as Industrial Doom. For years I thought that Industrial was my favorite genre of music (I love Velvet Acid Christ, Skinny Puppy and KMFDM, but not that much). This album also oncorporates elements of Thelema and Magick, subjects that fascinated me in the past.
2005 - Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Tag: doom metal
Thanks, because By This Axe I Rule! taught me that great metal can also afford to be self-aware and parody itself without being silly and rock harder than ever!
2006 - Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die
Tag: doom metal
Same title as the novel by Paulo Coelho, but the most badass title for an album ever!
2007 - Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Tag: death-doom metal
Twilight Innocence brings tears to my eyes, it's so beautiful, and yet it's between br00tal headbanging tracks. If I ever learned something from the original Black Sabbath is that Metal always had a place for ballads, Solitude and Changes being perfect examples of this. (of course, the 80's brought us the power ballad, but I dare you to say that 18 and Life does not rock)
2008 - Ataraxie - Anhédonie
Tag: funeral doom
Avide de sens may last 20 minutes, but I can listen to it again and again. The song that made me buy an Ipod, so I could scrobble while in the street.
2009 -
Friday, February 13, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Thirteen songs called 'Solitude'
13.- Solitude - Black Sabbath
Tag: heavy metal
Oh where can I go to and what can I do?
Nothing can please me only thoughts are of you
You just laughed when I begged you to stay
Ive not stopped crying since you went away
The world is a lonely place - youre on your own
Guess I will go home - sit down and moan.
Crying and thinking is all that I do
Memories I have remind me of you
In the middle of the Stoner/Sludge/Doom Masterpiece Master of Reality there is an island of sadness, a place to remind us that the affair with pleasure leads to loneliness. True Metal understands the necessity of being alone, The Metalhead is a lone wolf, hunting alone, suffering alone, but sharing the glory with others.
Covered by:
12.- Solitude - Cathedral
Tag: doom metal
Cathedral would go a conventional way in covering the Sabbath masterpiece, every chord, every syllable is where it should be, as correct as it is it might be unnecessary, as this cover adds nothing to the original.
11.- Solitude - Ulver
Tag: avant garde
Ulver integrates this song seamlessly into its seminal Shadows of the Sun. when a cover seems done by the artist performing it then and only then it can be a good cover. All the pain of the original is there, all the understanding.
10.- Solitudo (Solitude) - Rondellus
Tag: medieval
Rondellus makes a monster work in translating the Black Sabbath originals to Latin and then singing them in choruses. A delightful work.
9.- Solitude - Death in June
Tag: apocalyptic folk
Not a cover. Death in June gets a new voice in David Tibet for this track.
8.- Solitude - Intaglio
Tag: funeral doom
Not a cover. Intaglio follows a different solitude, the one that comes after the realization that death is inevitable and that there is no heaven nor hell awaiting.
7.- Solitude - Candlemass
Tag: doom metal
Hate is my only friend
pain is my father
torment is delight to me
Death is my sanctuary
I seek it with pleasure
Please let me die in solitude
Receive my sacrifice
my lifeblood is exhausted
no one gave love and understanding
Hear these words
vilifiers and pretenders
and please let me die in solitude
Candlemass created a masterpiece of Doom with this song, they dared defy the creators of the genre with a similar named song. Here death is not something to fear, but a release. Mortality is a theme in every song dealing with loneliness.
Covered by:
6.- Solitude - Anorexia Nervosa
Tag: symphonic black metal
The strengh of Anorexia Nervosa comes not from evil, but from the deepest suffering. As the coda of New Oscurantis Order, this track is the end of angry tears.
5.- Solitude - Desire
Tag: death doom metal
This cover has an epic stature yet unmatched; four voices, four ways to deal with the greatest sadness. the only cover with a female angelic voice surrounded by a whisper and two distinct death growls.
4.- Solitude - Pale Divine
Tag: stoner doom
A clean voice straight cover, but it has a psychedelic bridge, a way of dealing with loneliness through pleasure, the solace of drugs (Stoner is never complete without hallucinations)
3.- Solitude - Swallow the Sun
Tag: death doom metal
As this song should be performed, a clean voice crying in almost silence, giving its way to the biggest of funeral wails.
2.- Solitude -Blodsrit
Tag: black metal
The only cover in all death growls. Somehow the lack of contrast mitigates the extents that other covers have reached before.
1.- Solitude - Midgard
Tag: doom metal
A straight clean voice cover. done in sheer admiration. It appropiates the original, yet it does nothing to take it to new levels.
Tag: heavy metal
Oh where can I go to and what can I do?
Nothing can please me only thoughts are of you
You just laughed when I begged you to stay
Ive not stopped crying since you went away
The world is a lonely place - youre on your own
Guess I will go home - sit down and moan.
Crying and thinking is all that I do
Memories I have remind me of you
In the middle of the Stoner/Sludge/Doom Masterpiece Master of Reality there is an island of sadness, a place to remind us that the affair with pleasure leads to loneliness. True Metal understands the necessity of being alone, The Metalhead is a lone wolf, hunting alone, suffering alone, but sharing the glory with others.
Covered by:
12.- Solitude - Cathedral
Tag: doom metal
Cathedral would go a conventional way in covering the Sabbath masterpiece, every chord, every syllable is where it should be, as correct as it is it might be unnecessary, as this cover adds nothing to the original.
11.- Solitude - Ulver
Tag: avant garde
Ulver integrates this song seamlessly into its seminal Shadows of the Sun. when a cover seems done by the artist performing it then and only then it can be a good cover. All the pain of the original is there, all the understanding.
10.- Solitudo (Solitude) - Rondellus
Tag: medieval
Rondellus makes a monster work in translating the Black Sabbath originals to Latin and then singing them in choruses. A delightful work.
9.- Solitude - Death in June
Tag: apocalyptic folk
Not a cover. Death in June gets a new voice in David Tibet for this track.
8.- Solitude - Intaglio
Tag: funeral doom
Not a cover. Intaglio follows a different solitude, the one that comes after the realization that death is inevitable and that there is no heaven nor hell awaiting.
7.- Solitude - Candlemass
Tag: doom metal
Hate is my only friend
pain is my father
torment is delight to me
Death is my sanctuary
I seek it with pleasure
Please let me die in solitude
Receive my sacrifice
my lifeblood is exhausted
no one gave love and understanding
Hear these words
vilifiers and pretenders
and please let me die in solitude
Candlemass created a masterpiece of Doom with this song, they dared defy the creators of the genre with a similar named song. Here death is not something to fear, but a release. Mortality is a theme in every song dealing with loneliness.
Covered by:
6.- Solitude - Anorexia Nervosa
Tag: symphonic black metal
The strengh of Anorexia Nervosa comes not from evil, but from the deepest suffering. As the coda of New Oscurantis Order, this track is the end of angry tears.
5.- Solitude - Desire
Tag: death doom metal
This cover has an epic stature yet unmatched; four voices, four ways to deal with the greatest sadness. the only cover with a female angelic voice surrounded by a whisper and two distinct death growls.
4.- Solitude - Pale Divine
Tag: stoner doom
A clean voice straight cover, but it has a psychedelic bridge, a way of dealing with loneliness through pleasure, the solace of drugs (Stoner is never complete without hallucinations)
3.- Solitude - Swallow the Sun
Tag: death doom metal
As this song should be performed, a clean voice crying in almost silence, giving its way to the biggest of funeral wails.
2.- Solitude -Blodsrit
Tag: black metal
The only cover in all death growls. Somehow the lack of contrast mitigates the extents that other covers have reached before.
1.- Solitude - Midgard
Tag: doom metal
A straight clean voice cover. done in sheer admiration. It appropiates the original, yet it does nothing to take it to new levels.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
My 13 favorite songs over twenty minutes
You might find lots of funeral doom and doom metal in this list , by nature, doom is long, slow and atmospheric. The Industrial entries of the list are based on previous literary works and the Avant-garde entries are plain weird experimentation.
13.- Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin - Fantômas 1:14:17
Tag: avant-garde
Yes, this is the infamous track where the last twenty minutes is sound of a turntable stylus stuck in the runout groove of a record. Conceived as a soundtrack for a horror film, the concept of death explored is less romantic ad more proper of a Cronenberg Body horror film.
12.- Rite Of Finality - Asunder 50:23
Tag: funeral doom
Beautiful instrumental intro with added violins and clean guitars, enticing you into a sense of security were not by the bass in the background which looms like a dark cloud, then the full storm begins with death growls and epic instrumentation, then the epic falls into a gloomy dark ambiance with long and slow chords. the piece ends in utter desolation.
11.- Helio)))sophist - Sunn O))) 46:18
Tag: drone doom
As usual with Sunn O))), the droning background becomes mesmerizing, until we realize that we have been drawn to a land of sorrow and torture, with hidden horrors abound, biomechanical behemoths roaming, oblivious to the destruction wrought by their claws, a grey haze rather than darkness. the piece ends fading out to nothingness.
10.-Sacrilegium - Devil Doll 45:49
Tag: avant-garde
An energetic symphonic intro gives way to a choral chanting "Sacrilegium", gloomy cabaret tunes, prog-rock instrumentals, music boxes and a singing narration in a cornucopia of emotions, the piece ends with some sampling and a backmasked message.
9.-Somnium Obmutum - Estatic Fear 32:09
Tag: symphonic doom
A slow and heavy riff in a nocturnal ambient, a doom melody that gives way to a piano intermezzo before returning to the death growls, the true essence of Doom is this counterbalance, soothing vs. neurotic, the riff accompanies us in this trip through calmness and despair.
8.- Macbeth - Laibach
Tags: industrial, martial industrial 31:59
A Soundtrack based on the play by Shakespeare. Some listings separate it in tracks whileas others list it as one song. I list it as one, as the march in the introduction is revisited and expanded in the latter art of the album (I know, as a self-contained album it features leitmotivs)
7.- Die Hamletmaschine - Einstürzende Neubauten 31:47
Tag: industrial
More than a soundtrack for the play by Heiner Müller, it features the complete text of the play, this is the complete performing experience, the voices of the characters are there, Hamlet and Ofelia. As the previous Shakespeare reinterpretation, this is a timeless piece from its own world where the same rules apply to tragedies.
6.- Demontain - Ufomammut 28:07
Tag: stoner doom
Ufomammut's psychedelic grooves are given plenty of room to breathe, heaviness and soothing ambients are balanced, you could say that all of Ufomammut's tricks are here.
5.- The Garden - Cathedral 26:59
Tag: doom metal
Classical doomsters understand the scope of long compositions and in this case Cathedral takes the opportunity to paint a Hieronymous Bosch-like garden with all colors available, a female voice, seemingly out of place, introduces us to this epic 9 part tragicomedy of glory and decay, from birth to death.
4.- Avide de sens - Ataraxie 24:00
Tag: funeral doom
An ending that never seems to end, the main riff could otherwise be use as the ending of any other song, but this is just the beginning. When I listen to this song walking down the street there is a kind of background droning sound that makes me think there is something behind me. (my favorite time to listen Funeral Doom is walking while it rains), the calm places just seem to enhance the despair-filled growls that ensue, the energy level is greater and stronger, the piece ends in a slow decay at ties to the next song.
3.-Funeral of Mankind - Night Must Fall 22:24
Tag: funeral doom
If all of mankind is being buried and we're attending the funeral, who's growling at us?
Inhuman rituals and chants, hidden entities, mankind has receded to be replaced by others, were they human once? were they born that way?
2.-Missing - Until Death Overtakes Me 21:43
Tag: funeral doom
A delicate dirge before meeting the denizens of the grave, the dead have some excellent taste on the music they choose for their own wakes.
1.-Cirith Ungol - Reverend Bizarre 21:10
Tag: doom metal
Tolkien inspired despair, it follows Sam and Frodo through Cirith Ungol, it describes the death and decay they encounter while trying to grasp to the tiniest of hopes. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh Burzum-ishi krimpatul.
13.- Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin - Fantômas 1:14:17
Tag: avant-garde
Yes, this is the infamous track where the last twenty minutes is sound of a turntable stylus stuck in the runout groove of a record. Conceived as a soundtrack for a horror film, the concept of death explored is less romantic ad more proper of a Cronenberg Body horror film.
12.- Rite Of Finality - Asunder 50:23
Tag: funeral doom
Beautiful instrumental intro with added violins and clean guitars, enticing you into a sense of security were not by the bass in the background which looms like a dark cloud, then the full storm begins with death growls and epic instrumentation, then the epic falls into a gloomy dark ambiance with long and slow chords. the piece ends in utter desolation.
11.- Helio)))sophist - Sunn O))) 46:18
Tag: drone doom
As usual with Sunn O))), the droning background becomes mesmerizing, until we realize that we have been drawn to a land of sorrow and torture, with hidden horrors abound, biomechanical behemoths roaming, oblivious to the destruction wrought by their claws, a grey haze rather than darkness. the piece ends fading out to nothingness.
10.-Sacrilegium - Devil Doll 45:49
Tag: avant-garde
An energetic symphonic intro gives way to a choral chanting "Sacrilegium", gloomy cabaret tunes, prog-rock instrumentals, music boxes and a singing narration in a cornucopia of emotions, the piece ends with some sampling and a backmasked message.
9.-Somnium Obmutum - Estatic Fear 32:09
Tag: symphonic doom
A slow and heavy riff in a nocturnal ambient, a doom melody that gives way to a piano intermezzo before returning to the death growls, the true essence of Doom is this counterbalance, soothing vs. neurotic, the riff accompanies us in this trip through calmness and despair.
8.- Macbeth - Laibach
Tags: industrial, martial industrial 31:59
A Soundtrack based on the play by Shakespeare. Some listings separate it in tracks whileas others list it as one song. I list it as one, as the march in the introduction is revisited and expanded in the latter art of the album (I know, as a self-contained album it features leitmotivs)
7.- Die Hamletmaschine - Einstürzende Neubauten 31:47
Tag: industrial
More than a soundtrack for the play by Heiner Müller, it features the complete text of the play, this is the complete performing experience, the voices of the characters are there, Hamlet and Ofelia. As the previous Shakespeare reinterpretation, this is a timeless piece from its own world where the same rules apply to tragedies.
6.- Demontain - Ufomammut 28:07
Tag: stoner doom
Ufomammut's psychedelic grooves are given plenty of room to breathe, heaviness and soothing ambients are balanced, you could say that all of Ufomammut's tricks are here.
5.- The Garden - Cathedral 26:59
Tag: doom metal
Classical doomsters understand the scope of long compositions and in this case Cathedral takes the opportunity to paint a Hieronymous Bosch-like garden with all colors available, a female voice, seemingly out of place, introduces us to this epic 9 part tragicomedy of glory and decay, from birth to death.
4.- Avide de sens - Ataraxie 24:00
Tag: funeral doom
An ending that never seems to end, the main riff could otherwise be use as the ending of any other song, but this is just the beginning. When I listen to this song walking down the street there is a kind of background droning sound that makes me think there is something behind me. (my favorite time to listen Funeral Doom is walking while it rains), the calm places just seem to enhance the despair-filled growls that ensue, the energy level is greater and stronger, the piece ends in a slow decay at ties to the next song.
3.-Funeral of Mankind - Night Must Fall 22:24
Tag: funeral doom
If all of mankind is being buried and we're attending the funeral, who's growling at us?
Inhuman rituals and chants, hidden entities, mankind has receded to be replaced by others, were they human once? were they born that way?
2.-Missing - Until Death Overtakes Me 21:43
Tag: funeral doom
A delicate dirge before meeting the denizens of the grave, the dead have some excellent taste on the music they choose for their own wakes.
1.-Cirith Ungol - Reverend Bizarre 21:10
Tag: doom metal
Tolkien inspired despair, it follows Sam and Frodo through Cirith Ungol, it describes the death and decay they encounter while trying to grasp to the tiniest of hopes. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh Burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
My Thirteen Favorite Doom songs
* Whore - 13
Tag:sludge doom
Unapologetic, dirty female death growls.
13 Norge - Thorr's Hammer
Tag: death-doom metal
Atmospheric, gloomy and romantic. I have yet to find another doom song where the female clean vocals are more evil and spooky than the death growls (also female) in the foreground.
12 Sea Hag - Burning Witch
Tag: funeral doom
Hag-like death growls chanting of despair in a definitive funeral ocean.
11 Solitary Fallen Angel - Left Hand Solution
Tag:doom metal
He rides a pitch-black unicorn
Wishing he was never born
Melancholic dirge in two voices, a clean female voice against a delicate female chant.
10 Penta Imperium (Doom Empire Version), Penta Imperium (Sick Funeral Version) - Aura HiemiS
Tag: doom metal
Covered by: Dadelos Anrete Anu Ed Larenuf
Don´t you leave me
Don´t you leave me alone,
I can give you
All what you are seeking
A cry of despair in two versions, one just before and other after the grave, the Doom Empire version features clean, passionate male vocals while the Sick Funeral version features a gloomy death growl.
9 The Hour Of Death - Reverend Bizarre
Tag:doom metal
My God have mercy upon me in this hour of death I pray for thee to take my life instead of the one I so dearly love
A heavy and oppressing riff that could easily compete with entry number one of this list. A long landscape that borders in Funeral Doom were not for the clean and powerful male voice.
8 Rain and Twilight Innocence - Novembers Doom
Tag:death-doom metal
The Only way to cleanse my soul is drown my dirt with rain
Your dreams inspire me to be the best man I can be
Rain is a heavy metal storm, the death growl never rests, a monster opening for The Novella Reservoir, a dense death-doom atmosphere were not for a small calm paradise in the middle of the song, that foreshadows the inclusion of Twilight Innocence, a gentle ballad amidst the brutality of the rest of the album. This is a song that I would play for the woman I marry, definitively.
7 Christian Woman - Type O Negative
Tag:gothic-doom metal
Covered by: Graveworm
For her lust she'll burn in hell, her soul done medium well
In my opinion, the true spirit of doom lies in complex musical landscapes, both frantic and laconic. In this song the struggle of spirituality and carnaLity paint an internal monologue told in clean, almost sarcastic vocals and a male chorus.
6 Dying Inside - Saint Vitus
Tag:stoner doom
I can't control my addiction
I've tried time and time again
I'm losing all my friends and lovers
Alcohol knows it's gonna win
The original Doom has also addiction at its core, not only ontological depression, but the cry of an unromantic addict; the alcoholic.
The male vocals are not grandiose, but dead honest and self-deprecating.
5 Your River - My Dying Bride
Tag:doom metal
It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers.
Your river holds a feast of danger.
The suffering you have had to bear.
Though My Dying Bride continued down the way of Gothic Metal, Turn Loose the Swans is a Doom Metal opus, a complex introduction leading to an explosive confession. The path that the clean male vocals follow are that of depression.
4 The Cry of Silence - Draconian
Tag:gothic doom metal
I have a thousand reasons to die and many million tears to cry
Romantic and gloomy, a conversation between a clean male voice, a female vocal and a death growl, the length and the complexity create a landscape of infinite sadness.
3 Seeds of the Desolate - Solitude Aeturnus
Mirror of Sorrow - Solitude Aeturnus
Tag:doom metal
Covered by:Worship
A beautiful mirror of radiant splendor
As ominous as the autumn moon
It brought upon me endless wonder
Yet spoke of some unknown doom
A beautiful Doom ballad, melancholy abound, an almost lovecraftian lament. Clean and passionate male vocals bring frenzy to the quiet waters.
2 Solitude - Candlemass
Covered By: Swallow the Sun, Anorexia Nervosa, Desire, Blodsrit
Tag:doom metal
I'm sitting here alone in darkness waiting to be free lonely and forlorn I am crying I long for my time to go death is just life Please let me die in solitude
The definitive Doom metal hymn, here every element pertaining to Doom is properly crafted, every band covering it has added a layer of dimension to the original.
1 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Covered by:Amber Asylum, Type O Negative, Wraith of the Ropes, Throne of Ahaz, Iced Earth, Sabbra Cadabra, Ad Hominem,
Here is where it all started, the riff that defines heavy metal, the riff that, if Tommi Iommi had not hurt his fingers and downtuned his guitar would have created a parallel, metalless universe. The original gloom and passion brought by an impossibly young Ozzy. The parameter from which every pother band is and will be measured.
Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
Covered by:Isis, Orange Goblin, Slayer, Eyehategod, HIM, Cephalic Carnage
Tag: proto-doom
Would the genre be called Sabbath Metal were not for this song?
Tag:sludge doom
Unapologetic, dirty female death growls.
13 Norge - Thorr's Hammer
Tag: death-doom metal
Atmospheric, gloomy and romantic. I have yet to find another doom song where the female clean vocals are more evil and spooky than the death growls (also female) in the foreground.
12 Sea Hag - Burning Witch
Tag: funeral doom
Hag-like death growls chanting of despair in a definitive funeral ocean.
11 Solitary Fallen Angel - Left Hand Solution
Tag:doom metal
He rides a pitch-black unicorn
Wishing he was never born
Melancholic dirge in two voices, a clean female voice against a delicate female chant.
10 Penta Imperium (Doom Empire Version), Penta Imperium (Sick Funeral Version) - Aura HiemiS
Tag: doom metal
Covered by: Dadelos Anrete Anu Ed Larenuf
Don´t you leave me
Don´t you leave me alone,
I can give you
All what you are seeking
A cry of despair in two versions, one just before and other after the grave, the Doom Empire version features clean, passionate male vocals while the Sick Funeral version features a gloomy death growl.
9 The Hour Of Death - Reverend Bizarre
Tag:doom metal
My God have mercy upon me in this hour of death I pray for thee to take my life instead of the one I so dearly love
A heavy and oppressing riff that could easily compete with entry number one of this list. A long landscape that borders in Funeral Doom were not for the clean and powerful male voice.
8 Rain and Twilight Innocence - Novembers Doom
Tag:death-doom metal
The Only way to cleanse my soul is drown my dirt with rain
Your dreams inspire me to be the best man I can be
Rain is a heavy metal storm, the death growl never rests, a monster opening for The Novella Reservoir, a dense death-doom atmosphere were not for a small calm paradise in the middle of the song, that foreshadows the inclusion of Twilight Innocence, a gentle ballad amidst the brutality of the rest of the album. This is a song that I would play for the woman I marry, definitively.
7 Christian Woman - Type O Negative
Tag:gothic-doom metal
Covered by: Graveworm
For her lust she'll burn in hell, her soul done medium well
In my opinion, the true spirit of doom lies in complex musical landscapes, both frantic and laconic. In this song the struggle of spirituality and carnaLity paint an internal monologue told in clean, almost sarcastic vocals and a male chorus.
6 Dying Inside - Saint Vitus
Tag:stoner doom
I can't control my addiction
I've tried time and time again
I'm losing all my friends and lovers
Alcohol knows it's gonna win
The original Doom has also addiction at its core, not only ontological depression, but the cry of an unromantic addict; the alcoholic.
The male vocals are not grandiose, but dead honest and self-deprecating.
5 Your River - My Dying Bride
Tag:doom metal
It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers.
Your river holds a feast of danger.
The suffering you have had to bear.
Though My Dying Bride continued down the way of Gothic Metal, Turn Loose the Swans is a Doom Metal opus, a complex introduction leading to an explosive confession. The path that the clean male vocals follow are that of depression.
4 The Cry of Silence - Draconian
Tag:gothic doom metal
I have a thousand reasons to die and many million tears to cry
Romantic and gloomy, a conversation between a clean male voice, a female vocal and a death growl, the length and the complexity create a landscape of infinite sadness.
3 Seeds of the Desolate - Solitude Aeturnus
Mirror of Sorrow - Solitude Aeturnus
Tag:doom metal
Covered by:Worship
A beautiful mirror of radiant splendor
As ominous as the autumn moon
It brought upon me endless wonder
Yet spoke of some unknown doom
A beautiful Doom ballad, melancholy abound, an almost lovecraftian lament. Clean and passionate male vocals bring frenzy to the quiet waters.
2 Solitude - Candlemass
Covered By: Swallow the Sun, Anorexia Nervosa, Desire, Blodsrit
Tag:doom metal
I'm sitting here alone in darkness waiting to be free lonely and forlorn I am crying I long for my time to go death is just life Please let me die in solitude
The definitive Doom metal hymn, here every element pertaining to Doom is properly crafted, every band covering it has added a layer of dimension to the original.
1 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Covered by:Amber Asylum, Type O Negative, Wraith of the Ropes, Throne of Ahaz, Iced Earth, Sabbra Cadabra, Ad Hominem,
Here is where it all started, the riff that defines heavy metal, the riff that, if Tommi Iommi had not hurt his fingers and downtuned his guitar would have created a parallel, metalless universe. The original gloom and passion brought by an impossibly young Ozzy. The parameter from which every pother band is and will be measured.
Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
Covered by:Isis, Orange Goblin, Slayer, Eyehategod, HIM, Cephalic Carnage
Tag: proto-doom
Would the genre be called Sabbath Metal were not for this song?
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