I'm relatively knew to the genre and have just gotten into it through bands like Esoteric, Shape of Despaor and Swallow the sun.
I would like to get further into this genre and reccomendations would be much appreciated.

Written by whatsacow on 19.03.2010 at 02:51

I'm relatively knew to the genre and have just gotten into it through bands like Esoteric, Shape of Despaor and Swallow the sun.
I would like to get further into this genre and reccomendations would be much appreciated.

Try this here http://www.metalstorm.ee/forum/topic.php?topic_id=411

Yarp, you want the funeral doom thread which, illogically, is in the melodic metal forum and the drone thread (further down from this post on this forum).

Meanwhile, check out Burning Witch, Khanate, Asunder, Evoken, Catacombs, Hyatari, Hjarnidaudi etc.

My immediate suggestion is simply to check out the MS 2009 awards - extreme doom category, and using our archive system, do likewise with prior years.

some suggestions of mine:

Ahab - either of their albums are fucking brilliant.
Profetus - Coronation of the Black Sun ('09)
Colosseum - II - Numquam was the Staff ED pick this year, as with Ahab, their first album is great as well.
Process Of Guilt - Erosion ('09) (won staff "regular" doom, but sort of straddles the line for me, def extreme vocals)
Skepticism - Alloy ('08)
Norrt - Gudsforladt

and send Marcel a pm. he'll bombard you with more extreme doom than your pathetic, wretched soul will be able to withstand.

Please never ever call Swallow The Sun extreme doom again hahaha

Just goign through my collection at a glance I came across the following for you, besides the bands mentioned earlier:

Winter
Coffins
Graves At Sea
dot (.)
Mournful Congregation
Wreck Of The Hesperus
Moss
Atavist
Thorr's Hammer
Horus
Ataraxie
Imindain
Bethlehem (though a mix of black and doom)
Otesanek
Persistence In Mourning
The Funeral Orchestra
Runemagick
Corrupted
Acid Witch (though almost more death metal)
Hooded Menace
Zoraster
Highgate
Aldebaran
Volition
Unearthly Trance
Bunkur
DoomThrone
Funeralium
Stabat Mater
Amen Ra
The Arm And Sword Of A Bastard God
Comatose Vigil
Grudge
Anatomia
Deinonychus
Fleshpress
Dolorian
Forgotten Tomb
Earth
The Ethereal
Loss
Longing For Dawn
Monolithe
Indesinence
When The Deadbolt Breaks
Rote Mare (some of the stuff is extreme doom)
Mourning Dawn
Insanity Reigns Supreme
Paganus
Depresed Mode (first one)
Faal
Despond
Thergethon
Unholy
Ophis
Beyond Black Void
Sol (first one)
The Knell
The Angelic Process (not sure if it doom but imo it does fit in here)
Until Death Overtakes Me
Umbra Nihil
Disembowelment
Fatum Elisum (borderline extreme)
Nadja
Night Of Suicide
Eight Hands Of Kali
Doom: Vs (borderline extreme)
Castle
Spina Bifida
Grieving Age (borderline extreme)
Orthodox
Arcana Coelestia
Urna
Torture Wheel
Wraith Of The Ropes
Rigor Sardonicous
Night Must Fall
Black Shape Of Nexus (aka B.Son)
Culted
The Austrasian Goat

Here are some other bands worth checking out

Persistence In Mourning
Intaglio
Auaesuve
Funerary Dirge
Reido
Towards Darkness
Longing for Dawn
Wijlen Wij
Solarfall
Nivathe/Senthil
Urna
Ea
Comatose Vigil
Во Скорбях (Vo Skorbyah)
Откровения Дождя (Otkroveniya Dozhdya)
Ankhagram
Autumnia
Abstract Spirit

Written by BitterCOld on 19.03.2010 at 06:04


and send Marcel a pm. he'll bombard you with more extreme doom than your pathetic, wretched soul will be able to withstand.

wow. that wasn't an understatement.
thanks for the suggestions. i think i have enough to get me through for a while.

Written by whatsacow on 23.03.2010 at 04:16

Written by BitterCOld on 19.03.2010 at 06:04


and send Marcel a pm. he'll bombard you with more extreme doom than your pathetic, wretched soul will be able to withstand.

wow. that wasn't an understatement.
thanks for the suggestions. i think i have enough to get me through for a while.

he's a doom pusher.

Written by BitterCOld on 23.03.2010 at 05:01

Written by whatsacow on 23.03.2010 at 04:16

Written by BitterCOld on 19.03.2010 at 06:04


and send Marcel a pm. he'll bombard you with more extreme doom than your pathetic, wretched soul will be able to withstand.

wow. that wasn't an understatement.
thanks for the suggestions. i think i have enough to get me through for a while.

he's a doom pusher.

really? i hadn't noticed. theres only 80 or so bands listed. but they are awesome, so yeah.

Marcel's list say all, I read it and whit out deep thinking can not edd anything here, sohis list is best

I realize I did forget to mention Ea and Wijlen Wij but thankfully Brendan mentioned them.

And just to add a few more, I'll say that Fungoid Stream, Zaraza, and Wormphlegm, 1000 Funerals (ehh, not that extreme sounding though), and Hierophant.

I seriously tried to think of a band that Marcel didn't mention, but I failed Leaving aside the fact that I have never heard most of these bands

Written by spirit_inblack on 24.03.2010 at 05:46

And just to add a few more, I'll say that Fungoid Stream, Zaraza, and Wormphlegm, 1000 Funerals (ehh, not that extreme sounding though), and Hierophant.

Wormphlegm are certainly worth it too. Forgot to mention them since I don't own their vinyl only release. And that one is impossible to get hold of now, anyways. Btw, I also forgot to mention Funeral Moth, good band. Never liked Fungoid Stream though. As for Hierophant, I consider that the same as Catacombs

Written by Daniell on 24.03.2010 at 16:29

I seriously tried to think of a band that Marcel didn't mention, but I failed Leaving aside the fact that I have never heard most of these bands

I think Marcel didn mention band who' will form in in future, because seems he mention all important bands in genre and even whit doom-metal.com its almoust not possible tell who's missing 99% bandsd are here

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.03.2010 at 18:44

Written by spirit_inblack on 24.03.2010 at 05:46

And just to add a few more, I'll say that Fungoid Stream, Zaraza, and Wormphlegm, 1000 Funerals (ehh, not that extreme sounding though), and Hierophant.

Wormphlegm are certainly worth it too. Forgot to mention them since I don't own their vinyl only release. And that one is impossible to get hold of now, anyways. Btw, I also forgot to mention Funeral Moth, good band. Never liked Fungoid Stream though. As for Hierophant, I consider that the same as Catacombs

Yeah, they're one in the same. And now that I think of it, may as well lump in P.H.O.B.O.S. as well. I'm definitely checking that Funeral Moth band too, since I usually love the more extreme Asian metal bands.

Nivathe - Enveloped In A Diseased Abyss (review right here.)

A side-project of 'Plague', one of the guys in Senthil. Nivathe offers a sickening mix of Black metal, Funeral Doomish tones, and bits and pieces of Noise and Ambient. It's all pretty... sick. Recommended.

EDIT: Btw Marcel should be banned for posting such a list. Give some descriptions, man.

Errrm.... I'll go suck my own dick a bit more and do some additional self-promotion. Here's an article I wrote a while ago, with some of my favourite 'sick' bands. Not all of it is Funeral/Extreme doom, but you should be able to find something to your liking there.

Article "Welcome To My Nightmare... (An Introduction To The Sick And Twisted)"

Hi!
Doom metal became to my fav genres about one years ago or little more...
My favourites are (at the moment):
Novembre
Autumnal
The Howling Void
(Check them, all of these three are very special, unique and genious imo!)
Anathema
(momently just) old My Dying Bride, Katatonia's Brave... (I don't know many of their albums yet)
...

Oh, and of course Opeth and Amorphis, if we say they've got place at here... But I think both's earlier works were progressive doom/death metal albums. (If we take them into a category, I think this's the right choose.)

I don't know the 3 bands you mention, but Anathema, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Opeth and Amorphis can't really be called extreme doom mate. Opeth and Amorphis have never played doom at all. Amorphis's debut, "The Karelian Isthmus" is just a melodic take on Scandinavian death metal (as good as it is of course), while Opeth has always played a mix of death metal and progressive metal, with prog being the most prominent (at least in my humble opinion).

Written by Daniell on 21.06.2010 at 13:58

I don't know the 3 bands you mention, but Anathema, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Opeth and Amorphis can't really be called extreme doom mate. Opeth and Amorphis have never played doom at all. Amorphis's debut, "The Karelian Isthmus" is just a melodic take on Scandinavian death metal (as good as it is of course), while Opeth has always played a mix of death metal and progressive metal, with prog being the most prominent (at least in my humble opinion).

Same about Novembre its Italian vesrion about Opeth

Um...trying really hard here to think of a band that hasn't been mentioned.

Tyranny

I'll add more if I can think of it but so far it looks like this has been covered pretty well. Also, why the hell do people think it necessary to mention Opeth for just about every rec thread? The day someone suggests them as a solid NWOBHM act is the day I die.

What is the best Extreme Doom album for 2010?

Written by Guest on 09.02.2011 at 12:41

What is the best Extreme Doom album for 2010?

we will see on March 1

I liked Fungoid Stream's Oceanus best, I think. I'm fairly sure it won't win the awards, but something just clicked with that album.

That said, the MS Awards nominees are all worth checking out. Ophis and Svart are especially great.

Written by IronAngel on 09.02.2011 at 13:06

I liked Fungoid Stream's Oceanus best, I think. I'm fairly sure it won't win the awards, but something just clicked with that album.

That said, the MS Awards nominees are all worth checking out. Ophis and Svart are especially great.

My favourite, though not too original, is Ophis, damn the intensity and that drumming and especially the production. Fungoid Stream is great too

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 09.02.2011 at 13:09

Written by IronAngel on 09.02.2011 at 13:06

I liked Fungoid Stream's Oceanus best, I think. I'm fairly sure it won't win the awards, but something just clicked with that album.

That said, the MS Awards nominees are all worth checking out. Ophis and Svart are especially great.

My favourite, though not too original, is Ophis, damn the intensity and that drumming and especially the production. Fungoid Stream is great too

Mine too

I really like Swallow the Sun, Ahab and Shape of Despair so would recommend them.

I can see the huge fucking list that Marcel is going to post.




PS: Sorry my fella Luneth, but I don't see STS or SOD as being extreme at all. That's just me I guess. Shape Of Despair is still pretty damn good though.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.02.2011 at 18:31

I can see the huge fucking list that Marcel is going to post.




PS: Sorry my fella Luneth, but I don't see STS or SOD as being extreme at all. That's just me I guess. Shape Of Despair is still pretty damn good though.

Can't really say otherwise, I don't know too much about the genre, what defines extreme doom?

Written by Guest on 09.02.2011 at 18:35

Can't really say otherwise, I don't know too much about the genre, what defines extreme doom?

Well, out of the three you mentioned I would say that Ahab is a bit more extreme. But that's why I love about Doom you know... the meaning of extreme is a bit blurry and since Doom is a genre heavily based on atmosphere... It depends if the atmosphere is extreme to you.

I personally see Ahabs debut to be quite extreme, I really felt the pressure of the ocean and the fearful beast that was the white whale... Not to mention that I can't swim very well and I'm a bit scared about drowning and stuff so I have deep respect for the ocean... So for me that album was a bit of a schock at first, in the good sense of the word.

I wouldn't see Shape Of Despair as extreme due to the extremely beautiful atmosphere (imo) that SOD creates, it's a sad one indeed but very pretty and elegant. I don't really like STS but they remains me to some My Dying Bride stuff and both bands seems to safe and not heavy to create a dangerous feeling of doom.

Probably that's the way I would put it: I don't feel the DOOM... That feeling when you know you have lost the battle that is life... I don't really feel it in those two bands for example, probably Shape Of Despair but they do it in a pretty way But bands like Catacombs, Esoteric, Ahab, Acid Bath, Bloody Panda, Dolorian, Early Katatonia, Khanate among others really make you feel tiny. But that's just me.