It's always the same riff? the same bass? for some reason you can't stop listening to it? it's appealing. The whole sound summons you into a spiral, a void? It's always the same thing, over and over again... it's driving you crazy, demented? it's so loud that you'll beg for someone to kill you. But the music won't let it! The music is up to kill from the inside, it's your soul it wants! That chord, trembling over and over again? ''please kill me? please for the love of God, somebody kill me!!! I can't stand it anymore!''
In the end, that music? it took an eternity to end and it was only 25 minutes long? Somewhere in between, you ended up a corpse on a chair, your arms down, your head right-sided with the head-phones on, and darkened empty eyes? It killed your soul. Sshhh? listen? the phones? it's still droning? over and over and over and over?


Drone Metal? very slow music, very slow moods, very slow images, very slow? everything!
Before its appearance in the Heavy Metal realm, drone music first started off side by side with ambient music, instrumental experiments, shoegaze landscapes or some sub-genres of electronic music overall. ''Stars Of The Lid'', ''Birchville Cat Motel'' or ''Emeralds'' are a few just to name some of those artists.
Inevitably, Heavy Metal, with its several sub-genre branches, eventually started to mix drone music within its heavy sound. Doom Metal, the extreme one, is commonly known to be the most combined sub-genre, but drone music managed to ''mingle'' with tones of other metal-a-like tunes, like post-rock, noise, stoner, industrial or black, and nowadays mostly with sludge, as some already started to name it as the 3rd wave of Drone Metal. As a matter of fact, this research offered me the experience of knowing very ''odd'' bands that I didn't know they existed, whose sound is blended with several different music kinds, as I was undoubtedly blown away with their music, being ''Monarch!'', ''Echoes Of Yul'', ''Hyatari'' or ''Menace Ruine'' JUST to name a few! So those of you who thought Drone Metal was only Sunn O))), Earth or Boris? well, you better think twice and dive into this ''encyclopedia''!
This chronological list features the studio recordings i consider unquestionably, essential to any Drone Metal fan. From the purists to the slightly interested ones, and for the drone beginners, I believe this will suit you all. Enjoy!

Created by:

Tiago Rocha | 24.09.2010

	1.	Melvins - Lysol 1992
	2.	Earth - Earth 2 - Special Low Frequency Version 1993
	3.	Earth - Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions 1995
	4.	Boris - Absolutego 1996
	5.	Thrones - Alraune 1996
	6.	Corrupted - Paso Inferior 1997
	7.	Hash Jar Tempo - Well Oiled 1997
	8.	Boris - Amplifier Worship 1998
	9.	Sunn O))) - The Grimmrobe Demos 1999
	10.	Corrupted - Llenandose De Gusanos 1999
	11.	Boris - Flood 2000
	12.	The Angelic Process - ...And Your Blood Is Full Of Honey 2001
	13.	Khanate - Khanate 2001
	14.	Old Man Gloom - Seminar III: Zozobra 2001
	15.	Nadja - Touched 2002
	16.	Hlidolf - V01D 2002
	17.	Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine - Rampton 2002
	18.	Sunn O))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 2002
	19.	Boris - Boris At Last - Feedbacker 2003
	20.	The Angelic Process - Coma Waering 2003
	21.	Khanate - Things Viral 2003
	22.	Nadja - Corrasion 2003
	23.	Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos 2004
	24.	Jesu - Jesu 2004
	25.	Bunkur - Bludgeon 2004
	26.	Sunn O))) - White2 2004
	27.	Moss - Cthonic Rites 2005
	28.	Nadja - Body Cage 2005
	29.	Om - Variations On A Theme 2005
	30.	Asva - Futurists Against The Ocean 2005
	31.	Monarch - 666 2005
	32.	Earth - HEX; Or Printing In The Infernal Method 2005
	33.	Hyatari - The Light Carriers 2005
	34.	Corrupted - El Mundo Frio 2005
	35.	Sunn O))) - Black One 2005
	36.	Nadja - Truth Becomes Death 2005
	37.	Black Boned Angel - Bliss And Void Inseparable 2006
	38.	Hjarnidaudi - Pain:Noise:March 2006
	39.	Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights 2006
	40.	Khlyst - Chaos Is My Name 2006
	41.	Sunn O))) - Altar [Collaboration] 2006
	42.	Nadja - Thaumogenesis 2007
	43.	Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere - D.R.O.N.E.R.E.X.I.A. 2007
	44.	Earth - Hibernaculum 2007
	45.	Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream 2007
	46.	The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 2007
	47.	Bloody Panda - Pheromone 2007
	48.	Jesu - Conqueror 2007
	49.	Nadja - Radiance Of Shadows 2007
	50.	Menace Ruine - The Die Is Cast 2008
	51.	Black Boned Angel - The Endless Coming Into Life 2008
	52.	Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier 2008
	53.	Monarch - Mer Morte 2008
	54.	Moss - Sub Templum 2008
	55.	Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull 2008
	56.	Hyatari - They Will Surface 2008
	57.	Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness 2008
	58.	Bloody Panda - Summon 2009
	59.	Black Boned Angel - Verdun 2009
	60.	Greymachine - Disconnected 2009
	61.	Echoes Of Yul - Echoes Of Yul 2009
	62.	Hjarnidaudi - Psyko:Stare:Void 2009
	63.	Bunkur - Nullify 2009
	64.	Nadja - Nadja / Black Boned Angel [Collaboration] 2009
	65.	Menace Ruine - Union Of Irreconcilables 2010