Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Doom Metal is one of those genres that I'd never really taken much notice of until I started working my way through the MS top 200 albums. I'd listened to Black Sabbath when a teacher at my school gave me his copy of Paranoid to borrow around 2007/08, which I highly enjoyed! Over the last few years I've discovered so many great doom metal bands such as Slumber, Doom:VS, October Tide and Swallow the Sun.
So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:
(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)
If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of doom metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!
My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)
So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:
(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)
If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of doom metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!
My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)
Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Are there any must-listens I'm missing here? I've listened to Anathema, Paradise Lost, Katatonia and Estatic Fear - all good bands but I didn't enjoy them quite enough to make this list.
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Posts: 1376 Written by F3ynman on 18.03.2024 at 10:52 I don't see why not. What did you have in mind?
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Posts: 1376 Written by F3ynman on 18.03.2024 at 11:23 Dopethrone is pretty good, I didn't enjoy it enough to be on this list though. I've heard a couple of High on Fire albums but I'll check that one out!
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I agree with both of F3ynman's recs and also as always, here are some of mine: Horn Of The Rhino - Weight Of Coronation Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium Eyehategod - In The Name Of Suffering Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale Domkraft - The End Of Electricity Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer Warhorse - As Heaven Turns To Ash Ufomammut - Snailking The Sword - Age Of Winters Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom Horn Of The Rhino - Summoning Deliverance There would be more but that's a good start I think? And I didn't include any of the bands you mentionned in your first post and also I believe none of them are in your "overrated" list  . Most of those are also infused with Stoner & Sludge tbh.
---- - Headbanging with mostly clogged arteries to that stuff - Guib's List Of Essential Albums - Also Thrash Paradise Thrash Here
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Posts: 1376 Written by Guib on 18.03.2024 at 14:16 The only one I've heard here is Age of Winters, which is a great album! Thanks for these, when I'm in the mood for Doom/Stoner I know where to look 
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Posts: 3528 Written by nonZero on 19.03.2024 at 12:22 Always a pleasure to help!
---- - Headbanging with mostly clogged arteries to that stuff - Guib's List Of Essential Albums - Also Thrash Paradise Thrash Here
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Oh I just noticed the lack of Kypck! Have you listened to them before?
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I like the list here and I'll check out some of the unheard albums for sure. But that Slumber album, it never gets old for me. I wish they record one more album before my death bed.
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Nice list! There’s many here I need to check out! Here’s some of my favorites as well: Giant Squid- Metridium Fields Karyn Crisis' Gospel Of The Witches -Salem’s Wounds Obscure Sphinx- Void Mother Hallatar- No Stars Upon the Bridge Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree- Grandmother The 3rd And The Mortal- Tears Laid in Earth Blood Ceremony- Living with the Ancients The Answer Lies In The Black Void- Forlorn Maybe you’ll like some of these if you haven’t heard them 
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Posts: 2779 Written by Vellichor on 24.03.2024 at 15:32 Good to see there are still people out there today who are aware of this beauty of an album.
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Posts: 71 Written by nonZero on 18.03.2024 at 10:12 What a great list - very much my doomish tastes as well. Regarding the bands mentioned in your comment I'm completely with you regarding Katatonia - I just can't get into it as well. But...had a similar opinion re Anathema and Paradise Lost long time ago...until I've seen them playing live. Since then it somehow clicked for me big time and for sure they would make it into my doomish top-list now  They say "the experience is not transferable" but maybe it could work for you as well? Plus one recommendation I missed in this thread - they might not be hailed as a typical doom representatives but some borderline names have been mentioned here already AND they evoke sort of mood irrevocably (for me at least) = In the Woods...
---- “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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