History Main / DoomMetal

At the beginning of the nineties, the band Cathedral released their debut album ''Forest of Equilibrium'', which fused doom metal with more aesthetics from extreme metal, making doom slower and heavier. Cathedral themselves later moved onto a more uptempo, groove-oriented style, but their early material resulted in doom metal gaining more recognition. By now, there were a couple of doom metal subgenres: "epic doom", which fused traditional doom with operatic vocals and (often) HeavyMithril; and "sludge metal", which fused doom with HardcorePunk and in some cases southern rock, and started off in [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]]. In the early-to-mid nineties, doom metal diversified, and quite a few new subgenres were created, including "stoner metal", "death/doom", "black doom", "funeral doom" and "drone doom". Around the time NuMetal was mainstream, the stoner metal band Music/ElectricWizard released Dopethrone, which is regarded as one of the seminal doom metal albums and one of the heaviest metal albums of all time, bringing to doom a new audience obsessed with heaviness in metal.

* Music/{{Cathedral}} (has had run-ins with the stoner label from time to time)

* Music/WithTheDead (supergroup featuring [[Music/{{Cathedral}} Lee Dorrian]], [[Music/ElectricWizard Tim Bagshaw, and Mark Greening]]; they largely sound like a mix of the two main parent acts)

* Music/{{Cathedral}} (depending on the album)

There's also GothicMetal, a subgenre of metal that evolved from death/doom thanks to three British death/doom bands, Music/ParadiseLost, Music/MyDyingBride and Music/{{Anathema}}, known as the "Peaceville Trio" due to all three bands being signed to Peaceville Records. Some gothic metal bands also count as doom, but overall, gothic metal is not a subgenre of doom, despite evolving from it.

** [[DeathMetal Death/Doom]]: Music/MyDyingBride, Music/ParadiseLost, and Music/{{Anathema}} (for Doom[=/=]GothicMetal-leaning acts), or Music/{{Autopsy}}, Incantation, and Winter (for DeathMetal-leaning acts)

* Music/{{Primordial}} (also FolkMetal)

* Author & Punisher (mixed with industrial metal)

* Music/AdmiralAngry (mixed with {{metalcore}})

* Music/BlackSheepWall

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Less for the doom subgenre and more for the heavy metal subgenre as a whole. Because Black Sabbath are crowned as the first heavy ''and'' doom metal band and many other proto-metal bands of that era are now considered to also be proto-doom or very influential to later doom and stoner metal acts, heavy metal arguably began ''with'' doom metal. This has led to two unusual occurrences:

* MisanthropeSupreme: Sludge metal is this trope in musical form.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: SubvertedTrope: it is ''often'' made on drugs.

* Music/PrimitiveMan (mixed with noise)

* Music/TheGatesofSlumber

* Music/{{Indian}} (mixed with drone doom and noise)

* Music/{{Indian}} (mixed with sludge metal and noise)

* Music/7Zuma7

'''Sludge''' and '''Post-Metal'''\\

* Music/{{Corrupted}}

* Music/{{Moss}}

* Music/BellWitch (With traces of drone doom)

* Music/{{Corrupted}} (On ''Garten der Unbewusstheit'' only. Other material is sludge)

** 2009 - ''Music/TheDevilYouKnow'' (2009)

** ''Music/{{Black Sabbath|Album}}'' (1970)
** ''Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}'' (1970)
** ''Music/MasterOfReality'' (1971)
** ''Music/TheDevilYouKnow'' (2009)

+ PsychedelicRock, BluesRock, SouthernRock (Especially NOLA groups), PostRock, AlternativeMetal, CountryMusic

* Music/{{Warning}}

* {{Music/Solstice}} (specifically, the band from the UK; there's [[NamesTheSame another band called Solstice]] from the United States that plays DeathMetal, also epic heavy metal)

* Music/AtlanteanKodex (mixed with traditional HeavyMetal)

* Music/BloodCeremony (Jethro Tull meets Black Sabbath)

* Music/CirithUngol (potential UrExample for epic doom)

* Music/ProfessorEmeritus

* Music/SolitudeAeturnus
* {{Music/Solstice}} (specifically, the band from the UK; there's [[NamesTheSame another band called Solstice]] from the United States that plays DeathMetal)

* Music/WhileHeavenWept (also ProgressiveMetal)

Technically they are different subgenres, however the distinction is frequently very hard to grasp, so they've been lumped in together (A basic guide: traditional doom = Saint Vitus, epic doom = Music/{{Candlemass}}). This style is rooted in '70s rock and metal, and it becomes obvious in their presentation and sound; they sound as if punk never happened. For epic doom bands, some '80s metal, specifically the operatic vocals and gated drums, is mixed in. Shred-style leadwork is also present with some epic doom acts.

* ChristianRock: Surprisingly, Doom Metal seems to tolerate Christian bands far more than [[BlackMetal certain other genres]] do, possibly because quite a few of the genre's founding bands (e.g. Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Pentagram}}, Music/{{Candlemass}}, Trouble, and Place of Skulls) qualify as this or NotChristianRock, and sludge also tends to be somewhat tolerant of it (depending on the region) due to a mix of this and numerous musicians who practice the Christian faith; Music/{{Crowbar}} is a good example of a prominent sludge act with unambiguously Christian lyrical content.

* FullOfHell (along with grindcore, powerviolence, and noise)

* Music/AdmiralAngry (mixed with [[{{Metalcore}} beatdown hardcore]])