For example, you can't place anywhere close to SABBATH, the debut album of COVEN, despite their evil image and lyrics, because they lack heaviness and The Riff. Heavy metal riffs and not just guitar distortion. They were rebellious, full of madness and heavy riffs, ALL combined. Heavy music's roots came from bands like CREAM, IRON BUTTERFLY, JIMI HENDRIX, BLUE CHEER, BUDGIE and LED ZEPPELIN among a few others, mostly after the mid-60s, but BLACK SABBATH introduced to the world the complete offering of outcast heavy music with a huge variety of lyrics including songs about the fear of Satan, society, anti-war themes and the dark future of the world. The starting point for all-thing-heavy and Doom Metal is among them, as the heaviest subgenre of metal music, the music of despair, the soul of metal, according to DAWN OF WINTER. This is not what we want to do here.īLACK SABBATH is the Big Bang of Heavy Metal and Doom Metal, but the four blokes that formed the band in the late '60s in Birmingham, are something more. There are plenty of printed and online articles including doom/death (or slow death metal, according to the Circle of True Doom), sludge, drone, stoner, heavy rock and atmospheric music out there. Still though, there will be no acts that balance in death and/or gothic metal, and we will limit the names in the wider field of "slow" and Sabbathian music. We will try to keep things as close as possible to what we analyzed above, but there will be few exceptions in the main feature you will read about them below. However, besides the 10 (+10) albums, you will read many more band names (rule: with at least one full album) and if you will search among them you will discover a few more treasures of doom metal. It makes no sense to add in the same article the best and most influential acts, and then add any other band only because it is labeled as "doom metal". The intent is not to include all doom metal bands out there. A few songs here and there are not what we have in mind, no matter how great they are. There's plenty of grief and sorrow in their albums, we respect their art and emotional music, but are not the DOOM METAL we're talking about. Just like PARADISE LOST or TIAMAT, which had a strong death metal element in the first years, while other elements took the leading role in later years, along with doom gothic metal, even rock in a few cases-albums. In a more general view, few of the early ANATHEMA albums are death/doom metal, while they have nothing to do with the genre in their later career besides the feeling of sorrow. To continue with more examples, even in the "regressive" world of traditional metal, ATLANTEAN KODEX and DOOMSWORD are epic metal bands with doom metal elements and not the opposite. To make things clear, this is a short example of bands that are not Doom Metal yet they have elements of the genre: AMORPHIS, ANATHEMA, DRACONIAN, KATATONIA, ORANGE GOBLIN, TRIPTYKON, TYPE O NEGATIVE, WITCHCRAFT. CANDLEMASS and REVEREND BIZARRE are not the same with CROWBAR and HIGH ON FIRE, so what you will read here, is about pure Doom Metal and Epic Doom Metal, only. But being inspired by SABBATH, playing "slow" and "heavy", or "retro" music, doesn't make them "doom metal", since other mixed influences and musical background will separate them. The Sabbathian Magick of the first albums was spread beyond doom and heavy metal, including what is known as grunge music and the Seattle scene, and other sub-genres close to the slowness and heaviness of doom, like stoner, sludge, and similar styles. JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN), is that Tony Iommi and Co. The difference with other "brand names" and influential metal bands (f.e. Mutz (DAWN OF WINTER), Ilia "Velingor" Timashev (SCALD), Kimi Kärki (REVEREND BIZARRE, LORD VICAR), Father Alex (THE TEMPLE), Michael Stavrakakis (DOOMOCRACY), Chad Davis (HOUR OF 13, THE SABBATHIAN), Howie Bentley (BRITON RITES), Jonathan "Sealey" Seale (IRON VOID), Leo Stivala (FORSAKEN), John Gallo (ORODRUIN), Karl Simon (THE GATES OF SLUMBER), Steve Jansson (CRYPT SERMON), Brooks Wilson (CRYPT SERMON) and Annick Giroux (CAUCHEMAR)īLACK SABBATH is the starting point of Doom Metal, but besides their overall strong influence in heavy (metal) music in general, the Birmingham sorcery was spread even more. They will talk about the doomed art of the others and within those albums and bands presented here, doom metal stories and insights will be revealed, making this feature, "The Chronicles of Doom Metal".Īdding detail to the chronicles, you will read new comments, stories and memories, insights and mini interviews by Tom Phillips (WHILE HEAVEN WEPT), Tom Björn (MEMORY GARDEN), Gerrit P. A few of the musicians that created those classic albums (and a few more) will talk about them and comment on albums and bands. You will read about 10 + 10 albums (one from each band). These are the chronicles of Doom Metal and Epic Doom Metal. Prologue: What is this that stands before me?
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