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Proto DoomThis genre name is used only infrequently but when it is, it describes the first bands that began playing "doomy" music. In essense, the forefathers of Doom-metal. This is often very rock inspired early metal or hard rock with a definate 70ties sound to it.
Examples: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Bedemon.
Traditional DoomThis is the first generation of Doom-metal and includes not only the first bands to play doom-metal, but new bands who continue to play in this style as well. The music is generally slow and heavy with a truely 80ties heavy metal feel to it and often overflowing with Black Sabbath influences. A certain proportion of these bands also has a true rock & roll spirit to them and with newer bands this can overflow towards the Stoner genre. This sub-genre is often called "Old School Doom" or "Classic Doom" as well.
Examples: Candlemass, St. Vitus, The Obsessed, Reverend Bizarre, Orodruin.
Death/DoomFrequently regarded as second generation Doom-metal, this is still the reigning Doom-metal genre if compared and contrasted with other genres in terms of number of fans and popularity. The advent of this sub-genre gave Doom-metal a new lease of life in the late 80s/early 90s. As the name indicates this is a mixture of Death-metal and Doom-metal, often using grunts and more agressive buildups, the general style shifting away from the Rock & Roll type of feel to something far darker, morbid and (sometimes) romantic. While grunts used to be the defining vocal style, these days this genre also sees a lot of clean vocals as well, The musical basis however often remains a mixture of Death and Doom.
Examples: My Dying Bride, early Paradise Lost, diSEMBOWELMENT, Morgion.
Funeral DoomWe use the term Funeral Doom to describe the most extreme split off of Death/Doom. These bands have taken the slowness and heaviness of Doom-metal to new extremes. Generally, the bands create very distorted and depressive yet dreamy music. Grunts or some totally distored version of that are also frequently used. These are the extremists when it comes to slowness and heaviness. The term comes forth from the way the music sounds as if it would fit a funeral or funeral proccession (often moving at the pace of a funeral march).
Exmples: Skepticism, Shape of Despair, Thergothon, Funeral.
Stoner/DoomThis is a double edged sword. On the one hand we use this to describe bands who mix in more groovy 70ties influenced Stoner Rock with (Tradional) Doom-metal but we also use it to describe ultra heavy psychadelic Doom. This is due to a lot of bands who play this extreemly heavy type of psychadelic doom describe themselfs both as Stoner and Doom. Most of these bands focus a lot on heavy riffing, psycadelic sounds and are inspired by Black Sabbath.
Examples: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Abdullah, High on Fire.
Sludge DoomSomewhat similar to the aforementioned ultra heavy versions of Stoner/Doom. We adapted the use of this term due to its use by fans and bands. A lot of different bands seem to fall under this catagory that at times have little to do anymore with the sound other Doom bands create. Generally very raw sounding music with gut-wrenchingly heavy riffs and hardcore-ish vocals. A lot of these bands have a sort of boozy or spaced out feeling to them and most of them (but not all) are strongly influenced by Black Sabbath.
Examples: Eyehategod, Grief, Sloth, Crowbar.
Drone DoomIt is questionable if this type of music is actually still music is the purest sense of the word. Pushing all the boundries of heaviness and slowness (far beyond anything done by Funeral Doom) creating "droning sounds" that are perhaps best described as the force of extreme gravity become music or the movement of tectonic plates deep in the earth's crust. Definatly no melody, but still Black Sabbath influenced. Often relying heavily on feedback and sometimes lacking vocals or even a rythem section.
Examples: Earth, SUNN O))), Asva.
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