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Ok, this one's the last in my series. Here's the way I differentiate between these genres. Basically, doom is just slowed down heavy metal. Stoner rock/metal is doom metal with a psychedelic/heavy blues twist. Sludge is doom metal fused with hardcore punk and/or southern blues. Drone is probably the most extreme soundwise since it's extra slow, extra loud, repetitive doom metal. Of course there's also funeral doom which is usually even slower than drone but not quite as abrasive. So again, please post your picks and feel free to dispute or add to my genre distinctions because they do seem to overlap a lot of the time. To start off here's my picks:

 

Acid Witch

Ahab

Baroness

Bison B.C.

Black Sabbath

Bongzilla

Boris

Candlemass

Corrosion of Conformity

Down

Electric Wizard

High on Fire

Katatonia

Kylesa

Kyuss

Mastodon

My Dying Bride

November's Doom

Orange Goblin

Priestess

QOTSA

Shape of Despair

Sleep

Spirit Caravan

Swallow the Sun

The Sword

While Heaven Wept

Wolfmother

 

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Btw, I just found another really awesome drone metal band called Nadja. Really beautiful atmospheric stuff. Check it out:

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QUOTE (adace1 @ Dec 28 2011, 05:54 AM)
Ok, this one's the last in my series. Here's the way I differentiate between these genres. Basically, doom is just slowed down heavy metal. Stoner rock/metal is doom metal with a psychedelic/heavy blues twist. Sludge is doom metal fused with hardcore punk and/or southern blues. Drone is probably the most extreme soundwise since it's extra slow, extra loud, repetitive doom metal. Of course there's also funeral doom which is usually even slower than drone but not quite as abrasive. So again, please post your picks and feel free to dispute or add to my genre distinctions because they do seem to overlap a lot of the time. To start off here's my picks:

Acid Witch
Ahab
Baroness
Bison B.C.
Black Sabbath
Bongzilla
Boris
Candlemass
Corrosion of Conformity
Down
Electric Wizard
High on Fire
Katatonia
Kylesa
Kyuss
Mastodon
My Dying Bride
November's Doom
Orange Goblin
Priestess
QOTSA
Shape of Despair
Sleep
Spirit Caravan
Swallow the Sun
The Sword
While Heaven Wept
Wolfmother

we have an extreme metal thread for this... tongue.gif

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I know that but this is more specific and stricly speaking, doom and its subgenres aren't extreme unlike black metal, death metal, grindcore etc. I wouldn't call bands like Candlemass or Black Sabbath extreme at all. Doom metal definitely has an extreme component (death/doom, funeral doom, drone, most sludge bands) but on the whole I don't think it's extreme.
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Saw Bison B.C. downtown here a year or two back... good lord. They played w/ Priestess. 1022.gif

 

I'm familiar with a few things on the list, I'll throw a few names. Some will overlap.

 

Kyuss is very popular w/ me... I'll include Desert Sessions stuff and some of Queens Of The Stone Age qualifies. Been playing the s**t out their 1st album lately.

 

Monster Magnet... thought they kinda cleaned up their approach a few years back, check out at least their 1st 3 albums, including 25 Tab.

 

Black Sabbath... well, duhh... tongue.gif

 

Pentagram... wish there was more stuff recorded in the '70's.

 

Not gonna elaborate on each name yet, but here's some more. Maybe you'll agree w/ this list, maybe not... laugh.gif

 

Budgie

Preistess

The Melvins (Love 'em!)

Sir Lord Baltimore

The Sword

Wolfmother

Rose Hill Drive

Grand Funk Railroad (pre '72 for the heavy stuff)

Cathedral

Bloodrock

JPT Scare Band (look up King Rat on Youtube...)

Lonesome Crow/ Uli Jon Roth-era Scorpions

a Few songs by Fu Manchu

Tad

Captain Beyond

Blue Cheer

Corrosion Of Conformity

 

I've been kinda making a study of this area of rock/metal, starting around 1970 or so. Maybe I don't know as much about the newer bands. Someone enlighten me.

 

 

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The more threads on this kind of stuff the better!

 

Obviously there's a lot of crossover between genres, particularly Doom/Sludge so a lot would fit under either category, really. I've counted bands that formed in the last 5 years or so as 'new' ones. There are an absolute ton of great new(ish) sludge bands out there, though.

 

Doom:

Church of Misery

Electric Wizard

Cathedral

Disembowelment

Saint Vitus

YOB

Goatsnake

Pentagram

My Dying Bride

Black Pyramid (New)

Pagan Altar

Asteriod

Minsk

Sleep

Shrinebuilder (New)

Acid King

 

Stoner:

Orange Goblin

Karma to Burn

Kyuss

Red Fang (New)

Monster Magnet

Witchcraft

Pelican

Colour Haze

ASG

Valient Thorr

Dopefight (New)

Sungrazer (New)

Brain Police

Om

 

 

 

Sludgey stuff:

Neurosis

Melvins

Buzzov*en

Down

Mastodon

EyehateGod

Kylesa

Baroness

Kingdom of Sorrow

Knut (New)

Acid Bath

Kruger

Corrosion of Conformity

Slabdragger (New)

High On Fire

Weedeater

Black Tusk (New)

Bongzilla

Rwake

Zoroaster

Black Cobra

Isis

Cough (New)

Ancestors (New)

Ramesses

Minsk

 

 

Drone:

Boris

Sun 0)))

Ufomammut

Thou

Earth

Jesu

Year of No Light (New)

 

Those are all a good place to start/carry on for a while after tongue.gif

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QUOTE (J0N @ Dec 29 2011, 10:21 AM)
The more threads on this kind of stuff the better!

Obviously there's a lot of crossover between genres, particularly Doom/Sludge so a lot would fit under either category, really. I've counted bands that formed in the last 5 years or so as 'new' ones. There are an absolute ton of great new(ish) sludge bands out there, though.

Doom:
Church of Misery
Electric Wizard
Cathedral
Disembowelment
Saint Vitus
YOB
Goatsnake
Pentagram
My Dying Bride
Black Pyramid (New)
Pagan Altar
Asteriod
Minsk
Sleep
Shrinebuilder (New)
Acid King

Stoner:
Orange Goblin
Karma to Burn
Kyuss
Red Fang (New)
Monster Magnet
Witchcraft
Pelican
Colour Haze
ASG
Valient Thorr
Dopefight (New)
Sungrazer (New)
Brain Police
Om



Sludgey stuff:
Neurosis
Melvins
Buzzov*en
Down
Mastodon
EyehateGod
Kylesa
Baroness
Kingdom of Sorrow
Knut (New)
Acid Bath
Kruger
Corrosion of Conformity
Slabdragger (New)
High On Fire
Weedeater
Black Tusk (New)
Bongzilla
Rwake
Zoroaster
Black Cobra
Isis
Cough (New)
Ancestors (New)
Ramesses
Minsk


Drone:
Boris
Sun 0)))
Ufomammut
Thou
Earth
Jesu
Year of No Light (New)

Those are all a good place to start/carry on for a while after tongue.gif
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goodpost.gif You stole all of mine. wink.gif

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QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Dec 29 2011, 03:34 PM)
Where would Fu Manchu fit in? Stoner?

Yep. Stoner.

 

Funny how I forgot Orange Goblin. And Atomic Bitchwax. Definitely worth checking out.

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QUOTE (J0N @ Dec 29 2011, 10:21 AM)
The more threads on this kind of stuff the better!

Obviously there's a lot of crossover between genres, particularly Doom/Sludge so a lot would fit under either category, really. I've counted bands that formed in the last 5 years or so as 'new' ones. There are an absolute ton of great new(ish) sludge bands out there, though.

Doom:
Church of Misery
Electric Wizard
Cathedral
Disembowelment
Saint Vitus
YOB
Goatsnake
Pentagram
My Dying Bride
Black Pyramid (New)
Pagan Altar
Asteriod
Minsk
Sleep
Shrinebuilder (New)
Acid King

Stoner:
Orange Goblin
Karma to Burn
Kyuss
Red Fang (New)
Monster Magnet
Witchcraft
Pelican
Colour Haze
ASG
Valient Thorr
Dopefight (New)
Sungrazer (New)
Brain Police
Om



Sludgey stuff:
Neurosis
Melvins
Buzzov*en
Down
Mastodon
EyehateGod
Kylesa
Baroness
Kingdom of Sorrow
Knut (New)
Acid Bath
Kruger
Corrosion of Conformity
Slabdragger (New)
High On Fire
Weedeater
Black Tusk (New)
Bongzilla
Rwake
Zoroaster
Black Cobra
Isis
Cough (New)
Ancestors (New)
Ramesses
Minsk


Drone:
Boris
Sun 0)))
Ufomammut
Thou
Earth
Jesu
Year of No Light (New)

Those are all a good place to start/carry on for a while after tongue.gif
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Two great doom bands you forgot- The Gates Of Slumber and Reverend Bizarre. Don't forget about The Obsessed and Spirit Caravan, or anything else with Wino. Doom On!!!! 1022.gif 1022.gif 1022.gif 1022.gif

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You guys are nuts!! Thanks to this thread I am in a serious FIREBIRD Frenzy!!

 

Just listened to "Hot Wings" tonight.

 

If you stoner rock fans don't pick up some Firdbird then there is no hope!!!!!

 

Their newest album "Double Diamond" kicks serious ass!

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QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Dec 30 2011, 04:23 AM)
Thanks to Duck I love the band GHOST.

They are an amazing stoner, doom, hard rock BOC metal Satanic band!!!

THEY RULE!!

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Whenever I listen to them...it feels like I'm possessed

 

But then again I'm always listening to BM

 

But in any sense, OP, you forgot 4 great Doom bands: Skepticism, Thergothon, Shape Of Despair, and Ophis smile.gif

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMnOM7VwKF4&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evCSiqH8NlE&feature=youtu.be

Check out my new Funeral Doom/Dark Ambient track(s)

 

No vocals on the new two tracks but they will come!

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Random thoughts:

 

That first track (too lazy to look at the name) on Bison B.C.'s last album is so awesome. Maybe the only time I've heard a french horn (I think) in metal, but it worked. SLUDGGGGGGE.

 

Isis' album Oceanic is a total classic.

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