Doom Metal reviews from Reddit

"Candlemass"

"Candlemass is 100% the best doom band save sabbath, best albums are Nightfall, Tales of Creation, From the 13th Sun and Epicus."

"Candlemass use religious themes but are definitely not satanists"

"Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus"

"Candlemass"

"Candlemass-bewitched."

"Messiah Marcolin invented Doom Dancing, so Candlemass."

"Candlemass."

"Candlemass have Black Sabbath riffs"

"Candlemass is a Doom metal."

"My dying bride"

"My Dying Bride - start with the album The Angel and the Dark River"

"My dying bride"

"My Dying Bride, Funeral, Mourning Beloveth."

"My first two CDs as a teen were My Dying Bride's "Turn Loose the Swans" and Paradise Lost's "Gothic"."

"Turn Loose The Swans, The Angel And The Dark River, and The Dreadful Hours pull you into a depressive abyss."

"My Dying Bride"

"My Dying Bride"

"My Dying Bride."

"Would some Paradise Lost, early Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom, and Swallow the Sun get your interest?"

"Electric wizard is another good starting point for getting into doom 👌"

"Electric Wizard. Check out this fucking banger"

"Electric Wizard - Dopethrone"

"Electric Wizard and Candlemass were my first"

"Electric wizard and conan."

"Atm my fav album is Witchcult Today by Electric Wizard."

"Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today."

"Electric Wizard, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats."

"Try electric wizard, thou, primitive man, weedeater"

"Windhand (especially the album Grief’s Infernal Flowers)."

"Windhand - Soma"

"Windhand!"

"Windhand - soma, s/t (any album)."

"Windhand is some really good Doom imo."

"Windhand, Elder, Messa, Ufomammut, Bongripper are my go to."

"Early Paradise lost"

"My first two CDs as a teen were My Dying Bride's "Turn Loose the Swans" and Paradise Lost's "Gothic"."

"Paradise Lost."

"Paradise Lost and Novembers Doom are my recommendations."

"Paradise Lost: Gothic"

"Would some Paradise Lost, early Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom, and Swallow the Sun get your interest?"

"Black sabbath - master of reality"

"Black Sabbath - Master of Reality"

"Black Sabbath - Master of Reality"

"Black sabbath before black sabbath"

"Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality."

"Trouble"

"Trouble"

"Start with Psalm9 the track or ideally play the whole album through. masterpiece"

"Trouble, St. Vitus, Pentagram, Candlemass"

"Trouble - traditional doom metal"

"Winter - Into Darkness & Disembowelment's - Transcendence Into the Peripheral"

"Winter - Into Darkness"

"Winter: Into darkness"

"Winter - into darkness"

"Winter - Into Darkness"

"Cathedral"

"Cathedral"

"Cathedral"

"Cathedral: Forest of equilibrium"

"Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium/The Carnival Bizarre"

"My all time favorites are draconian, my dying bride, light field reverie, swallow the sun."

"Draconian, always Draconian."

"The entire album."

"The 2 I haven’t seen mentioned yet are: Draconian, Fires in the Distance"

"Draconian"

"SLEEP"

"Sleep - sleeps holy mountain, the sciences, dopesmoker."

"Sleep. I’d check out their newer stuff."

"Sleep - Holy Mountain"

"Sleep - Sleep’s Holy Mountain (then check Dopesmoker)"

"Katatonia - Brave Murder Day"

"Katatonia"

"Katatonia."

"Katatonia - Brave Murder Day"

"Another great song i can mention is brave by katatonia"

"Yob, Sleep, Pentagram, The Sword, The Well, Elder, Acid King, Windhand, Electric Wizard, The Obsessed, Candlemass, Witchfinder General"

"Our Raw Heart by YOB"

"YOB - the great cessation (any album)"

"Yob for sure"

"Pallbearer. Heartless is an amazing album"

"Pallbearer"

"Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction"

"I'd check out pallbearer’s album "Heartless"."

"Monolord - Empress Rising"

"Monolord - empress rising."

"Monolord, *Rust*."

"Mournful Congregation, Ahab, Sons of Arrakis, Acid King, Monolord - heavier doom"

"Spectral Voice mentioned, I feel like that's the exact kind of sound OP is looking for."

"Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing"

"Spectral voice - eroded corridors of unbeing"

"Spectral Voice"

"Pentagram"

"Pentagram"

"The first 3 pentagram albums"

"Well known 80s doom: pentagram, saint Vitus"

"Saint Vitus"

"Saint Vitus- Born Too Late."

"Saint Vitus - Born Too Late"

"Saint Vitus - Born Too Late"

"Esoteric"

"Esoteric"

"Esoteric"

"Esoteric."

"Funeral Doom - Thergoton"

"Thergothon, Ahab"

"Thergothon."

"Thergothon."

"Novembers Doom - Pale Haunt Departure and Novella Reservoir"

"Novembers doom should not be overlooked"

"Would some Paradise Lost, early Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom, and Swallow the Sun get your interest?"

"Paradise Lost and Novembers Doom are my recommendations."

"Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came. Must have, really gloomy thing"

"Would some Paradise Lost, early Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom, and Swallow the Sun get your interest?"

"Swallow The Sun"

"Swallow the sun - the morning never came"

"Doom with jazz, post rock and north african music"

"Oh yes, I second Messa!"

"Messa - Close, Famyne - II: The Ground Below."

"The obsessed"

"The Obsessed, St. Vitus, Count Raven, Electric Wizard"

"I’d also throw in The Obsessed, or any other Wino projects"

"Witchfinder General"

"Witchfinder general"

"Witchfinder General"

"Check Solitude Aeternus"

"Solitude Aeturnus. They are all you need."

"Solitude aeternus and crypt sermon are going to be more like candlemass"

"No femme vocals: High on Fire, Sleep, Yob, Weedeater, Dopethrone, Slabdragger, Thou, Belzebong, Sementales Salvaj"

"High On Fire for sure. They range over the sludge/doom/thrash range, but Art of Self Defense is absolutely doom."

"Amazing Band.. have become my top Listen with High on Fire"

"The Gathering - Always..."

"The Gathering"

"The Gathering."

"Hooded menace"

"Hooded Menace, song in particular, Sorrows Of The Moon."

"Hooded menace is pretty good."

"CONAN, Ocean chief, Megalith levitation, Amenra."

"Electric wizard and conan."

"Conan"

"Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels"

"Dead Congregation"

"You gotta listen to Dead Congregation."

"Worm - Foreverglade"

"Worm. They just dropped Blue Nothing."

"A couple good more recent bands would be Worm and Mortiferum."

"Konvent all the way. An EP and two albums that are all somewhat different from one another, but they perfected their evolution within the genre."

"Konvent"

"Konvent is great too"

"Skepticism: Alloy"

"I think the answer to the unasked question here is "funeral doom". Skepticism and Esoteric would be good places to start."

"Skepticism."

"Mournful Congregation, Ahab, Sons of Arrakis, Acid King, Monolord - heavier doom"

"Ahab"

"Ahab"

"ASPHYX - Last One On Earth is killer"

"ASPHYX - Last One On Earth is blasting killer!"

"Crypt sermon are going to be more like candlemass"

"I can't talk about Crypt Sermon enough. They're epic doom."

"Came to say bongripper for sure, Terminal is amazing."

"Bongripper and Bell Witch would probably be good to check out."

"Very experimental space Doomgaze from Wor"

"MWWB."

"I think you'll really like Mizmor, too. Yodh or Cairn are my favourite albums."

"An actual epic doom recommendation would be Below, they are really good."

"Below"

"I love mine and it fits everything someone else described along with just being an easy UI to learn."

"Maybe the Ericasynths LXR-02."

"Reverend bizarre"

"Reverend bizarre"

"Wait, you know Warning? My Dying Bride of the 90's and 2010s then PL's "Gothic" and probably their most recent 2 or 3 albums."

"I'd add Warning they only have two albums."

"Bog Body and Abyssal are fucking incredible face melters."

"Abyssal - Denouement"

"Bog Body and Abyssal are fucking incredible face melters."

"Bog Body - Through the Burial Bog"

"Church of misery! Awesome doom metal band out of japan!"

"Anything by Church of Misery."

"Some really good Gothic Metal/Doom Metal/ Death/Doom Metal bands at the top of my head...in no particular order...Funeral, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom, October Tide, Daylight Dies, Paradise Lost, Eye Of Solitude, Helllight, Hell (Sludge Metal I think but close enough; it's all connected; if you can even find this band) , so many good gloomy and dark metal bands."

"Funeral"

"MSW - Obliviosus. The only piece of music to genuinely make me tear up."

"MSW - Obliviosus"

"Thou(earlier stuff), Toad liquor, winter, weed eater, bongzilla, sourvein, dungeon weed, acid mammoth, grief, bongripper, bongsilisk, dragged into sunlight, bell witch, Indian, goatsblood, wormphlegm."

"Thou"

"Disembowelment"

"DiSEMBOWELMENT try not to recommend their band regardless of what people are asking for challenge (impossible difficulty)"

"Mournful Congregation"

"Mournful Congregation, Ahab, Sons of Arrakis, Acid King, Monolord - heavier doom"

"Nice Ophis! I prefer Withered Shades (the perfect Death/Doom Record) myself but everything by Ophis is a good choice."

"Ophis - Default empty"

"Sempiternal Deathreign"

"Sempiternal Deathreign not talked about enough."

"Thorr's Hammer"

"Thorr's Hammer!"

"Nekrovault Can‘t recommend them enough."

"Nekrovault Can‘t recommend them enough."

"Runemagic"

"Runemagic (fucking awesome)."

"Beyond Dawn."

"Beyond Dawn."

"Morgion - Solinari"

"Morgion - Solinari"

"200 Stab Wounds UNDEATH Fulci to name a few."

"200 Stab Wounds UNDEATH Fulci to name a few"

"The Acacia Strain. Definitely their newer stuff, anyway."

"The Acacia Strain has what you seek"

"Anatomia - corporeal torment"

"Accidental suicide - deceased"

"Bloodsoaked necrovoid - expelled into the unknown depths of the unfathomable"

"Disma - Towards the Megalith"

"Fossilization – He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten"

"Ceremonium - into the autumn shade"

"Blessed Offal - Machinations of A Doomed Planet"

"Autopsy - Mental Funeral"

"Carcinoid - metastatic declination"

"Bell Witch, pick any album - highly recommend Mirror Reaper though"

"Mythic - mourning in the winter solstice"

"Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia"

"Night Hag - Phantasmal Scourge"

"Innumerable Forms - Philosophical Collapse"

"Mortiferum - Preserved in Torment"

"Divine Eve!"

"Doom:VS"

"Woods of Ypres"

"Nailed to Obscurity"

"Comatose Vigil"