Doom Metal

[piracy_of_life]

Thy Light

A truly amazing one man band, I'm really looking forward to a CD release from him. I think the first song is the only one with vocals, but still, his stuff is excellent.

http://www.myspace.com/thylight

DOOOOOM hahaha

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I'm watching that My Dying Bride concert now, I wish I could've been there

thanks for posting that HM, I'm going to check out that other band today too
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you put your hope into the sky
for your souls salvation
I put my hope into the fire
for my soul damnation

[Holymagica]

There is alot of DIO fans who are into a little Doom Metal..I am one of those fans, there is also and alot of Doom Metal fans that love DIO's music as well.

Here is some quotes I have read on a Doom Metal forum about DIO.

[Holymagica]

This is becoming a huge favourite of mines just now.

Doom:VS ''Dead Words Speak''
by Draconian Guitarist-Johan Ericson
Line-up
Johan Ericson - all instruments and vocals
Two of my favourites from the cd are...
Doom:VS - The Light That Would Fade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC_GEyb7DgY
DOOM:VS - Empire of the fallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzaVdQ9wUU

[Vegetaman]

[Holymagica]

[Vegetaman]

[Holymagica]

Loving the song
Candlemass - Hammer of Doom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rSON458Xo

Heaven and Hell and Candlemass are getting the most plays from me just now.

[Vegetaman]

Yeah, my copy of Death Magic Doom just arrived in the mail. It's fantastic. This and The Devil You Know are definitely getting the most plays from me as well.

My personal favorite is "House of 1000 Voices" at the moment.
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Black Sabbath RULES! \m/

[D-Man]

I listened to your Thy LIght link, and I think they are not doom rock. It sounds like classically influenced gothic rock to me - but maybe that's just me. They are very good.
The "Candemass" link now that was some doom. But it basically sounded exactly like the "Black Sabbath" track to me, so that just shows you how much influence the band still has to this day. People are still trying to make records as good as that first one.

Give me Rammstein anyday - they just crush the average Doom metal band.
Check out their live DVD Volkerball - staggering.
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Bass guitarists hold it all together.

[Holymagica]

[D-Man]

Actually very surprisingly Rammstein uses drum machines and sequencers VERY little. They play all the stuff live and in studio, just with a mechanical feel.
But you're right they are not the same genre - and neither band is doom anything.
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Bass guitarists hold it all together.

[Holymagica]

My Dying Bride Bring - Me Victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kImi2HvrRx8

There new video....what do you think?

[SABBATH STEVE]

This is one subject that will be discussed/argued about til the end of time,ironically enough.

It really is all opinion in the end but this is one subject I know a little about

As my "mentor of doom knowledge" John Perez, of Solitude Aeturnus,an individual whose name appears on more vintage doom special thanks than any other person alive, taught me,everything basically begins with orig. Black Sabbath and the lesser known American band Pentagram.

From these sprang Witchfinder General,Saint Vitus and Trouble

These can all be called standard doom or classic doom,characterized by their slow to mid tempo sounds and more raw sound.

Next comes what most of us in the know call epic doom,more progressive with faster parts and more melodic soaring vocalists,bands like Candlemass,Sorcerer,Solitude Aeturnus,Solstice etc.

In my discussions with John,he pointed out how early Uriah Heep,Rainbow and Dio era Black Sabbath are the forerunners of the epic doom scene,Solitude,in particular is heavily influenced by Dio era Sabbath.

Uriah Heep,with their efforts at being one of the heaviest bands of their time, and their early mystic/poetic fantasy lyrics and the melodic power of vocalist David Byron,along with the Dio fronted Rainbow, are the proto-metal beginnnings of epic doom metal, as well as power/prog metal .

In doom circles I have travelled in,it is basically accepted that Black Sabbath is the center of it all,from orig Sabbath you get the slower,more raw sound,and from the doomy,somber,more melodic side of Dio era Sabbath,you get the more progressive polished sounding bands not afraid to,as Sabbath did later,speed it up a bit.

Bands with growling vocals are usually termed death/doom or vice versa or called heavy gothic doom.Over the last several years the term "funeral doom" has surfaced,and there is arguement about the exact criteria of it.When I hear the term,I think of the clear vocal era of My Dying Bride,While Heaven Wept etc but most seem to view it as being associated with having death or growling vocals.

I mostly stick with the older bands,founders like Paradise Lost and Novembers Doom,I do like newcomers Daylight Dies though,they opened for Candlemass last year and really impressed me with their vintage gothic doom (my chosen term) sound.
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Sword of Terraroth,fantasy/sci/fi with influences of Tolkien,Dungeons and Dragons,Grimms,mythology and the lyrics and concepts of metal bands,in particular the mystical words of Dio.The rainbow shines like magic in the dark of the midnight sky........

[Holymagica]

SABBATH STEVE
What do you think of Draconian?

[adiszul]

one of my favourite doom album is: Electric wizard- dopethrone, if you don't know it just shame on YOU!!!
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