Your way in
Doom metal 1980
The branch most faithful to Black Sabbath: slow tempos, thick riffs and crushing atmosphere. The weight comes from space, not speed.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 2
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- UK / USA
- Tempo
- 50-110 bpm
- Song length
- 6-12 min
- Written about
- Despair, Drugs, The occult, Ruin and aftermath
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Doom metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 2 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | Despair, Drugs, The occult, Ruin and aftermath | 50% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 88% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1 out of 6. Doom metal ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Saint Vitus, Saint Vitus 1984
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late. The title says exactly how the band felt.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is Doom metal's own entry point. After it come Doom metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Deathrock 87%
The American version, more punk and more theatrical, with tribal drums and horror-movie imagery.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Doom metal.
The way into Deathrock -
Zeuhl 83%
Operatic rock sung in an invented language, with fretless bass and choir. A tiny French branch with fanatical disciples.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Doom metal.
The way into Zeuhl
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 6.
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. Worth 2 of 6.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 6.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.