Well I'm not expert in Doom Metal music at all. In fact I listen to it least.. But after all I tried some Doom Metal albums, and I found two bands so interesting.. Warning and Candlemass.. Above all Watching From Distance by Warning blew my head. I really liked the vocals on that album.. That's indeed the best Doom Metal album I've ever heard.. Again another outstanding album in Doom Metal field in my opinion is Epicus Doomicus Metallicus by Candlemass.. And of course The Silent Enigma is something you can't deny.. That's really good. Why not Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath..? I liked that album as well..

I should recommend "Flegethon (Rus) - Cry Of The Ice Wolves II"...band is labeled as "Black/Funeral Doom" and the album is single song lasting 41 minutes and it is really great

Ahab and shape of despair...believe me they are fuckin' good

Reading Marcel's list there was no pure drone, hence I will give the name of the drone bands.

Boris
Bunkur
Earth
Goatsnake
Sunn O)))

I don't like them whatsoever, but I have find a lot of hype around them, so maybe, maybe, somebody likes them when he/she listens to it.

Written by Guest on 04.12.2009 at 18:26

...but really confused. cause I can see any Saturnus albums over there! really you dont count them here Marcel?

I didn't mention any Saturnus albums because I don't regard them as one of the best 85 ever. They wouldn't even make my top 100 doom albums. They are nice and all but just not best ever material in my opinion.

When u've said doom ... the only thing coming to my mind was Forest Of Shadow's Where Dreams Turn To Dust ! bt u've already mentioned them. I think the album is one of a kind, i couldn't really find an album of this genre which really matches its beauty. One band I can recommend is Swallow The Sun !

Aaaww Marcel, thanks for the recommendations, I'm totally having a look at this stuff, now I know some albums I need to check.

BTW, I like both Mar De Grises albums but sometimes I like more "Draining The Waterheart" than "The Tatterdemalion Express", but in the end, I think both albums are outstanding. Same for Ahab.

Written by Daggon on 07.12.2009 at 01:58

BTW, I like both Mar De Grises albums but sometimes I like more "Draining The Waterheart" than "The Tatterdemalion Express", but in the end, I think both albums are outstanding.

Both albums are equally brilliant imo. But one can be better than the other because of my mood while listening to the music. If I want a more harsh and heavy doom I'll go for the debut. If I want something more atmospheric and beautiful I'll go for "Draining..."

Marcel put a great list there, so I'll hope you do your homework and check all the bands!

I recommend "Martyr" by Satrunus for ppl who like dark Doom. all songs are really nice cant mention just a song from this album. but "Inflame Thy Heart" is my favorite song.

For The Loveless Lonely Nights [EP] by them is another album which I recommend to Dark Doomers. and Christ Goodby [live] is my favorite in this album.

Well, I was writing my favorite 50 albums of all time in the other thread, but then realized almost all of it is doom (98%), so I guess they would add upp for good recommendations here for really good doom

Top 50 albums (mostly -98%-doom)

1. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
2. Forest Stream - Tears Of Mortal Solitude
3. Winter - Into Darkness
4. Morgion - Solinari
5. Katatonia - Night is the new Day
6. YOB - The Illusion of Motion
7. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
8. Dolorian - When All The Laughter Has Gone
9. diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
10. Celestial Season - Forever Scarlet Passion
11. Paradise Lost - Symbol of Life
12. Forgotten Tomb - Songs To Leave
13. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
14. Katatonia - Tonights Decision
15. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
16. YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
17. Rapture - Song for the Withering
18. Morphia - Frozen Dust
19. Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
20. October Tide - Rain Without End
21. The Gathering - Always
22. While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
23. Dolorian - Dolorian
24. Morgion - Among Majestic Ruin
25. Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum
26. Tyranny - Bleak Vistae
27. Morgion - Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth
28. The Funeral Orchestra - Feeding the Abyss
29. Despond - Supreme Funeral Oration
30. Torture Wheel - Crushed Under...
31. Skepticism - Farmakon
32. Dusk - Dusk
33. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
34. Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express
35. Passage - Passage
36. Abdullah - Graveyard Poetry
37. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
38. Candlemass - Nighftall
39. Spina Bifida - Ziyadah
40. Warning - Watching From A Distance
41. Trouble - Trouble (1990)
42. Wraith of the Ropes - Demo Songs
43. Mournful Congregation - The Monad Of Creation
44. Rapture - Futile
45. Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom
46. Shape Of Despair - Shades Of...
47. Forgotten Tomb - Loves Burial Ground
48. Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
49. Mirror of Deception - Foregone
50. Pantheist - O solitude
52. Pantheist - Amartia

P.S: I will complete the list later when I have more time and try to reach top 100. Plus this one clearly misses some MDB albums amongst others.

Damn, just noticed I have left out Thergothon and Castle, must remake this list it has a lot of flaws, but as far as recommendations go --> enjoy

Some really nice lists from Marcel and Az... although put me on the Pequod, because i think Ahab certainly belongs on the short list of Doom to check out.

granted i am not nearly as well-versed as either of them in the area, but Marcel has tossed a lot of suggestions my way, and Ahab stacks up very favorably.

another band omitted that i dig is Colosseum.

@Marcel: Whats up with both of us not giving notes/credit to Castle? How can I forget such great release by them? I still have the tape you sent me for many years ago. They definitely belong to my list of best of all time.

Written by Azhidahak on 12.12.2009 at 05:58

@Marcel: Whats up with both of us not giving notes/credit to Castle? How can I forget such great release by them? I still have the tape you sent me for many years ago. They definitely belong to my list of best of all time.

I don't know. I wondered the same thing when you mentioned leaving Castle out

Woods Of Ypres - Pursuit Of The Sun & Allure Of The Earth.

I tried Winter, a very nice band, sorry to see them disbanded.

@Azhidahak, now I know what is your avator about

Written by Guest on 16.12.2009 at 21:38

I tried Winter, a very nice band, sorry to see them disbanded.

Written by Guest on 17.12.2009 at 00:17

@Azhidahak, now I know what is your avator about

Haha, yeah man, now you know why Winter is one of those bands that stands so close to us oldschool doom-metal fanatics

Glad you liked what you heard

Written by Azhidahak on 17.12.2009 at 00:25

Written by Guest on 16.12.2009 at 21:38

I tried Winter, a very nice band, sorry to see them disbanded.

Written by Guest on 17.12.2009 at 00:17

@Azhidahak, now I know what is your avator about

Haha, yeah man, now you know why Winter is one of those bands that stands so close to us oldschool doom-metal fanatics

Glad you liked what you heard

Into Darkness (last song) is a masterpiece im on it right now.

Written by Guest on 17.12.2009 at 00:50

Written by Azhidahak on 17.12.2009 at 00:25

Written by Guest on 16.12.2009 at 21:38

I tried Winter, a very nice band, sorry to see them disbanded.

Written by Guest on 17.12.2009 at 00:17

@Azhidahak, now I know what is your avator about

Haha, yeah man, now you know why Winter is one of those bands that stands so close to us oldschool doom-metal fanatics

Glad you liked what you heard

Into Darkness (last song) is a masterpiece im on it right now.

Yeah, that whole album is a great masterpiece. Also worth mentioning that they first released a demo before this album which is probably one of the absolutely first real death/doom metal shit ever released.

Hanging Garden -2007 - Inherit The Eden
Ablaze In Hatred - 2006 - Deceptive Awareness - 2009 - The Quietude Plains
Wine From Tears - 2009 - Through The Eyes Of A Mad
Majestic Downfall - 2009 - Temple Of Guilt
Process Of Guilt - 2009 - Erosion
Saturnus - 2000 - Martyre - 2006 - Veronika Decides To Die
The Morningside - 2009 - Moving Crosscurrent Of Time
Doom:VS - 2006 - Aeternum Vale
Forest Of Shadows - 1998 - Under A Dying Sun

Take a look at this unreleased nice mutual album:

Anathema - My Dying Bride

Peaceville X

01 - Anathema - One of the Few (Pink Floyd Cover)
02 - Anathema - Better Off Dead (Im not sure but maybe its Elton Johns song)
03 - Anathema - Goodbye Cruel World (Pink Floyd Cover)
04 - My Dying Bride - Roads (Portishead Cover)
05 - My Dying Bride - Some Velvet Morning (Nancy Sinatra Cover)

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.12.2009 at 15:49

Written by Guest on 04.12.2009 at 18:26

...but really confused. cause I can see any Saturnus albums over there! really you dont count them here Marcel?

I didn't mention any Saturnus albums because I don't regard them as one of the best 85 ever. They wouldn't even make my top 100 doom albums. They are nice and all but just not best ever material in my opinion.

i dont like them ethier and i dont see taht they can be mentioned as a doom band,,, the question is why are they on MS top 10????

Written by advent on 19.12.2009 at 14:54

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.12.2009 at 15:49

Written by Guest on 04.12.2009 at 18:26

...but really confused. cause I can see any Saturnus albums over there! really you dont count them here Marcel?

I didn't mention any Saturnus albums because I don't regard them as one of the best 85 ever. They wouldn't even make my top 100 doom albums. They are nice and all but just not best ever material in my opinion.

i dont like them ethier and i dont see taht they can be mentioned as a doom band,,, the question is why are they on MS top 10????

they are not even Doom? thankz god.

Written by advent on 19.12.2009 at 14:54

... and i dont see taht they can be mentioned as a doom band,,,

Not doom? Then what the hell are they? Last time I saw them live they were certainly doom. Novembers Doom isn't doom but Saturnus sure as hell are. Calling them not doom is like saying Swallow The Sun aren't doom, or Officium Triste, or My Dying Bride etc etc

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2009 at 15:33

Written by advent on 19.12.2009 at 14:54

... and i dont see taht they can be mentioned as a doom band,,,

Novembers Doom isn't doom but Saturnus sure as hell are.

Ummm, I would say both are doom for sure

Written by Azhidahak on 19.12.2009 at 17:21

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2009 at 15:33

Written by advent on 19.12.2009 at 14:54

... and i dont see taht they can be mentioned as a doom band,,,

Novembers Doom isn't doom but Saturnus sure as hell are.

Ummm, I would say both are doom for sure

Newest Novemebers Doom (IMRI) sure as hell isn't imo. Melodic Death yes

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2009 at 17:32

Written by Azhidahak on 19.12.2009 at 17:21

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2009 at 15:33

Written by advent on 19.12.2009 at 14:54

... and i dont see taht they can be mentioned as a doom band,,,

Novembers Doom isn't doom but Saturnus sure as hell are.

Ummm, I would say both are doom for sure

Newest Novemebers Doom (IMRI) sure as hell isn't imo. Melodic Death yes

ahh ok, well I havent heard their latest album so I cant comment on that one. But their older stuff is doom for sure. So would you say INRI isnt a good album??

Written by Azhidahak on 19.12.2009 at 18:42



ahh ok, well I havent heard their latest album so I cant comment on that one. But their older stuff is doom for sure. So would you say INRI isnt a good album??

I don't like but then again I find all f their stuff (also the doom stuff) quite soso.

But live they were immensely enjoyable though (when I saw them in Madrid)

Written by Azhidahak on 19.12.2009 at 22:27

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.12.2009 at 19:00

Written by Azhidahak on 19.12.2009 at 18:42



ahh ok, well I havent heard their latest album so I cant comment on that one. But their older stuff is doom for sure. So would you say INRI isnt a good album??

I don't like but then again I find all f their stuff (also the doom stuff) quite soso.

But live they were immensely enjoyable though (when I saw them in Madrid)

Ok, well Im not a big fan either I always found them very mediocre and average. Not bad but not anything special either.

I second those opinions. Novembers Doom was a big disappointment. But I've always found quite interesting when a band releases crappy albums but live plays good or really good or amazing. Maybe they should only release live albums.