02:08 - DarkenedSoul @Gothic Metalhead Secrets of the Moon's older stuff is black metal, they've been inching into gothic through the years until their newest one is pure gothic. Schammasch is stil mostly black but they've been flirting with it lately
20:56 - J the Metallizer I would recommend The Vision Bleak, wish they would put out a new record already
20:38 - Alakazam [link] & [link] :The 2 best gothic doom songs she wrote.
19:52 - Gothic Metalhead @DarkenedSoul I haven't heard Cloak, Secrets Of The Moon, or Schammasch. Ill have to check those bands out!
15:48 - corrupt Kinda hard to come back from an album like that. Especially since right after, one of the creative heads left the band.
15:47 - corrupt True. The similarities are there. Thanks for pointing that out :) Ball Fondlers, if you continue throgh T's discography by year, you'll see their sound evolving. Beyond the Veil is one of the greatest gothic albums in my book.
15:23 - DarkenedSoul It sounds like Sisters of Mercy or Fields of the Nephilim. I love it
It's not as if half these albums are doom. At least they're quite borderline. And the bias for melodic death doom and gothic doom is obvious. Make of that what you will. I would personally include Mar De Grises, Saturnus and My Dying Bride, but definitely not those albums.
List shows good promise, though. Would be interesting to see where you went, musically, in the two years after this.
Nice list, but I disagree with Anathema being on this list, as those 3 albums aren't really doom... I'd replace those with Anathema's first 3 albums. The Dreadful Hours is definitely one of the best albums by MDB, though the other two (A Line Of Deathless Kings and For Lies I Sire) are definitely among their worst albums (I have those at the bottom at my MDB list). Haven't you listened to Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light, Turn Loose The Swans, The Angel And The Dark River and The Light At The End Of The World? Those are all far better, but keep in mind that's just my opinion. One last thing: do you prefer A Thin Shell to Rain Without End?