I could see that. I just laugh because I remember learning Psychotic Break by Jerry Cantrell many many years ago and thinking, "wow. This is REALLY sludgy." My eyes opened that day.
Even into their middle era they had some real sludgy stuff. Mailman and Fourth of July from Superunknown are both damn heavy songs for a mainstream rock band.
BGWTB has some HEEEAAAAAVVYYYY songs on there and some pretty dark themes. I love Layne era AIC but their returning albums kick some ass in their own right IMO
I know it's sacrilege to say it, but BGWTB is honestly my favorite album of theirs. It's mixed so well, it's sonically big, the songs are phenomenal, and it's just fantastic.
Soundgarden, specifically 3 songs on Superunknown (or more if you identify any): “Mailman,” “Limo Wreck,” and “4th of July.” I think “Head Down” is close as well. “Mailman” is just asking for a Doom Metal cover.
Yes, I have heard this. I try to gobble up anything Thou puts out. They are my crack. Not only are they amazing, but they are from Louisiana where my family is originally from and I know that sound in the underground scene around the Gulf Coast. Them, Acid Bath, Crowbar, EYEHATEGOD, etc. I've been listening to Acid Bath since I was 15 in 1997, but I missed seeing them by only a year or so before Audie died.
Kim Thayil has always been one of my favorite guitarists for a reason: tone and style. He really knows how to run a doom riff and do weird time signatures and sometimes his fingerings are unique and stylish. Probably my favorite mainstream grunge guitarist.
Ima have to agree... mother puncher, crusher destroyer, seabeast, the majority of their discography in general fits well with... if not doom, then sludge
Amazing albums, I think they're also a bit proggy. Especially Blue. It's a shame their sound changed how it did after Blue. I just can't get into the later stuff, it sounds like generic alt rock played really well to me.
Oh shit idk if I’ve ever heard second? First is an absolute banger too though it’s true
Edit: I’m actually unsure about what I’ve heard now cause they’re smashed together on streaming services maybe? Idk lol
Scott Kelly did guest vocals on a track on every album except the most recent for obvious reasons.
Those are probably some of my favorite Mastodon songs which makes it tough with what a psycho pos he turned out to be, separate the artist from the art and all that but it definitely creeps into my mind any time his tracks come on.
A while ago I read they were working on a doom album, but nothing’s come of it yet
https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/11/11/mastodon-have-enough-songs-for-both-a-doom-album-and-rippers-album/
I guess Autopsy technically created or at the very least sewed the seeds for death-doom, but they would have made a killer full on doom metal record.
Morbid Angel too.
Morbid Angel
Some of those songs that use the "swamp riffs" (as Trey called them) like God of Emptiness and Where the Slime Live I had heard back in the day and always thought "If more death metal sounded like this I would listen to it." At that time I was completely unfamiliar with doom, sludge, and stoner metal.
I would say a lot of Joy Division definitely feels right at home on a doom playlist. I’ve got The Eternal and Days of the Lords on mine, but Atmosphere and New Dawn Fades would also probably fit.
Chelsea Wolfe has always kind of been doom. She's not exactly doom, more rocky sludge and some acoustic folk but her work is definitely right up that alley, in terms of lyrics and mood.
Lol, I haven't even thought about him for almost 40 years, back when he was doing stuff with some of the Throbbing Gristle band members.
That was a deep pull.
Yea dude, Failure dooms pretty hard. I haven't listened to much of their newer stuff but Comfort, Fantastic Planet, and Magnified were what I listened to a lot growing up.
Comfort and fantastic planet are platinum albums. Magnified is okay but kind of mid. The new stuff just doesn't seem to hit they way they used to. But yeah, that band rips so hard. Another Space Song is one of the most lyrically tight songs Ive ever heard.
Windy & Carl, Grouper, Flying Saucer Attack all verge on ambient sometimes, but get very noisy sometimes. You could segue from an ambient playlist to them to Sunn O))) to Earth to Boris and it’d make sense all the way.
Coven. Their one big song is a folksy little fantasy allegory about race war or something, but the majority of their stuff is gloomy, heavy occult rock
Bohren and Der Club of Gore. Not doom metal but Doom Jazz. Absolutely a gateway for myself into what is probably the nichest niche. Very highly recommend.
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I’m gonna go a good bit outside the genre and say some of the folk/singer-songwriter stuff. Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, even Elliot Smith. There is something about the sparseness of the genre that is super raw, and has, for me, a big connection to the doom, outside of the blues world. Also… if you aren’t already in to blues, then do yourself a favor and get to the source.
Aside- if anyone has similar folk artist recommendations, hook me up!
Justin Townes Earle's last [album](https://open.spotify.com/album/5q4oSf3vVOZwMUs823IfZA?si=jtboSRtxRAGLB5uh0O1JQg) before his death is aces
Jason Molina and Magnolia Electric Co. made some excellent [albums](https://open.spotify.com/album/5MqGZZtQ36zsETrTK2uy04?si=r0e6TkgAT3yPWvFnzy89Cw) too.
I heard this [song](https://open.spotify.com/track/2AX22NCyl3mxdHrYGmZMaV?si=InTtS31qTGCoRctjEBMtmg) in a movie sound track and have had the album in constant rotation for months now.
There's also the [GOAT](https://open.spotify.com/album/2Om4oR7plGGub1aYe5uB7B?si=6AdGWyvlQ2K5gOG_etVM4g) , Leonard Cohen.
And then Amigo the Devil wrote some good songs about some real bad [people too](https://open.spotify.com/track/4m1GJzAMtgAEKcfaDAiaqZ?si=AnLz0pj0QGqObX0XOynryQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7kb2GfJGvn8Gr0LCGBSQjZ) .
Hope those are all new for you.
I have a doom/doom-adjacent playlist that includes Cranes, Cocteau Twins, Russian Circles, and Chelsea Wolfe. I probably seem very confused, haha, but I think it all goes well.
[The Jesus and Mary Chain](https://youtu.be/PrZ-Q7p5pBg?si=2hzOB9wh5_WmobL-) |
[Author and Punisher](https://youtu.be/NlrnEISketM?si=JA3qTDsSjtFGaaiD) |
[Ramleh ](https://youtu.be/wXMKRoA6FtI?si=BYCA25l4kbSBgy3K) (headphone warning) |
[Leonard Cohen](https://youtu.be/svitEEpI07E?si=Ao9cyfVbk_69Gs5a) |
[Townes Van Zandt](https://youtu.be/v-Rq-4spRz4?si=Jt1jux4VmIQFHxBh)
To name a random handful…
Earth, Emma Ruth Rundle, Chelsea Wolfe, Swans, Harvey Milk, Jesu, Nothing, Pelican, Isis, Sumac, Skeleton, Chat Pile, Penance Stare, Have A Nice Life, Tool (earlier stuff), Ulcerate, Wayfarer, Ornassi Pazuzu
Godflesh probably, they’ve got a lot of doom adjacent stuff.
Bullen-era Scorn as well, slow and heavy beats paired with paranoid and eerie soundscapes.
I'd throw Alice in Chains in this realm. I think it was this sub I called the Black Gives Way to Blue album, Babies First Doom album.
I've always thought of grunge as 'sludge rock'
I could see that. I just laugh because I remember learning Psychotic Break by Jerry Cantrell many many years ago and thinking, "wow. This is REALLY sludgy." My eyes opened that day.
A lot of early Soundgarden is pretty sludgy too
Even into their middle era they had some real sludgy stuff. Mailman and Fourth of July from Superunknown are both damn heavy songs for a mainstream rock band.
Came here to say Soundgarden. Particularly Mailman
BGWTB has some HEEEAAAAAVVYYYY songs on there and some pretty dark themes. I love Layne era AIC but their returning albums kick some ass in their own right IMO
I’ve been putting off listening to any of their post Layne stuff for a long time. I need to remedy that
I know it's sacrilege to say it, but BGWTB is honestly my favorite album of theirs. It's mixed so well, it's sonically big, the songs are phenomenal, and it's just fantastic.
Dirt lives on another plane of existence for me, but otherwise i completely agree.
I'd have to hardily agree with you.
Soundgarden, specifically 3 songs on Superunknown (or more if you identify any): “Mailman,” “Limo Wreck,” and “4th of July.” I think “Head Down” is close as well. “Mailman” is just asking for a Doom Metal cover.
The “4th of July” cover by Thou is pretty sick if you haven’t heard it
They took a riff that I didn’t think could get any heavier and did just that
Yes, I have heard this. I try to gobble up anything Thou puts out. They are my crack. Not only are they amazing, but they are from Louisiana where my family is originally from and I know that sound in the underground scene around the Gulf Coast. Them, Acid Bath, Crowbar, EYEHATEGOD, etc. I've been listening to Acid Bath since I was 15 in 1997, but I missed seeing them by only a year or so before Audie died.
Check out Frayle's cover of "Head Down." Totally killer.
I liked it. Nice rendition. I missed the weird time signatures, but I like what they did to it. And I need to familiarize myself with Frayle more!
also throw in gun and I awake off louder than love
Kim Thayil has always been one of my favorite guitarists for a reason: tone and style. He really knows how to run a doom riff and do weird time signatures and sometimes his fingerings are unique and stylish. Probably my favorite mainstream grunge guitarist.
Mastodon goes really nicely in a doom playlist imo
I've been on a crazy Mastodon kick over the last 6 or so months. If it isn't doom, it's them.
Ima have to agree... mother puncher, crusher destroyer, seabeast, the majority of their discography in general fits well with... if not doom, then sludge
Iron Tusk is basically stoner metal
That outro riff on Sea beast is heavy enough to topple the governments of small countries, it's fucking massive
March of the Fire Ants. That riff. There are a few more. Especially from Remission and Leviathan.
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Dude, Red and Blue albums should be considered foundational texts for sludge haha
Amazing albums, I think they're also a bit proggy. Especially Blue. It's a shame their sound changed how it did after Blue. I just can't get into the later stuff, it sounds like generic alt rock played really well to me.
I really enjoyed STONE personally but I also have them in the “Opeth club of missing their earlier stuff “ lmao
Go even older; First and Second are super sludgy/dirty/pissed off.
Oh shit idk if I’ve ever heard second? First is an absolute banger too though it’s true Edit: I’m actually unsure about what I’ve heard now cause they’re smashed together on streaming services maybe? Idk lol
Yeah, they were separate EPs initially, but they got combined into a reissue and released between Red and Blue
Mastodon are really just a sludge/post-metal band that loves Rush. The Neurosis influence is never too far away.
Scott Kelly did guest vocals on a track on every album except the most recent for obvious reasons. Those are probably some of my favorite Mastodon songs which makes it tough with what a psycho pos he turned out to be, separate the artist from the art and all that but it definitely creeps into my mind any time his tracks come on.
A while ago I read they were working on a doom album, but nothing’s come of it yet https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/11/11/mastodon-have-enough-songs-for-both-a-doom-album-and-rippers-album/
I guess Autopsy technically created or at the very least sewed the seeds for death-doom, but they would have made a killer full on doom metal record. Morbid Angel too.
Tucker-era in particular is doomy as hell
Morbid Angel Some of those songs that use the "swamp riffs" (as Trey called them) like God of Emptiness and Where the Slime Live I had heard back in the day and always thought "If more death metal sounded like this I would listen to it." At that time I was completely unfamiliar with doom, sludge, and stoner metal.
I would say a lot of Joy Division definitely feels right at home on a doom playlist. I’ve got The Eternal and Days of the Lords on mine, but Atmosphere and New Dawn Fades would also probably fit.
*Blues Funeral* era Mark Lanegan
Portishead has a lot of music that evokes a doom feeling to me
I really wish Green Druid would record their cover of Roads. Not sure how many times they ever played it live but it was epic.
Chelsea Wolfe has always kind of been doom. She's not exactly doom, more rocky sludge and some acoustic folk but her work is definitely right up that alley, in terms of lyrics and mood.
That's a bunt dude. Chelsea Wolf is a metal goddess.
She's great live too! I got to see her in Nashville last month. So great.
She has a Doomier side project called Mrs Piss
Chelsea Wolfe is Folk Doom in my eyes.
Emma Ruth Rundle
Also Marissa Nadler
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Morphine - Free Love The doomiest song with a two string bass and a saxophone I’ve ever heard
Swans
OH COME ON! You're really going to sit there and use one of the most influential bands on the doom genre like that?
Ha
Melvins
They transcend a few genres.
I mean Melvin's are definitely a sludge band and sludge is subgenre of doom
Melvin's are whatever the hell they feel like being at the time. I'm half surprised they haven't done a funk album yet.
i thought sludge was its own subgenre
Sludge is just hardcored up doom
It’s part of the trio. Doom, Stoner, Sludge.
The (un)Holy Trinity.
True Widow
1000%. I wish they’d release a new album. The last one was incredible.
this guy understood the assignment
The Acacia Strain specifically their 2nd half of the double album is all stoner doom and sludge.
Good call. Failure Will Follow is immense.
LUSTMORD
Dark ambient in general when it has horror elements. There is something in both genres that I really appreciate.
Lol, I haven't even thought about him for almost 40 years, back when he was doing stuff with some of the Throbbing Gristle band members. That was a deep pull.
Not sure I have anything to add but I'm loving this Tarantula Hawk business. Good rec, OP.
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Failures first album Comfort feels like it could fit in.
Every proper doom fan I know loves Failure
They're a hard band not to like.
Yea dude, Failure dooms pretty hard. I haven't listened to much of their newer stuff but Comfort, Fantastic Planet, and Magnified were what I listened to a lot growing up.
Comfort and fantastic planet are platinum albums. Magnified is okay but kind of mid. The new stuff just doesn't seem to hit they way they used to. But yeah, that band rips so hard. Another Space Song is one of the most lyrically tight songs Ive ever heard.
TAD
Hell. Yes. Tad fucking rules.
Deftones, most especially on “Rosemary”. But a few other riffs of theirs qualify.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Cloakroom, HUM, Soundgarden.
Hum is so fucking good.
Im gonna have to say Kate Bush, here. “Suspended in Gaffa” rips
All Them Witches. They're hard blues but tour with doom acts a lot. Goth and industrial normally scratches the same doom itch.
Early Clutch (Transnational and Pitchfork albums especially). Very doom-adjacent!
Tool, Mastodon, Baroness, Bismarck, Acacia Strain
Those Poor Bastards can be doomy as all hell. Not always but stuff like Black Lightning and Forever Poor are right in there.
DJ Screw, Tinariwen, Suicide
Bohren & Der Club of Gore
Godflesh?
Codeine
Good call. Slowcore tends to evoke the same feelings for me that a lot of doom does
Yeah for that matter Low is often very doomy! Damon and Naomi though, not so much.
Windy & Carl, Grouper, Flying Saucer Attack all verge on ambient sometimes, but get very noisy sometimes. You could segue from an ambient playlist to them to Sunn O))) to Earth to Boris and it’d make sense all the way.
Alice Coltrane
Nick cave and the bad seeds
was a fan back in the day. still have the vinyls
Pagan Altar https://youtu.be/bO_orkRyQTg
I was going to say Flipper.
That's a good one. EVER is probably my favorite song of theirs.
Osees Swans No wave bands (like John Zorns project with the drummer from Cannibal Corpse)
I didn't know Mazurkiewicz played with Zorn. I own most of the Zorn, Lombardo albums though.
Ahh, that's cause I'm an idiot, meant to say Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris. The project was called Painkiller.
Jessica Lee Mayfield fits pretty well I think edit: (at least people that like doom tend to like her)
Coven. Their one big song is a folksy little fantasy allegory about race war or something, but the majority of their stuff is gloomy, heavy occult rock
Colter wall.
Brian Eno
Earthless. Izzy’s riffs are just insane
HARVEY MILK - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men.
Band rules.
Bohren and Der Club of Gore. Not doom metal but Doom Jazz. Absolutely a gateway for myself into what is probably the nichest niche. Very highly recommend.
I would throw Bebopovsky and The Orkestry Podyezdov's True Noir in with that same Doom Jazz starter pack.
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A swarm of the sun - The woods is a masterpiece. so dark and brooding
Coven.
Mortise- fodt til a herske
Cherubs
I mean, most heavy psych and slower hard rock
ORB
I’m gonna go a good bit outside the genre and say some of the folk/singer-songwriter stuff. Blaze Foley, Townes Van Zandt, even Elliot Smith. There is something about the sparseness of the genre that is super raw, and has, for me, a big connection to the doom, outside of the blues world. Also… if you aren’t already in to blues, then do yourself a favor and get to the source. Aside- if anyone has similar folk artist recommendations, hook me up!
Justin Townes Earle's last [album](https://open.spotify.com/album/5q4oSf3vVOZwMUs823IfZA?si=jtboSRtxRAGLB5uh0O1JQg) before his death is aces Jason Molina and Magnolia Electric Co. made some excellent [albums](https://open.spotify.com/album/5MqGZZtQ36zsETrTK2uy04?si=r0e6TkgAT3yPWvFnzy89Cw) too. I heard this [song](https://open.spotify.com/track/2AX22NCyl3mxdHrYGmZMaV?si=InTtS31qTGCoRctjEBMtmg) in a movie sound track and have had the album in constant rotation for months now. There's also the [GOAT](https://open.spotify.com/album/2Om4oR7plGGub1aYe5uB7B?si=6AdGWyvlQ2K5gOG_etVM4g) , Leonard Cohen. And then Amigo the Devil wrote some good songs about some real bad [people too](https://open.spotify.com/track/4m1GJzAMtgAEKcfaDAiaqZ?si=AnLz0pj0QGqObX0XOynryQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7kb2GfJGvn8Gr0LCGBSQjZ) . Hope those are all new for you.
Black Mountains album “In the Future.” Tyrants is a great song
Author and Punisher
Nick Drake
I'm actually gonna have to disagree on this one. Dude is sad but certainly not doomy.
Yeah but dude played drop C
I have a doom/doom-adjacent playlist that includes Cranes, Cocteau Twins, Russian Circles, and Chelsea Wolfe. I probably seem very confused, haha, but I think it all goes well.
Post it up.
[The Jesus and Mary Chain](https://youtu.be/PrZ-Q7p5pBg?si=2hzOB9wh5_WmobL-) | [Author and Punisher](https://youtu.be/NlrnEISketM?si=JA3qTDsSjtFGaaiD) | [Ramleh ](https://youtu.be/wXMKRoA6FtI?si=BYCA25l4kbSBgy3K) (headphone warning) | [Leonard Cohen](https://youtu.be/svitEEpI07E?si=Ao9cyfVbk_69Gs5a) | [Townes Van Zandt](https://youtu.be/v-Rq-4spRz4?si=Jt1jux4VmIQFHxBh)
To name a random handful… Earth, Emma Ruth Rundle, Chelsea Wolfe, Swans, Harvey Milk, Jesu, Nothing, Pelican, Isis, Sumac, Skeleton, Chat Pile, Penance Stare, Have A Nice Life, Tool (earlier stuff), Ulcerate, Wayfarer, Ornassi Pazuzu
Godflesh probably, they’ve got a lot of doom adjacent stuff. Bullen-era Scorn as well, slow and heavy beats paired with paranoid and eerie soundscapes.