Doom Metal

[Vilden]

Sludge is also heavy and slow, and is more close to drone then doom but it doesn't make sludge doom.

Edit: and doom doesn't need to be slow.

[Killbot]

I like pretty much all the big trad. doom bands and a a fair few sludgey stoner doom bands. Not a fan of funeral doom or death doom (apart from October Tide). Some black doom is fairly decent. Here are my favourites:
Candlemass
Saint Vitus
Winters
Ramesses
Noothgrush
The Abominable Iron Sloth
Cathedral
Pentagram
Apostle Of Solitude
Centurions Ghost
Warning
Trouble
Sleep
Electric Wizard
Reverend Bizarre
Heavy Lord
Witchcraft
Krux
Pagan Altar
Sleep

[ohiogrinder]

Originally Posted by Vilden

Edit: and doom doesn't need to be slow.

then why call it doom?

[Necuratul]

Doom is slow?

[I-Oblivion-I]

Wait there is such thing as fast doom then?

[Vilden]

Ok, what I ment was, sure doom isn't really fast with blastbeats and all that, but it doesn't need to be crawling either.

Edit: Btw, anyone likes World Below? Maelstrom wasn't a bad album at all imo.

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Originally Posted by I-Oblivion-I

Wait there is such thing as fast doom then?

No, you misunderstood Nec; he meant to imply that the reason it's called doom is because "doom is slow." As in, someone's impending doom is a rather slow, consuming process. Damnation also has a similar feeling to it; it will come, and it is lurking...but how far away!? Damnation metal just sounds lame though.

[I-Oblivion-I]

So doom metal is slow then because a persons doom is slow?

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Well, it came from a Sabbath song. But that is pretty much my idea of why doom metal is called doom metal outside of just being taken from a Sabbath song.

[Zephyrus]

Really? After "Hand of Doom"? Makes sense to me, it's an awesome song and represents pretty much everything the genre stands for.