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Doom metal
Stylistic origins
Heavy metal
blues[1]
Cultural origins
Early to mid 1970s, United Kingdom and United States[2][3]
Derivative forms
Post-metal[4][5]
Subgenres
Epic doom
traditional doom
Fusion genres
Black-doom (depressive suicidal black metal)
blackened death-doom
death-doom (funeral doom)
drone metal
gothic-doom
progressive doom
sludge metal (sludgecore)
stoner metal (desert rock)
Regional scenes
Finland
Pacific Northwest
Louisiana
Local scenes
Palm Desert Scene
Washington D.C.
Other topics
Extreme metal
gothic metal
Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.[6] Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom.[2] The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath,[2] who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s,[2] a number of bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar from England, American bands Pentagram, Saint Vitus, the Obsessed, Trouble, and Cirith Ungol, and Swedish band Candlemass defined doom metal as a distinct genre. Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Trouble and Candlemass have been referred to as "the Big Four of Doom Metal".[7]
^Wiederhorn, Jon (2 February 2017). "Doom Metal: A Brief Timeline". Bandcamp daily. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ abcd"Doom metal". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
^"Doom Metal Music Guide: 11 Doom Metal Bands". MasterClass. 1 September 2021. Unlike Sabbath, who initially viewed itself as a blues act, Pentagram is considered a founder of the doom metal genre, along with contemporaries Trouble, Saint Vitus, and Candlemass.
^Wiederhorn, Jon (4 August 2016). "A Brief History of Post-Metal". Bandcamp. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
^Jahdi, Robin (24 June 2015). "The 40 best post-metal records ever made". Fact. Retrieved 11 November 2017. The truth is post-metal takes in all of these elements without being entirely any one of them. So we'll be featuring nothing totally proggy, like Ayreon; nor pure doom, like Electric Wizard; nor your modern black metal fellows like Leviathan, Wolves in the Throne Room, or Velvet Cacoon, though their peaks certainly coincided with post-metal
^K. Kahn-Harris, Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (Berg Publishers, 2007), ISBN 1-84520-399-2, p. 31.
^Rozycki, David (24 August 2021). "Eric Wagner, Lead Singer of Doom Metal Legends Trouble, Has Died from Covid-19". Houston Press.
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