For the love of doom metal: C/D?

But: folky wintertime slippers doom

Examples please? I need this. :)

Let y = twinkle fairy dust

X + Y = ILX dream band!

Of course, my weird descriptions are pretty felxible.

Is the Morgion album you own "Among Majestic Ruin" (it has an EP's track size, but an album's duration) or "Solinari"? They just released their third and final album, "Cloaked by Ages, Crowned In Earth," which I reviewed here:

http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-3689

"The Sun That Never Sets" dvd really drives the point home pretty effectively from a visual angle.

Classic!

bloody panda is my new favorite doom metal band, anyone else listen to them? they have a great female japanese singer

http://www.myspace.com/bpanda (check out 'untitled')

Yeah, I like them.

I'm going to check out Bloody Panda when they hit Maine for Stoner/Doom Fest III next week. Should be awesome.

That sounds like a great festival, who is all playing?

It's three long nights at Geno's in Portland, ME -
Thursday August 23rd: CITADEL (ME) VILLAGE OF DEAD ROADS (PA) THE HUMANIODS (MA) CONIFER (ME)

Friday August 24th: 1000 KNIVES OF FIRE (NJ) ELDEMUR KRIMM (ME) RPG (VA) THE BROUGHT LOW (NY) CORTEZ (MA) SOLACE(NJ)

Saturday August 25th: SIN OF ANGELS (RI) COUGH (VA) THE BODY (RI) BLOODY PANDA (NY) OCEAN (ME)

It is like $8 night or $20 for a three day pass. Some bands might still be added, though it is getting late.

I hope to pick up the new Conifer/Ocean split LP either Thursday or Saturday.

Yeah I ordered that from Important. I like both bands. As usual shipping was more expensive than the lp!

I like Solace as well.

I've heard good things about Solace but haven't actually heard them. I hope to make it all three nights if my ears will take it. When I saw Ocean this spring I could barely hear for like three days. Time to get some real earplugs, not those little foam jobbers.

I'd like to see Ocean a lot.Don't think they've ever toured here.

Ocean hope to have their new album out by the end of the year/beginning of next. I think until that's all set they're only leaving the home base for a week at the most (I know they played in Baltimore with Bloody Panda a few months back). I expect a big tour in support.

The first album really doesn't capture just how massive they sound live. Definitely catch them if they come round.

am i the only one who checked out the totem (now jex thoth, a much shittier name) ep on i hate records? mind you, i don't have an actual copy because no one in the US seems to carry it.

ATH were selling it.

Aqua Teen Hunger?

Jex Thoth is the name of the singer. Think Warlock - Doro.

All Thats Heavy (stonerrock.com)

Jex Thoth is the name of the singer. Think Warlock - Doro.

i know. but warlock was a better name than doro, and totem a better name than jex thoth. the latter sounds like some shitty character in a cory doctorow novel or something.

"Jess1ca T0th" is her real name though

and Doro sold more records than Warlock!

Whens the jex thoth album coming?

can't answer your question herman, i just came to say that i love the original post of this thread.

it's ok, the poster above my last post might just know.

Can't stop listening to Nortt's "Ligfaerd", and I've just ordered up Catacombs' "IN THE DEPTHS OF R'LYEH", which has would seem to have Submerged Civilization Doom covered.

. . but my main question is, why is Thergothon out of print?

Where did you find the Catacombs? I have mp3s of that, need cd or vinyl.

eBay. Aquarius have it. Go for it.

Trotsky's original post is 100% OTM. Despite being a genre that is always described as suicidal, depressive, dreary, Doom is really the supreme decadent pleasure. Like watching the sunset from Cleopatra's funeral barge.

Jex Thoth album will be out 2/29. That's word on the streets of Madison, anyway....

Excellent, I couldn't find the cdep that came out under the old name on I Hate Records. Anyone know where I could find that?

That Catacombs album is dark. Slow and dark.

Excellent!

Herman, I think Aquarius still has some copies, despite their vicious and embarrassing 'review' of the EP on their site

Oh right, excellent. Cheers mate!

I really like the Jex Thoth album. Wish they could tour.

I am in the process of writing a book length history of Doom Metal. The last ten years of my life have been dedicated to this scene...

Nate - I'm buddies with the keyboard dude in Jex Thoth, he says they're gonna tour eventually but I think the problem is that the members are spread out between san francsisco and wisconsin and can't really ever practice. Clay's black metal band, Wormsblood, is awesome too!

Oh I know. I've been talking to them. It's a difficult logistic problem when all your members live in different states. It's a big reason why Agalloch only do 2-5 shows/year.

Anyway, I think they're great and could catch on big if they get their shit together. They have my #.

:)

I really like what I heard (ie myspace stuffz) from Jex Thoth, will get the album when it arrives I think

If they can put together another collection of songs like that, but get a really solid producer to give them a Mazzy Star meets Dead Meadow kind of sonic makeover... they could be fucking huge.

classic, but it's a subgenre I never got into as much as I should have, mostly because I devoted more time to others.

Although I really WANT to get more into this subgenre....I really like Cathedral's debut and love older Candlemass.

Five absolutely essential Doom Metal albums

1) Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
2) Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
3) Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
4) Solitude Aeturnus - Through the Darkest Hour
5) Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

More into Funereal Doom at the moment. Anyone heard Elysian Blaze's 'Levitating the Carnal'?

The new Asunder is my favorite funeral stuff at the moment.

Warhorse As Heaven Turns to Ash is pretty underrated too.

I need that on vinyl, Nate.

Didn't know there was new Asunder! A Clarion Call rules.

diSEMBOWELMENT you dumb fucks

What I've heard sounds interesting, but . . were they standing at the back when the DOOM names were given out?

Well they're death/doom so it makes a little more sense. Their album is fucking awesome though and I'd go so far as to say it would blow 90% of you doom fans away.

The Australian band? I've never heard em. Are they still around?

Yeah, Australian. They only put out one album, in 1993.

i love disembowelment. what an amazing sound.

i wish ahab would put out a new album.

2007 was such an amazing year for sludge and doom.

I wish Ahab would re-release that demo on vinyl as I missed out.

Did you guys see my March Into Darkness thread a few days back? Great doom/art-metal fest in Portland 3/21-23 2008...

BTW, the new Asunder on Profound Lore absolutely BURIED A Clarion Call.

i will not be in portland then. but have fun and good luck!

now playing: fall of the idols - the womb of the earth

I got my middian vinyl in today

oh and everyone read Nate's thread Midian of Milwaukee LLC vs Middian - we have decided to fight and we need your help!

at the risk of sounding like a broken record, the vog album is still on my hit parade. if you like your doom encrusted in psych/stoner/punk it is for you. i love it to death.

http://www.evdeon.com/pics/vog/vogcover.jpg

and everyone needs the last sun of nothing album. in the weak and wounded. soooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. not straight-up doom either. they mix bm and death and post-metal into their sound, but the overall effect is just heavy and bleak goodness.

http://www.myspace.com/sunofnothing

my fave doom album of year was probably the worship album though. just for sheer, um, doominess, i guess. but i'm a big funeral doom fan and some people might not have the patience. hey, i liked the last Funeral album a lot too! Grave In The Sky might have made my favorite ALBUM of the year when all is said and done. their album is another hybrid. so heavy. so loud. so beautiful. and no guitars!

http://mediapix.ru/pics/c9a484146613833d757721358d811471.jpg

http://hcbrecords.com/img/HCB-015-GITS-300.jpg

Since both Profound Lore AND Australia has come up, I have to mention that Portal's Outre CD is perhaps one of the heaviest, fucked up things I have ever heard. Not doom, but scary scary scary

Check out Portal's live vids on youtube; vocalist appear to be wearing the Hogwarts Sorting Hat.

On the antipodean doom/death/black tip, Striborg now has a full-lenghth DVD out. Again, there's a youtube taster.

Recently discovered Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere through a review in Sound Projector: " . . if your idea of fun is having all sanity ground out of your noggin by abrasive churning concrete guitar rumblings and creepy chanting monks." There's not much you can add to that, but the sound is truly IMMENSE.

Anyone heard Loner? Crushing three piece from Germany (?). Great name.

The Jex Thoth full length is out, anyone heard it?

I have the Jex Thoth. Really like it.

Have not heard Loner.

But I did just hear that Trouble is doing a US tour in July.

The Jex Thoth full length is out, anyone heard it?

Yeah I've heard it, It's excellent. Have you heard it by any chance?

great, here goes the fucking irritating scramble to find something on i hate records. MORE FUCKING COPIES GUYS, THANKS.

New asva still sounds great and the new Moss crushes like it should. Another good year for doom so far.

You can get the new moss lp from Rise Above, the pre-order is up now.

New moss is really good. Can't wait to get the vinyl. Anyone heard new Gates Of Slumber?

The Gates of Slumber disc is fabulous. It just came out last week, I believe.

As is the new Mar de Grises, which is at times gorgeous. Good year for doom so far...

Yeah it really is great. New Esoteric is around too and sounds fantastic.

if you like things slow and low this is pretty awesome:

Four Burials: Loss / Orthodox / Mournful Congregation / Otesanek four-way split CD

http://www.battlekommand.com/releases/fourburialscover.jpg

Have you all heard Trees yet? They are from Portland and are making some deserved waves this month with their new release. Audio samples on Crucialblast.net

http://crucialblast.net/news/TREESlightsbaneBIG.jpg

TREES Lights Bane
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similiar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the PDX psych-sludge outfit Tecumseh (Important Records). This CD edition of the TREE's debut comes in a Stoughton printed 4-panel gatefold case. We will also be carrying the limited edition (500 copies) vinyl version that is coming out on 20 Buck Spin.
***While supplies last, we'll be including an 11" x 17" Trees poster with CD orders, which features Neri's eerie artwork that appears on the cover of Lights Bane***.

Just got the Trees album today, actually...I'll definitely give it a listen! The Bloody Panda comparison is intriguing.

Not heard Trees.
I do want to say however that ORTHODOX are awesome and that split cd is worth getting.

I don't personally think it sounds like Bloody Panther. Trees to me is more like Khanate or Burning Witch only with no hooks whatsoever. It's just brutal punishment with no release. I love it.

Haha. I meant Bloody Panda, not Bloody Panther! Too many animals in the music world....

oh wait i have heard trees. What nate says is OTM

I listened to it again and it certainly is brutal.

The singer has a solo act called Behalf. myspace.com/behalf

It's really twisted. Sometimes his shows are under a minute.

JAMC shoulda had him as support

Anyone speak Swedish? Interview with Jex Thoth here: www.swedenrockmagazine.com

Anyone heard the new Remembrance??

no and no

I want this Trees album on vinyl, hope 20BuckSpin hurry up!

I think it's limited to 200 copies.

argh

Ocean hope to have their new album out by the end of the year/beginning of next.

I talked to these guys last night and they swear the new album will be out in November - it is recorded and roughly mixed at this point. They also hope to do their first European tour early next year (I think they're hoping for February).

They have a split out w/Lesbian but I didn't have any extra cash to pick it up. Bummed.

I hve that split, it's really good. Can't wait for the new album.

Moss album Diehard Edition
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk172/fuckshitup66678/moss3.jpg
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk172/fuckshitup66678/moss2.jpg
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk172/fuckshitup66678/moss1.jpg

Not my pics btw but I do have this.

Anyone hear the Blood Ceremony LP yet? I'm kinda wanting the 'die hard' edition with the poster and live 7" but am waiting to see a copy turn up in a US distro - can't swing what will undoubtedly be over $50 with shipping

also, new Wold album = best album ever

black metal is my life

I haven't heard Blood Ceremony so I didn't order it. Would I like it?

I really, really like the Blood Ceremony album. Pentagram production, J. Tull flutes, Vitus bottom end. Total period drama but superbly executed.

There's a huge thread on Hellride (which I've never really looked at before, was searching for info about the band) concerning how they supposedly broke off an agreement with some underground doom label to have Rise Above put their album out. I'm interviewing the band so maybe I'll find out a bit more about it (not that I'm losing sleep over it, but)

BC has a woman singing, right? think i friended them on myspace a while back and completely forgot they had an album coming out...

if they're who i'm thinking of, i friended them because they had a total UK downer rock vibe, necromandus/saturnalia/dark kinda vibe.

The Moss album package is fantastic. Does the Masonic imagery cross over into the lyrics?

The Electric Wizard/Reverend Bizarre 12" is up for pre-order at Rise Above.
There's a diehard version with uncensored sleeve and the normal is censored. What is the point of that?

Oh I dont know about the lyrics. I expect they will.

Anyone got the new Ocean album yet? It's out on Important. I'm really looking forward to it.

i traded mine in for jazz records at the store. but you will like it!

I hope so! It was mailed yesterday so I should have it by the middle of next week hopefully.
Getting fed up with doom, Scott?

nah, maybe just the ocean type stuff. i liked that four burials split that i posted a picture of above. i liked the last funeral album. so, um, i guess i still like funeral doom. but the new wave southern lord type of thing maybe doesn't do as much for me.

Is the new album more drone/doom then?

it's pretty glacial. riffs that repeat forever and ever. like i said on the metal thread though, i never played it all the way thru without falling asleep. which might even be a compliment!

Well I look forward to getting it as I loved the 1st album. I bought that just on a chance from Importants mailing list when it first came out and I am so glad I did.
Hoping they've expanded on the sound though and not just made the same album again. Just like Orthodox did with their last album.
Do you like Orthodox, Scott? Last album had some jazz influences on it.

and btw the answer to this question Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (Best UK Rock Album This Year?) is YES!

Anyone know anything about Rose Kemp?

No Eastenders jokes please :)

She's a nice enough person, never been overly impressed with her live.

What's her stuff like?

She does too many different things to try and categorise her, every time you see her it's something different. From pretty overt pop-punk to Circulus-type folk to stoner-lite.

Man, that Rose Kemp album is one of my albums of the year. Definitely top 5.

It's heavy rock with organ, soulful lady singing, quiet parts, loud parts, tons of darkness. Who needs to make categorizable music to be awesome?

I discovered her because she sings one of the tracks on the new Ufomammut. Then i heard this incredible 7" b-side on her Myspace site called "Fire in the Garden". Then she sent me the record.

I wish she had a killer US label so I could be brave enough to book her first US tour. She fucking rules.

behalf is sick. didn't know guy was in a doom metal band. kind of sucks maybe

new Ocean is good, first track slays but mainly because of the Bloody Panda songstress....who guests

My Ocean cd arrived, tis great. I'd like to buy that Rose Kemp lp from AB but next months budget is going on that Jewelled Antler box set aQ are keeping for me.

DOOM OVER THE WORLD

Although why do a Finnish band have a Union Jack behind the drummer?

"behalf is sick. didn't know guy was in a doom metal band."

His band is really experimental. Still, he does need to release more solo music...

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJhuzVS5SE

No doom thread without Winter.

Everyone buy the new Esoteric

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4/ultrashitinferno/DOOMBANG.jpg

i've been listening to sludge for ages and am only now sort of starting to penetrate the wide-eyed universe of doom metal. i've been listening to mostly the more droney side of things like sunn o))) and nadja, but i'm looking to explore the more riff-oriented and melodic side of the dirge, preferrably but not necessarily instrumental, i'm thinking a doom electric wizard sans vocals maybe?

nowt wrong with electric wizard vocals

seems like most of the riff-oriented groups have vocals from what i've heard. if you haven't heard 5ive, check them out. only one of their songs has vocals as far as I know.

You might really like the last Conifer record Samosa.

Good recommendation Nate - just skip the title track at the end.

I got my Worship - Last Vinyl Before Doomsday in today.
Same colour as this one
http://www.noiseville.com/images/worshipgreen

I need that.

yes you do. The grey marble is still left afaik

http://www.noiseville.com/images/worshipcoverfront
http://www.noiseville.com/images/worshipcoverback
http://www.noiseville.com/images/worshipgrey
if you want to order a copy, go to http://www.noiseville.com

Corrupted were awesome last night.

lucky you

Fuller report on them and others, including Thorr's Hammer, when I'm not posting from the phone. Esoteric in an hour.

What did you think of Esoteric in the end? I wanted to like them a lot more than I did, just because there's so many highly admirable things about them (their incredible singlemindedness and dreadful typefaces for example), but real talk is that Corrupted and TH did their thing way, way better. I think I enjoyed them more as Jarboe's backing band, actually

Yeah, I thought the same, that they were far better backing Jarboe. Their own set was too cluttered, they seem to want to do too much what with sections that are Bay Area speed, a bass player that DESPERATELY wants to solo and that weird fairground organ. In fact, I wish I hadn't hung onto the end of them, because as a result I missed the first half of the Pontiak set whic was v high quality stoner riffage.

TH are better than Sunn. There, I said it.

TH > Sunn this weekend, though Sunn were great nonetheless; seeing them live really makes me appreciate the extremis of what they do.

Anyone heard the new Unearthly Trance album yet?

the non bleeped promo version

no but i love this band

If you had legit access to the bleeped promp, the same source now has the beep-less version. I gave it one cursory background listen and liked it well enough, but I really don't think I've given it close enough ears to fairly rate it.

http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/V%20package.jpg
$39 + Shipping to europe OUCH!!!

and no, it wasnt "legit" access.

also this

http://www.chromepeeler.com/home

So what's new in 2011 worth checking out?

Nothing?

Earth!

new Saint Vitus album out soon! With Wino!

Good year for doom imho, strong debuts by Pallbearer and Pilgrim.

yup very good indeed

rose kemp, amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_muKex7j-9M&list=PLC922A9CA317DDC2C

Can't find the latest doom metal thread so... Listening to the recently(ish) remastered 1990 Trouble s/t. What an album and hell god what a band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvD99BWvAEM

Moar cowbell!! obvs.