Funeral Doom (For Clarke B)

Start with
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bk-wO-1564s/S2Sl8bcMRpI/AAAAAAAAFgc/yZV8uULjXoA/s400/Thergothon+%E2%80%93+Stream+From+the+Heavens+%E2%80%93+1994.jpg
http://images.cryhavok.org/d/9693-1/Skepticism+-+Alloy.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9m-XrSXHN_DeLN-BVZCFWaycRpm4iRDuHS234wmvPJMNEzR0f-A

Then get back to me clarke!

Or move on to
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OZSNALN8AEI/Tq5XuurNcbI/AAAAAAAAAk4/ttOPVIbiK5o/s1600/cover.jpg
http://www.thisisnotascene.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Evoken-Altra-Mors.jpg
http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/jukebox.php?image=display.jpg&group=Corrupted&album=El%20Mundo%20Frio

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W4RNsB8IAzA/TCp_DX-GAoI/AAAAAAAAALk/swZJ1TUQLZk/s1600/Pantheist+-+O+Solitude.jpg

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

AHAB!

http://www.nuclearblast.de/static/articles/136/136746.jpg/1000x1000.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wcr0aCqAJqw/UJXdwVGS0pI/AAAAAAAAA2k/t8AHVB9EbD8/s1600/worship_last_vinyl_before_doomsday-doooooomII-1250349525.jpeg

Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
http://cutetapes.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/401377e3c16a30f4ddcbec887d7938f6_full.jpg

Just got the Panthiest album finally... Working towards listening to it!

Hjarnidaudi - Pain Noise March
http://kulturterrorismus.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/hjarnidaudi-painnoisemarch2008.jpg

awesome, good choice Brian!

Funeral doom is not for everyone. Long painful extreme dirges. No screaming guitar solos. But some of it is just the best music ever whilst some is just generic shit. You really need to know what to look for (I know its the same for most genres but for a sub-genre as tiny as funeral doom you do get a lot of generic shit (usually from eastern europe too)

And hopefully we can all recommend the good stuff between us

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AzC92NoHmLs/TDJCuLaMVrI/AAAAAAAAA2E/bGEMTmArXOs/s1600/Catacombs++-In+The+Depths+Of+R%27lyeh.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBGgR0OoJt7KUtZBvQdDTpnfvj53jGWbFgfgPd9iuz86OXMZeeww

Glenn loves this band

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DIC3tCsILsM/UD2AFNzbOfI/AAAAAAAADic/HK6UuqnmXck/s1600/1994.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6NxUOZ1V_5LEizdRjmTIFCakuQmnMt69LLHfk8fmYLqd0UADWnA

Hjarnidaudi looks intriguing.

Funeral, Shape of Despair... both nice suggestions.

http://united-metal.ru/uploads/posts/2011-05/1306425274_cover.jpg

Hjarnidaudi came from Hlidolf http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Hlidolf/4872
Hlidolf - Vo1d is a classic too

killer thread AG

I cosign the hell out of Evoken, saw & met them a few weeks ago and really love how they do their own thing

I would add to these early Katatonia, which isn't funeral doom but is in the same emotional wheelhouse imo. (It's also some of the best music ever made so I am wont to bring it up wherever it might fit.)

There's not really that much difference between funeral doom and death/doom really except the use of the organ/keyboard but not all funeral doom bands use that. So yeah death/doom or even the more extreme gothic doom probably does belong here

Glenn (through his dayjob) created a funeral doom playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5QMc6xIa7x3uNpA6V8xk9G

oh cool The Howling Void have a bandcamp

http://thehowlingvoid.bandcamp.com/

btw skepticism etc are all on spotify so do check them all out if you have access

And there is a Soundrop/Spotify Funeral Doom room where you can listen/chat

http://open.soundrop.fm/s/W16qRWpwYy0eNi7L

One of my fave albums of recent years is by Ordog
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95msu-VwXUk/TUw8w-7U5wI/AAAAAAAABNU/a6GktL3bCM8/s1600/ordogremorse.jpg

The Finnish just dominate this genre. It must be a strange dark depressing place at times!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9sGQMPpyL78/TrWnKhA1YYI/AAAAAAAAAGk/EQ2hXTCCD2I/s1600/Galgenfrist_cover.jpg

Stabat Mater

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=fhovPvNbdrbVyM&tbnid=OKXxnlRfIwe_YM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhand-of-doom-metal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fstabat-mater-stabat-mater-2009.html&ei=uRIJUc_QEJGN0wXClYDgDw&psig=AFQjCNEVUrDCKaH9dosj030CE9ldhWbsAw&ust=1359635502802561

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mHnT_XU-ltI/SpZ-4xOIhoI/AAAAAAAABKI/YuAkLSz1wGk/s320/Cover.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bw2kVQYzjTI/UGouihYp66I/AAAAAAAAEbM/HtqOIc2yU2Y/s1600/cover.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KTu3BsQqh2s/Tckj9SK0v5I/AAAAAAAAGlA/CxrQZp7vGmc/s1600/Ataraxie+-+Slow+Transcending+Agony+%25282005%2529.jpg

nice one AG! Don't Ahab have a new one out? Not on Spotify I don't think...

http://www.musicfearsatan.com/DSK/aldebaran_dwellers_(big).jpg

One of my personal faves The Austrasian Goat
http://theaustrasiangoat.bandcamp.com/

I had no idea an album came out 2012!

dont think any of the doom Ahab is on spotify now

is it safe to say this is your favorite metal genre?

lol doom is my fave genre. Im no expert in it however. (I still know more than sean though) I do dig funeral doom as well as the drone doom and the trad doom and the epic doom and...

I just like trying to introduce good music to everyone.

Actually smithy I wasn't sure you liked much doom so I'm pleased you dig funeral doom.

that EA album is one of my fave records. but i like this album even more from russia. same label and year i think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2wVkR-cTIE

Solitude Productions? 90% of the crap they release but the other 10% is awesome.

Actually smithy I wasn't sure you liked much doom so I'm pleased you dig funeral doom.

I can dig it - love the Hooded Menace album to bits. In the words of my bud Erik R "I'm a death metal fuck" but I can groove to good doom. Especially Evoken, going through a huge phase w/them right now. Moss too if you count them

yeah Hooded Menace and Moss are great bands.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M6YZ9qtpeek/TQB4EYve9ZI/AAAAAAAAAB0/zW4qweiI7A8/s1600/MOSS_Sub_Templum_cover_art.jpg

brilliant album

btw I know you want to check out WORMPHLEGM
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wormphlegm/14424

Would you wear a Wormphlegm tshirt?

Tomb of the Ancient King is a fucking killer title

hah Wormphlegm tshirt says Torture Doom
http://www.rustycrowbar.com/wshirt.jpg

They're another finnish band. Dunno much about them but I do recall not buying their stuff due to some dodgy lyrics but I cannot remember what they were beyond the fact it was really anti religious stuff that crossed the line into offensive

The vinyl is on Painiac so its very expensive now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUgcs2qOYM

Cant find out anything about their lyrics so maybe im confusing them with someone else?

This is a pretty good article

http://trialbyordeal666.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/looking-back-on-wormphlegm.html

Funeral doom launched with bands like Skepticism and Thergothon, whose unique styles and brilliant songwriting helped establish funeral doom as a unique and fascinating entity of its own. Unfortunately, most of the musicians out there who loved these bands didn't understand the finer aspects of what made them so great, and ended up making simplified, stripped-down versions of these sounds that weren't nearly as revelatory. The component elements- simple, big riffs, slow pacing, seemingly static percussion, deep growls- were taken to be the sum of the music, missing out on all the subtle elements which truly made those bands what they were in terms of quality. Much of it has to do with mood- Thergothon's paeans to existential sorrow and the irrelevance of the individual in the face of the universe and Skepticism's mixture of melancholy and seemingly pantheistic glory in the study of mankind's relation to nature were replaced with what amounted to Peaceville doom/death's weepy, gothic self-pity. Similarly, Wormphlegm's crushing inevitability and demonic sense of occult victimization was instead replaced with simple, bland stories of rape, torture, and murder no more interesting than the average death metal album.

"Looking Back on Wormphlegm" was actually the working title of my autobiography

hmmm it seems the guy behind that blog is a Quietus writer
http://trialbyordeal666.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/shameless-personal-plug.html

It seems Metal Archives class Blood Of The Black Owl as Black Metal/Funeral Doom and they're a really good band too

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Blood_of_the_Black_Owl/86051

Fun facts about Thergothon (the 1st funeral doom band)

Thergothon was an influential Finnish doom metal band. They were one of the pioneers of the funeral doom subgenre, starting with their demo Fhtagn nagh Yog-Sothoth (1991) and continuing their raw, depressing style with their only album, Stream from the Heavens (1994). Their sound was extremely slow and dirged along in long pieces, which combined heavy guitar riffs, extremely deep death grunts and sparse lead guitar melodies. The band had already disbanded two years before the release of their only album.

Niko Sirkiä and Jori Sjöroos went on to form This Empty Flow, which marked a distinct stylistic departure from Thergothon. The project began as somewhat of a shoegazer band, taking cues from groups like Slowdive, but ended up as more in the area of trip-hop.

Lately Sjöroos has gained reputation for composing songs of popular Finnish pop-rock act PMMP.

Niko Sirkiä currently records experimental electronic music as Niko Skorpio, and runs a record label called Some Place Else.

Was lucky enough to get a copy of the Wormphlegm album just before all reasonably priced trace of it disappeared. Sure I heard the demo was getting reissued (I just have an mp3 burn), but don't recall that having happened unfortunately (or if it did it was another Paniac style, blink & you've missed it affair).

I never got any paniac stuff i was never quick enough.

btw sean will recommend this album by the funeral orchestra. He always plays them on soundrop
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/The_Funeral_Orchestra/Feeding_the_Abyss/22835

evoken can be so good it's almost as if they aren't from the u.s.

not like american metal now scott?

i like the bands that made one demo or album and then were too sad to make another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_baERy7s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qu-aybDfNw

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DxsBHgXWJHE/Tw-uRJzbBdI/AAAAAAAAEOU/VKorcfHztqY/s1600/R-377685-1186218818.jpeg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disembowelment_%28band%29
Some members of the band are now in Inverloch. Who placed in this years metal poll top 50.

scott, i feel that way about dISEMBOWELMENT (how you do about Evoken): "these guys are so good, i can't believe they're from Australia!"

and just as i post that, up goes the cover art to one hell of an influential album!

I wish there was a finnish metaller on ilm so he could explain why Finland produces such great metal. Wherever Tuomas is from I dont think theres much metal about. Except shit like nightwish and children of bodom.

xp

hahaha

what did you think of Inverloch? I know dISEMBOWELMENT is more of the death/doom than funeral doom so smithy should check both out.

they also made some of the most amazing punk/hardcore that the world has ever seen. finns know how to get down.

i just really don't listen to much american metal except for older stuff. there are good/great bands obviously now and in the recent past but i just don't play them much. this country peaked in the 80's kinda. but it peaked in a big way so its okay.

yeah that Inverloch was great i thought. a very pleasant surprise.

i definitely love the forest-y stuff though. love blood of the black owl. love my man celestiial.

i'm amazed at how much American black metal there is out there these days. so much of it, that i haven't been able to dig very deep yet and have been flying high on what's been directly recommended to me.

i like nechochwen. they're from the states. but they could be from finland come to think of it.

there is a lot of us bm i dig. But the purists seem to hate it!

yeah i don't dig a lot of american bm.

uh i'm not a purist though. i just don't dig a lot of it.

I love funeral doom (shout out to whomever posted Worship up there - still dying to get my hands on their new record!) but am taking abreak from the uberslow.
Last week, I spent an excruciating day listening to an 11:16:54 funeral doom/drone song in its entirety. Sadistic bastards. My slow spiral into madness is on here, if you'd like to see a woman break and crumble from a feedback overdose! (Jan 23rd - https://twitter.com/GrimKim)

yeah I saw your post about that on FB. Looked gruelling!!

Not sure about new Worship. Its just not the same without Mad Max. No doubt I'll give it a listen though.

i get confused when a USBM band gets a decent-sized name for themselves -- whether it's because they've reached a wider, less discriminating audience outside the BM realm or if the cream has risen to the crop and they are the genuine article. i think i've just got to trust my instincts more. i mean, i have a good ear for the European stuff.

never was a nickname so apt

An underground/cult doom act that only released their work primarily on tape and very limited vinyl. The band disbanded after drummer/vocalist Fucked-up Mad Max killed himself by jumping off a bridge.

i like sapthuran. he's from kentucky.

pfunkboy who was that american bm dude who got pissed at me on the southern lord board? that was funny. he didn't like that his album got a nice mention in decibel. where did that guy go?

savage henry, i forget what band he was in though! It was pretty funny though!

i had to explain to him on there that his record label was a retail store (blackmetal.com) and that they MIGHT try to sell his record...

was it Ganzmord?

yah i think that was him. i did like his record.

yeah you did. Never seen anyone complain about getting a really good review before.

For Clarke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_%28band%29

I think I would say you gotta start with Corrupted after all. Really there is nobody like them.

I just dug out of the mothballs one of my favorite funeral doom statements, one I remember really having a big impact on me when I got it as a promo back when I was the metal buyer at Magnolia Thunderpussy in Columbus, Ohio.

Here is that CD:

http://www.webofmetal.com/images/products/bleak-vistae-tyranny/bleak-vistae-tyranny.jpg?1242594292

The band is Tyranny. The disc is their first EP (all EPs should be 45 minutes long... And three songs!) and it was technically a reissue that the Finnish label Firebox put out very early 2004 (the band is also Finnish) though it dates to the year prior. When I first got it, I was blown away at how they managed to make music that was this morose and measured yet still be bone-crushing at the same time. I will listen to it now for the first time in a long time to see if it rekindles the same reaction as it did nine or so years ago.

Also, I am currently listening to the split that Relapse put out with Horseback and Locrian last year. Maybe not Funeral Doom in the strict definition, but I have trouble seeing fans of that disliking anything on it, but especially "The Gift" as remixed by James Plotkin, a sprawling morbid drone that feels like it lasts forever (which is really delaying me getting that Tyranny disc on).

yet another finnish funeral doom classic! What is in the water over there!

How could I forget
http://metalarea.org/images/audiocovers/2011_Dec/acov_uid102610_5efb6b6590ef7371c5f933ddf777a273.jpg

and
http://getmetal.org/uploads/posts/2012-01/1326194474_lo.jpg

btw Charlie did you forget Mournful Congregation are Aussies?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mournful_Congregation

They get better and better and the last one Book Of Kings is killer. They do the 30 min tracks as well as Skepticism and Corrupted do.

Flattered to have a thread of my very own; thanks AG, and thanks for these suggestions y'all... I listen to Stormcrowfleet almost every day (much to the neighbors' chagrin--or maybe they're happy to have a break from Bolt Thrower, Enslaved, and Asphyx for a little while), so it'll be sweet to have other things. Stream From the Heavens is on the way, and Into Darkness is already in the collection and very much beloved.

I made a couple different Funeral Doom playlists on Spotify a while back:
- Embrace Your Funeral: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5QMc6xIa7x3uNpA6V8xk9G
- Embrace Your Funeral 2: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5NpXhsgzLW9Hqzc7k6N9sw

I forget how they were different, and there's a fair amount of overlap between the two, but the naming suggests that I improved something behind the scenes before generating the second one.

I also find that for me there's a similar appeal to Funeral Doom and a certain kind of Dark Ambient I usually associate most definingly with thisquietarmy, so here's another short playlist of stuff like that: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6zGHxo7ZHm0OhRROXNbdNd

yes, i did forget about Mournful Congregation! i have a friend from Adelaide who knows the guys in the band quite well. haven't listened to their last album, but will hop to it. The Nomad of Creation was great.

Whoa, cannot wait to check out Corrupted... :-0

You're in for a treat! The eps/7"s are different from the albums as they are usually crust punk or even grind influenced the later ones are more like recent stuff. They are essential though.

Btw my fave Skepticism is Alloy you need that. But you need all the eps and albums. I think I have them all now. Bought them from Aesthetic Death who have been reissuing the Esoteric albums on vinyl recently.

what did you think of Inverloch? I know dISEMBOWELMENT is more of the death/doom than funeral doom so smithy should check both out.

oh yeah dISEMBOWELMENT is all-time - I think of them as off in their own realm really, they're one of a kind. Inverloch I've checked out and liked OK but it didn't really reach me like dISEMBOWELMENT. however you have hated on Nightwish now so our beef is resumed with vigor sir, you have insulted me and this aggression cannot stand

lol

Do you like Winter?

everybody likes winter.

i think most of my problem with american bm is that it so rarely sounds like this. and i could listen to this all day long. and while not funeral doom, properly funereal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSe4MRpesG4

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WiRddj6CTX8/TB6FLZ5jISI/AAAAAAAAAjI/_APQ7a2YyN4/s1600/Coldworld+-+2008+-+Melancholie.jpg
is great

metal archives labels them Ambient Black Metal

looking through the list of funeral doom bands on metal archives http://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=funeral+doom&type=band_genre

I think my favourite has to be Mirthless

i think I've ran out of bands to recommend now.

no wait.... how could i forget this finnish band

http://www.copertinedvd.net/audio/C/Colosseum%20-%20Chapter%201%20Delirium%20-%20Front.jpg

siegbran probably has some good tips. i think he's in ice cave hibernation this time of year though.

i feel like with this kinda stuff if you find an album that really speaks to your eternal sorrow you can end up playing it over and over for weeks. i've done that with several albums by bands listed here.

i feel like with this kinda stuff if you find an album that really speaks to your eternal sorrow you can end up playing it over and over for weeks. i've done that with several albums by bands listed here.

read this sentence and immediately felt my two-week corrupted k-hole last year

theres worse things you could do. You could disappear down a lana del ray k-hole for a start

btw Clarke this thread could potentially cost you a lot of money

Jumping in late here, but I cosign the shit out of AG's post upthread with the Evoken, Mournful Congregation, and Corrupted albums. All fucking essential funeral doom records. And, yes, I'm not ashamed of calling the 2012 Evoken album essential already. It's that fucking good.

all the albums by those bands are essential really.

Fair point.

Got any more to add?

This morning feels like a good time to listen to this
http://hhbrady.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/winter-into-darkness.jpg

You say that like there's a bad time to listen to it.

well, I know we dont get hot summers round here, but if we did, would you listen to Winter?

Yes.

after much reflection, i have decided that my favourite Skepticism release is the Ethere EP, if solely for its incredible version of "The March and the Stream". soooo much density and atmosphere in that one song.

Lets face it each and every Skepticism release is a classic.

yeah, i'd agree with that.

Wish they would release something new

btw Clarke this thread could potentially cost you a lot of money

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Christ I know... I take it a lot of this stuff is somewhat difficult to track down physical copies of?

CD maybe not. Vinyl... what do you think. A ton of it is on Spotify however.

Then do you move on to trad doom? epic doom? operatic doom? blackened doom? drone doom?

Hmm, I've been buying more CDs lately than I have in a long time. I always prefer vinyl, though. And I can't stand Spotify! I should really try and get over that... I already like some pretty canonical trad doom, for instance Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (which is one of the greatest metal records I own, I think). I guess I already like drone doom; Sunn 0))) back in '06 or '07 (can't remember) in NYC was one of the coolest shows I've ever seen. I think I need more death/doom! I do like early Asphyx a lot. I love Onward to Golgotha by Incantation, particularly though the really slow parts. (Well, the fast parts, too.)

PERPETUAL DREAMS

DEAFENING SCREAMS

I really wish that we had all got together a couple of years ago and got that Corrupted album into the main EOY poll. I'd love to see the reactions of those checking it out.

For those of you who prefer Rdio, here's a fresh auto-generated Funeral Doom playlist there: http://rd.io/x/QUPlBzN-xjI.

Co-signing on the Ethere version of "March and the Stream" -- it's one of my favorite doom metal tracks of all time.

In the Depths of R'lyeh by Catacombs is also a stone cold classic for funeral doom. I used to fall asleep to it all the time (purposely, at night). BTW it's based on the Cthulhu mythos in case you weren't aware...

Lovecraftian Doom Metal is the Best Doom Metal!

One band I forgot about. the mighty Whitehorse Though good luck tracking the early stuff down (luckily i have it)

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Whitehorse

Only one of their albums on Spotify (their last one)
http://open.spotify.com/album/3w7fq9f88apZApKhpWCgOn

Actually I think 20 buck spin released a 2xCD compiling the 3 early cdrs.

oh look...
http://shop.seventhrule.com/collections/new-releases/products/thergothon-stream-from-the-heavens-lp-preorder
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0188/6900/products/srule025_grande.jpg?70
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0188/6900/products/2013-01-28_20.51.57_grande.jpg?70

That's pretty rad!

Thergothon are one of the most important bands in the whole Doom Metal genre, as they foreshadowed the epic appearance of the Funeral Doom substyle way before their time. Unfortunately, the band's short activity was only able to produce a single full-length, but they were still able to influence a numerous number of bands, including the great Evoken

The band was formed as a Brutal Death Metal act in late 1990 in Turku, Finland by Niko "Skorpio" Sirkiä (vocals, synthesizers/keyboards), Jori Sjöroos (drums) and Mikko Ruotsalainen (guitar). After deciding that they wanted to play more original music, they detuned and slowed down the tempos. Their debut and only full-length album, "Stream from the Heavens," was released in 1994. Their sound and progression has infected myriads of other acts in the genre.

This release puts the vinyl version of Thergothon’s long out of print and frantically sought after debut, “Stream from the Heavens”, back into existence. Lacquer creation was executed by John Golden perfectly retaining the original sonic dynamics of the release.

The original art and layout has been revisited by Niko Scorpio and packaged in a beautiful full color Tip-on Board gatefold, this release is strictly limited to 500 copies.

100 Copies on 180G Orange Vinyl / 400 on 180G Black Vinyl

All pre-orders will ship by mid-February.

Oh wow...

Yeah! Get that ordered!

only 2 orange vinyl left according to seventh rule

A Primer for Funeral Doom Albums Spotify Playlist

Lets face it each and every Skepticism release is a classic.

feeling this. skepticism are just the best (except corrupted are a little better).

yeah I agree , Corrupted are amazing.

Okay, finally back from Virginia, finally in front of Spotify, finally with good headphones. Evoken Atra Mors and Esoteric The Maniacal Vale--both SICK.

ohhhhhhhhhh yes. You on my spotify playlist?

Just jumped on!

Man, skepticism hitting hard tonight. The part in "chorale" where everything except the keys drops out is masterful.

Currently debating skepticism vs. summoning in my brane but I should prob just go to sleep.

...while listening to Skepticism?

yeah, last night I was anyway.

feel like there are some fun parallels wrt production and the way both bands write songs. notably the keyboards WAY up in the mix with guitars audible but often not much more than that. and the percussive drumming pounding along, keeping things grounded. (I'm not sure "percussive" is the right word here but I'm honestly not sure what else to use - a way of playing leaning that has more in common with classical than rock/pop/jazz)

For the use of the organ nobody beats Skepticism.

Nice surprise yesterday: I found Embrace the Emptiness by Evoken on vinyl. Amazing record. I love the open, hanging arpeggios they often frame their phrases with. (It'll be even better when my hearing is fully restores; saw Swans last night--good God.) So begins the hemorrhage of cash this thread will surely be responsible for.

http://www.last.fm/tag/funeral%20doom

This is a pretty handy resource...

Clarke how much have you spent because of this thread now?

I think he needs to fill out a depression screener checksheet if he's spent two weeks straight listening to funeral doom.

Haha, I've actually been on a heavy Fairport Convention / Sandy Denny kick for the past week or so... I think my soul needed respite from the slowly pummeling bleakness. But I did find the Inverloch EP from last year today, which is very good (after one listen). I also Spotified disEMBOWELMENT's Transcendence Into the Peripheral and holy shit is that amazing. I need to find that.

Cough and Windhand spit... awesome!

split.. no one is spitting, sorry

do they spit wormphlegm?

corey check this thread out

I meant to update this... I found Worship's Last Vinyl Before Doomsday at a record fair last weekend. Really sick and intense record!

awesome! I got that reissue last year/year before and its great to have

say Worship play the Incubate fest in Holland yesterday, they were really good though I had to leave about halfway through to go and review someone else. pretty small crowd watching em actually tbh

'saw' not 'say'

not really that great without mad max tho

I'm not very familiar with their actual material but all the musicians have a great tone or style or whatever

thanks!! xps

Any good new funeral doom this year? I've not really been keeping an eye out for it. It's not exactly a summery thing.

the title of this thread makes me think of a postwar american classical composition by feldman or babbitt or someone

a big influence on deems iirc

Any good new funeral doom this year?

I like the Hellvetron album on Hell's Headbangers a lot. Kinda Thergothonic in tone but with a black metal influence. Less depressed, more evil.

saw Esoteric on tour with Saturnalia Temple and Velnias last night and it's a fucking great show so check it out y'all if you get the chance

yeah, just caught esoteric as well. man, they were so good.

Weird, I just picked up my mp3 device for the the first time in years and an Esoteric track came up on shuffle today. I fucking love The Maniacal Vale. Wonder where next to go.

Corrupted

loving skepticism and nortt atm

I think Skepticism are the best at integrating keyboards into metal, any genre.

New Skepticism album later this year

September 18th is the international release date for Skepticism's highly anticipated new album, Ordeal.

A legendary name in metal circles, Skepticism are widely hailed as one of the originators of funeral doom. Their first album for Svart and fifth overall, Ordeal is also the first Skepticism full-length since 2008's Alloy. But instead of going the usual recording-in-the-studio route, the band decided to record this new album live before an audience on January 24th at Klubi in Turku, Finland, with the event also captured on film. A truly unique experience for a truly unique band, Ordeal is a honest and accurate summary of what Skepticism is in 2015.

"Recording the album live was a positive experience. I've come to think of Skepticism being at its best live, and the Ordeal session proved it for me," says keyboardist Eero Poyry. "Having a whole day to concentrate in one shot at a perfect performance brought in a good pressure - and a bit of an ordeal, as well." Adds drummer Lasse Pelkonen, "Recording live made the album sound a bit rough and dirty, which is suitable for us in any case." "Recording live suited me well as a musician," Eero continues. "Only being able to fit in what your hands and feet can do at a time made me play only the essential."

The album will be available as a CD/DVD bundle and also as a LP/DVD set, featuring visual documentation of the whole Ordeal performance. "It is hard to think of a more street-credible approach to recording an album," contends Lasse. "I think metal is good only if one can recognize it as such by sound and arrangement. This happens on Ordeal." "Life is an ordeal, the album is about ordeal, and making the album was an ordeal," guitarist Jani Kekarainen explains. "To me, the music of Skepticism is essentially dynamic and atmospheric. These qualities in music are best presented live. Hence, recording live made it possible to capture the most authentic result for the album." Adds Lasse, "I am personally very happy with the new songs. They contain a lot of atmospheric changes and layering but still sound like Skepticism."

"It is difficult not to be and difficult to be," concludes vocalist Matti. "Ordeal is what music is - genuine without further explanation." Cover and tracklisting are as follow:

Tracklisting for Skepticism's Ordeal
1. You
2. Momentary
3. The Departure
4. March Incomplete
5. The Road
6. Closing Music
7. Pouring
8. The March and the Stream

Looking forward to that.

It's as awesome as you expect it to be

It's right here (for now):
http://www.doom-metal.com/index.php

Dennis The Menace approved http://i.imgur.com/Mrtnv32.jpg

it's a simple thing but the parts in disembowelment's "A Burial At Ornans" where they're playing these sluggishly massive, earth-shaking palm-muted chords while the drummer goes off on a blastbeat are really insane.

Stormcrowfleet 2018 remaster!!! (check bandcamp)

I asked others but how does the sound compare? Do I need to own both versions or is having the original good enough?

Incidentally, I made this comment on my Facebook recently:
"I would like to hear a funeral doom band that sounds like Flipper."
http://www.facebook.com/TheNYCNative/posts/10161054442700597

I wound up getting three albums of varying amounts of funeral doom atmospherics and the disconcerting fucked-up slowness of Flipper:
Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
Gallhammer - The End

.Nema - Bring Our Curses Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjdwq6PlqE&fbclid=IwAR2B8HC2YNIijUOw5chEpgOK0eoqkru-X6mmAXQ__K_7BN7N5Qu-rlpa9yg

The Gallhammer was the closest to what I was looking for.

It was a fun exercise in taking two genres that came from very different eras and motivations but shared some key facets and finding the Venn Diagram.

re:stormcrowfleet 2018: it's like a completely different album, its muffled murky veil has been lifted.

I'll have to check that out. "Muffled murky veil" almost seems like a requirement for funeral doom though!

I don't know, the sound quality of that album is a large part of its atmosphere and character, it's not as if you were missing out on tons of intricate detail or anything. I'll give it a listen before I dismiss the idea entirely, though.

spoiler alert: The Gallant Crow now has an acoustic intro & outro

re:stormcrowfleet 2018: it's like a completely different album, its muffled murky veil has been lifted.

just have a listen then.

https://skepticism.bandcamp.com

bumping for drugs a money

I can't remember if I mentioned this in rolling metal so here's some brilliant fun-doom from this year

quercusdoom.bandcamp.com/album/verferum

That was meant that he a link but ok

Any good Funeral Doom albums this year? I liked Drown - Subaqueous but that is the only one I've heard.

Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin is nice and the Vile Creature record should more or less count though it's on the artier end