Best Doom Metal Band

i can't even remember if i've ever heard celestial season. didn't they sound like my dying bride?

The Gathering, because I worked "Liberty Bell" into my Harry Potter DJ set at Borders this weekend! Also because I've never heard the others.

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Where's Obsessed?

I think I'll go for Electric Wizard as I feel they were the most consistent out of all the bands there that I like.
Honourable mentions though to
Solitude Aeternus
Candlemass
Saint Vitus
Trouble
Pentagram

close call between candlemass and esoteric for me... and for entirely different reasons, obv.

St Vitus edge it over Pentagram and Witchfinder General. Err, can't say I've really heard most of the rest though.

I went for Electric Wizard although I like Saint Vitus a lot too. I'm probably more into the stonerdroner/post-hardcore stuff than this though.

No Khanate?

Anal Voyage? Naughty Satan? Colon Holocaust? Bastard Orphanage? Evil Brunch?

This list isn't very comprehensive at all.

winter. maybe i'll change my mind and choose thergothon or skepticism after i post this. nah. it's winter.

half of those other bands are just dudes that want to sound like dream theater but don't have the chops!!!

DING DING DING

And Winter is the right answer!

Is Sleep not Doom Metal?

i already knew you were voting for winter. you and el sabor are classy like that. i'm not as classy though and might vote for electric wizard. or funeral. i can't pick. maybe there should be a seperate funeral doom thread? probably to late for that.

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I would've voted Sleep if they had been in there.

where is the love for evoken? or morgion? not that i would vote for them, but still...

In a funeral doom poll, Thergothon, Skepticism or Funeral would probably win anyway. Sleep are too stoner, had to draw the line somewhere, sorry dudes.

Yeah, Evoken, Morgion, Saturnus, Septic Flesh, Nightfall, Orphaned Land, Bethlehem, Nortt, Novembers Doom, Sadness, Dusk, Abysmal, Lake Of Tears...all fine bands, can't see many people voting for them though.

What a great name for a band: Abysmal

Electric Wizard also border the Doom/Stoner line but they were included.
A seperate stoner poll could be done, but really Kyuss would/should walk that.
Drone/Doom would be more interesting perhaps excepy Sunn o)))/Earth or Boris would win. Eyehategod would win a sludge poll. Neurosis or Isis would surely win a "post-metal" poll. (with 300 posts complaining about the term).
What genre would The Melvins be in?

Grunge, apparently.

They deserve a better poll than that amg grunge one.

As others... I would vote Sleep.

Instead it's a tie(as always) between diSEMBOWELMENT and Thergothon.

Nice to see Celestial Season mentioned in the list. They were one of the better bands from The Netherlands in the nineties. They started doomy but ended up playing more alternative stuff on their last records.

Still voted for the Gathering though.

mdb

trouble, cathedral and paradise lost would follow, but not really be in contention

and katatonia in its current incarnation is certainly not alternative rock. though granted, it's not doom either!

This is way too hard.

Anathema for me. Each and every of their releases is a masterpiece.

Khanate. Oh wait..

Since Coffins wasn't an option, I went with Winter. Is that disc ever getting reissued?

you mean "again?"

I like lots of these bands -- way more than on most polls like this -- but I object to all the silly hair-splitting about what constitutes "real" "doom-metal." So, to make life easier for me, I'm not gonna vote, I don't think.

http://www.fanggrebelski.com/images/Father%20Ted/mrs_doyle_1.jpg

Oh go on go on go on..

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Did Chuck vote in the end? The hair-splitting's all part of the fun!

Okay, what the hell. Went with Electric Wizard, though I could easily have voted for 10 other bands (including the Gathering, who might be my favorite band on the list, though I'll concede their "doom" stuff might not be why. Not that I'm exactly sure which stuff that is.)

Electric Wizard are making a new album just now. Who knows when it will be out though.

electric wizard are the only band on that list that features one of my best friends from high school as a member. plus, they rule. so i voted for them.

the wiz gets my vote.

Gotta go with Witchfinder General. Naked women on the cover of all your (studio) LPs = my favorite band. Trouble, The Gathering and Cathedral each had a good shot at my vote as well, though.

Sorry but I don't think this clip should be confined to Alex In NYC's blog, though I'm unsure exactly where it belongs here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FkTORyXc6g

I hope the new Electric Wizard is out soon.

i cant take this poll seriously without sleep on the list. it'd be like voting for jolly ranchers on a poll that left out watermelon as an option.

and fuck that, sirs!

also, since i hold the theory that showing > telling, the bands left off this list (the so called stonerdroner bands err whatever) have a tendency to better create the morbid presentiment of impending doom better with their music than the bands on this list that i've heard. and their heavily distorted guitars do sort of remind me of metal....

....doom....metal....hmmmmmm

to be honest, i don't even really think of electric wizard as a "metal" band. stonerhardrockpunkdoom is more like it. but we all have our way of defining things.

and i voted for them anyway. even though i like a ton of bands up there. and some up there are more "metal".

plus, i couldn't follow siegbran's advice and divorce the later output of bands like anathema and gathering/katatatonia from my thinking. i just don't think of them as doom even though they have all made doom.

If they can be on this poll then the stoner bands should be on it.

I suspect I like Skepticism best, but I haven't listened to them in a long time. Cathedral, on the other hand, are in routinely play, so that's who I took.

J0hn have you heard the Chrome Hoof album? It's Leo Smee from Cathedral.

EW (vinyl) re-issues up for pre-order on Rise Above

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Voted just in time! Instant gratification: "So three of us voted for Trouble."

now i kinda feel bad that i didn't vote for funeral. so sad. but then they are really sad, so maybe no votes is best.

Were the 4 votes for The Gathering really for their doom period?

I'm shocked by the lack of appreciation for classic Anathema. Bask in the utter heaviness of their Pentecost III era.

vis a vis the gathering, are we counting mandylion as doom?

YOB.

Good call, YOB should've been there too.

http://www.truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/dopethrone.jpg

http://www.riseaboverecords.com/prodview.asp?prodId=214

How Saint Vitus did not win is a crime - can't believe it - Electric Wizard - sheesh - guess I'll have to give them a re-listen.

if winter weren't on the poll i might've gone for vitus. just for the first album, though.

:-(

High school me might have voted for Paradise Lost.

I went to the metal record store over the weekend to sell a bunch of high school cd's (made $60!) and had this perverse urge to buy a My Dying Bride cd.

you should probably buy one, jordan. it may just depress the hell out of you. they're too dark for just about all of my friends. but, you used to dig paradise lost in high school! you're definitely up to the task, i'm sure!

I wonder when those remasters that i pre-ordered will come.

Could forgive the omission of Obsessed, 'cuz St. Vitus is on there, but exclusion of Sleep is criminal. Dopesmoker may belong more to the stonerdrone crowd, but Holy Mountain is the essence of doom. Impeccable Sabbath pedigree. Better than Dopethrone or Come My Fanatics.

And is available again on vinyl!

I did get the reissues btw and I can't wait for the new album.

Also I recommend the Monarch/Grey Daturas split. That's crushing and great.

All the Monarch I have is rad and they were some of the nicest band type people I've met to boot

The 2xcd debut album that was OOP has been repressed too. I recommend that to everyone.

YOB vinyl coming soon!

Candlemass should have won this easily. What's wrong with people?

Nah the top 2 is fine by me

Saint Vitus?
I am old and drunk,
THE ST vitus? the SST band?

Help the aged

Yes, that's the same Saint Vitus. Doom pioneers.

Saint Vitus are awesome. Did we ever have a best saint vitus album poll?

This poll was a bloody disgrace

I cant complain about the top 2

This poll was a bloody disgrace

fucking cosign. I have love for Electric Wizard don't get me wrong, but better than St. Vitus, Pentagram, Cathedral, or Skepticism? Please.

Eric has left Trouble btw. REPLACED BY KORY CLARKE. I love Warrior Soul, but this isnt going to last very long haha.

Eric Wagner out of Trouble, Kory Clarke steps in

Amidst many rumors it has been announced earlier today that "KORY CLARKE", of "WARRIOR SOUL" will be the new front man effective immediately.

The news comes as the band returns to their Chicago homes following a successful European Tour.

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THERE ARE NO HARD FEELINGS. IM SURE ERIC WILL CONTINUE MAKING MUSIC AND WE WISH HIM THE BEST."

"RICK WARTELL" went on to say "WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE KORY STEP IN AND TAKE OVER THE VOCALS FOR TROUBLE. HE'S BEEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE FRONTMEN IN THIS INDUSTRY FOR MANY YEARS. HE WILL ADD A NEW DEMENTION THAT WE CAN USE. IT'S NOT LIKE WE JUST PICKED OUT SOME GUY TO FILL IN, THIS IS ONE OF ROCKS MOST DYNAMIC AND CREATIVE FRONTMEN IN THE INDUSTRY.
I KNOW THAT WHEN TROUBLE FANS GET A TASTE OF WHAT KORY DOES, THEY WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED AT ALL. ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN KORY WITH WARRIOR SOUL ALREADY KNOWS WHAT TO EXPECT, AND IT'S AWESOME."

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The thing about Electric Wizard, and Dopethrone in particular, is that it's like doom for people who aren't really all that into doom--it's a weird scuzzy-doom-rock-punk hybrid, not unlike the Melvins I guess. I guess that ought to disqualify Wizard from the running.

Wrong

It's what makes E-Wiz great, and why they took the poll. Like Sabbath and Sleep, E-Wiz are doom for people who like music more than the genre. (Admit this is equally true of some of the lesser-knowns mentioned, but they're, you know, lesser known.)

Just to clarify, I am by no means a doom aficionado. I love Electric Wizard, Sleep, Sabbath, etc. but haven't delved too far beyond that, aside from the occasional stoner/weird hybrid band like Boris or Acid King or what have you. If there's one thing I love it's heavy molten riffing.I wasn't judging EW's quality when I said they should be disqualified, it's just that they're not "straight" doom, whatever that means.

eh I am being pretty silly here

Acid King. Yeah. "Carve the Five" just totally rules.

Plus being silly is OK.

It'd be hard to think of a worse match for Trouble than Kory Clarke. You can just hear the air going out of the band like a dieing balloon.

I suppose this is proof Dirty Rig didn't do so hot. And I liked about half of it, at least.

doom metal is fucking lame

good one

i "hope" the next "trouble" album featuring "kory clarke" has a lot of "superfluous" quotes.

also, if you scroll down on the results until you can't see "electric wizard" anymore this poll makes more sense.

I haven't read the thread to see if this has been addressed, but Eyehategod is far closer to doom metal than Electric fucking Wizard for Christ's sake.

i "hope" the next "trouble" album featuring "kory clarke" has a lot of "superfluous" quotes

That's about as likely as you not being easily irritated by me. Haw!

I haven't read the thread to see if this has been addressed, but Eyehategod is far closer to doom metal than Electric fucking Wizard for Christ's sake.

anyone listen to Dystopia? i'd never heard of them before yesterday and they're kind of slaying me. https://www.discogs.com/master/12290-Dystopia-Dystopia

also Forming the Void. damn. i joined the fb group "weedian" lol.

oh fuck yeah Dystopia! Human = Garbage forevah.

you know what I'm sick of? the endless "Lord" bands. they all sound the same.

Monolord, Dopelord. competent, fun, and sound like a million other Electric Wizard knockoffs