Oh go on then... what are the BIG FOUR OF DOOM METAL?

Split into era's I suppose..

Paradise Lost
My Dying Bride
Anathema
Cathedral

Electric Wizard
Cathedral
St. Vitus
Pentagram

Cathedral
Candlemass
Saint Vitus
Electric Wizard or Sleep

80s could be?
Trouble
Saint Vitus
Candlemass
Cirith Ungol

oh shit.. you've done in now! lol!

this is hard, cuz in a global success its a bit limited maybe.. and those lines are sooo blurry on whats exactly strict doom.. I like the notion though.

I'd say St Vitus and Candlemass for sure?.. maybe Pentagram? dude, this is tough yo!

who is doing the big 4 of black metal and big 4 of death metal? haha cant have those fans feeling left out

70s...
Black Sabbath
Pentagram

?? who else?

sod it Who are the BIG FOUR OF BLACK METAL?

sean you can do the death metal one

oh thanks.. lol!

Britney Spears
Christina Aguilera
*Nsync
The Backstreet Boys

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Guys it takes 51 of us.

u mad

Black Sabbath
St. Vitus
Earth
Sleep

oh whoops @ op

naw thats a good list you don't have to break them up into eras...

do any eras and/or no eras.

Ozzy Osbourne
Tony Iommi
Geezer Butler
Bill Ward

^yes!

See, doom metal is one of those genres that, for me, has largely been improved upon by the students. For instance, I'd much rather listen to Witchcraft than Trouble, and Electric Wizard than Cathedral.

Of course, Sabbath, Saint Vitus and Pentagram are pretty unfuckwithable, obvs (even though Pentagram has released some pretty crummy stuff).

i feel like i need to listen to some doom metal records this year

maybe i'll start with last year's electric wizard, which i do have

you haven't heard it yet? Get a good bunch of snacks and sit down and listen to it!

Seconded. That album rules.

I remember reading a Guitar World article from way back that talked about stoner rock. As a sidebar it had a ten-album stoner rock list and the first three were the first Stooges album, Meddle, and Master of Reality...also included St. Vitus and Kyuss (first time I ever came across St. Vitus's name actually)

stooges & pink floyd? gargh. I used to hate the soulseek stoner rock room when annoying stoned students would come in asking "what is stoner rock, is it pink floyd or phish?" Imagine a world where you had to live with guys & girls like that? Horrible.

I listened to my music on headphones when I lived in the dorms... heh.
but seriously if were in college for any period of time within the last 10 years and you don't know about QOTSA or HoF, I don't know wtf is wrong with you.

if *you were

thats a weird line too, the doom/stoner line... I think there is a difference. Stoner metal vs Stoner rock, depending on how much blues is in there..

Barroness, the Sword, Stoner metal; Fu Manchu, Nebula Stoner rock, Sunn o))) Doom as fuck! lol!

look I'm only going to make this pedantic point once but like the reason there were a big four of thrash is that it was clear there were four bands who were calling the shot. not like there's like "in every subgenre, four bands rise above the rest"

thanks for yr attention, as u were

Where do I go to find the Big 4 of Thrash?

I think we're just having fun with the notion, Boston..

I actually feel responsible, I started with the next fouir of thrash question and me AG sort of went bat shit with the subgenres.

the big four of thrash...

Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer
Anthrax

Okay yeah I can seeit

its topical, cuz they've been doing some one off shows together, and us here in the states have been wanting a tour of it..

I feel so stupid...I knew it was Metallica and Anthrax, but didn't think Megadeth made the cut...totally spaced on Slayer. And I'm part of a Slayer group on Facebook

lol

i thought everyone knew who the big four of thrash was. i assumed you were just joking when you asked.

Black Sabbath
Candlemass
Cathedral
YOB