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

...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