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I've been trying out metal for the past 2 years or so, I thought being a stoner, I'd like stoner/doom metal, but bands like Bong Ripper and Weedeater just didn't appeal to me when I first started hearing them. But then I found SunnO))), Thou, and Canopy, which all fall from drone to sludgey doom, and I was willing to explore the genre again. I forgot how I found this, but I've had it wishlisted until recently, and I love the selection of bands here; I purchase this right after I missed Bandcamp Friday  Anyways, please enjoy Weedian's Trip to Mexico, a great compilation of doom, sludge and stoner metal from Mexican bands. There's like 56 different cuts on here, but I do like the bass heavy ones. https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/album/trip-to-mexico I tried playing my own type of doomy trance bass lines after listening and started singing a song like Electric Wizards singer with lyrics making fun of doom tropes. What would be the most psychedelic doom or sludge metal bands you could recommend to me. I don't like the typical doom style of singing (where it sounds like constipated emphysema), but I like almost every other singing style found in metal.
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GreatMrPopo posted:I've been trying out metal for the past 2 years or so, I thought being a stoner, I'd like stoner/doom metal, but bands like Bong Ripper and Weedeater just didn't appeal to me when I first started hearing them. But then I found SunnO))), Thou, and Canopy, which all fall from drone to sludgey doom, and I was willing to explore the genre again. I forgot how I found this, but I've had it wishlisted until recently, and I love the selection of bands here; I purchase this right after I missed Bandcamp Friday I haven’t liked Mastodon for over 15 years, but their first 2 albums are legendary. Give Uncle Acid a shot. Crowbar as well. This is some low hanging fruit, but people mention this stuff for a reason imo.
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 Haoma - Haoma (2015) Swedish sludgy stoner doom two-piece, with a slightly garagey sound. If you've wanted some doom with samples of someone discussing ancient aliens, hey, here you go. For all the sticky weight of the bass treatment, the vocals are surprisingly delicate, sounding like they could have been transplanted from some indie folk project. That's not a knock, since you could make that same argument about some of Dax Riggs' later works. And, in contrast with some of the other stuff I've revisited lately, the cymbals are mixed to be crisp and distinct without cutting too sharply through everything else. It's more in line with something for a relaxed afternoon than a prolonged smoke session, but they hit the mood and maintain it with respectable style. This was one of two EPs they released, both in 2015, then they split up. And the website for the label handling their merch is dead.
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GreatMrPopo posted:I've been trying out metal for the past 2 years or so, I thought being a stoner, I'd like stoner/doom metal, but bands like Bong Ripper and Weedeater just didn't appeal to me when I first started hearing them. But then I found SunnO))), Thou, and Canopy, which all fall from drone to sludgey doom, and I was willing to explore the genre again. I forgot how I found this, but I've had it wishlisted until recently, and I love the selection of bands here; I purchase this right after I missed Bandcamp Friday Jack Harlon and the Dead Crows
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I saw Potion and Conan the other night and it was pretty great. Pallbearer were also playing but I left when they started because I don't like em HenryJLittlefinger posted:Jack Harlon and the Dead Crows Also, Holy Serpent. Laserface fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Mar 16, 2025 |
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Mar 16, 2025 01:50
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Darthemed posted:
 (Seriously, I love your write ups, it was just the crisp cymbals just really sounds like something Patrick would say.)
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Mar 16, 2025 02:31
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A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about dropping out of life with bong in hand, it’s also about following the smoke to the riff-filled land.
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Mar 16, 2025 02:47
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Lol.
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 Abysmal Grief - Strange Rites of Evil (2015) Italian power doom, with dirty vocals and a touch of death. Heavy on theatricality and imitation(?) organs, carried more on its commitment to building the mood than riff strength. I mean, every song runs however many minutes and 13 seconds, with the last track having a duration of 13:13, that's how deep in the bit they are. If you like Acid Witch, give this a try, though it doesn't come with a Halloween decoration to hang in the window. They've been around since '96, and they've only gotten more prolific...sort of. Four of their last seven releases are compilations, while the other three are live albums, but those seven releases all came out in the last three years, so... your call on how impressive that is. The LPs they had to follow this came out in 2015 and 2018, so they had a regular schedule there, for a while.
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 If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest (2012) Instrumental post-metal from Ohio, with some heavy psych and light doom elements. Nice variety across the nine songs, touching on riff swims, rhythmic counterpointing, textural explorations, quiet-loud-quiet shifts, and more. Quite a bit of tremolo guitar for the style, and not as much percussive showing off as you might expect. Their most recent release was a single last year, after an eight-year gap. Given how ecologically-minded they seem, maybe they've just been too depressed to put material together.
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 Suffer Yourself - Ectoplasm (2016) Currently Swedish, originally Ukrainian, blackened funeral death doom. Thick bass grinds, guttural vocals, slowly working through riff repetitions while building up the intensity, and big, arcing guitar wails. Oh, and some Twin Peaks sample drops. The drummer gets to use more range than regular funeral doom typically engenders, though she is in the usual gear for a lot of the album. Good engineering, very attentive to the acoustics and little sound design touches, giving every instrument used some experimentation with its audio qualities at some point in the album. Their most recent release was in 2023.
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 King Goblin - Cryptozoology (2016) Japanese stoner psych sludge doom. Raw growls, fuzzy noodles of guitar, weird swerves into weirder breakdowns, unconstrained soloing, and the drummer going off in sudden eruptions. It's an almost Acid Bath-y soup of styles in its best moments, though a lot less agressive than either of their albums. Think more like the bluesier side of Church of Misery, or their cover of "For Madman Only", but with a more improvisational touch. And in classic fashion, they save their longest song (which is about twice the length of the second-place on) for the closing spot. The band's been around since '97, their first LP was in 2007, and this was their second. Aside from those, their discography is all demos and a compilation.
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I get to see High on Fire for the first time tonight and I’m fuckin’ stoked. I’ve wanted to see them for years but every time they came to Seattle I couldn’t go, and then I moved across the state and nobody tours here so I figured my chances were blown (without traveling). And now they’re playing a small local venue, that I used to watch my high school buddies’ punk bands play in!
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:I get to see High on Fire for the first time tonight and I’m fuckin’ stoked. I’ve wanted to see them for years but every time they came to Seattle I couldn’t go, and then I moved across the state and nobody tours here so I figured my chances were blown (without traveling). And now they’re playing a small local venue, that I used to watch my high school buddies’ punk bands play in! They’re sick live, you’re gonna love it.
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:I get to see High on Fire for the first time tonight and I’m fuckin’ stoked. I’ve wanted to see them for years but every time they came to Seattle I couldn’t go, and then I moved across the state and nobody tours here so I figured my chances were blown (without traveling). And now they’re playing a small local venue, that I used to watch my high school buddies’ punk bands play in! Hell yeah man, that's gonna be a good show. Take some good earplugs.
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I haven't seen them in a few years now but they were on the top of their game when I saw them and they only seem to be getting better. The new album is a marked improvement over the last two as well. It'll be a good time!
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:I get to see High on Fire for the first time tonight and I’m fuckin’ stoked. I’ve wanted to see them for years but every time they came to Seattle I couldn’t go, and then I moved across the state and nobody tours here so I figured my chances were blown (without traveling). And now they’re playing a small local venue, that I used to watch my high school buddies’ punk bands play in! Nice! I saw them last year at a tiny venue in Chicago (Sleeping Village). I was front row, and got a pick that a roadie kicked my way after the show. My sister-in-law got the setlist. It was a great time.
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CornHolio posted:Nice! I saw them last year at a tiny venue in Chicago (Sleeping Village). I was front row, and got a pick that a roadie kicked my way after the show. My sister-in-law got the setlist. It was a great time. "We don't normally do a two hour version of Cometh the Storm but some jerk pinched the setlist..."
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It fuckin’ ruled. High on Fire were powerhouses, sounded great, the drummer is incredible. The openers, No Graves from Yakima, WA and Merlock from Spokane, were also rad. Slower doom-type stuff but fit in real well. And I absolutely had earplugs, and even had spares for buddies - I don’t mess around with hearing now. (I have tinnitus and probably got it from punk shows as a teen).
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:the drummer is incredible. In case you didn't already know, he's Coady and also plays with Big Business and Melvins. He also sings. And yes he's incredible.
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:It fuckin’ ruled. High on Fire were powerhouses, sounded great, the drummer is incredible. yeah coady is sick as hell, I wish HoF would come out albuquerque way cuz I haven't seen them in a while i got to see sleep at launchpad, a venue I've been on stage at once, and that was a killer show MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Mar 20, 2025 |
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 Black Magician - Nature Is the Devil's Church (2012) Gothic power doom from Liverpool. Very... pronounced vocals, with everything moving at a pretty plodding pace. The theatricality is maybe a little overwrought, but that feels like exactly what they were going for, especially when the electric organ kicks in. The guitarist really steps up when it's time to solo, and the performances build on and draw from each other in an cumulative effort, at least when they break out of first gear, which isn't that often. Plus they've got riffs that are still living in my head over a decade later ("Four Thieves Vinegar" being the main culprit). This was their debut, they put out an EP the following year, and nothing since then. I'll always remember them for their Facebook post saying something along the lines of 'Stop contacting us about black magic and that nonsense!'. The vocalist moved to Norway, the bassist went on to a band with only a demo to their name, the drummer's now in Coltsblood (I haven't heard them, are they good?), and the guitarist gave me the happiest surprise by turning out to now be in Ninkharsag, who kick rear end musically.
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 Conclave - Dawn of Days (2021) Sludge doom from Massachusetts. Sturdy riffs, if not the most polished, and they get a good grindy timbre out of the strings. Most of the album is in roughly the same tempo, until the last couple of tracks, but the hooks are sharp enough to make up for that, and the change-ups usually come in the form of bittersweet acoustic breaks, so it's not a hard listen. They also don't lean too heavily on the vocals, and the music opens up more when they drop that element. This is their second LP, and their most recent release.
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 Bismuth - The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef (2018) Two-piece UK funeral doom with drone stylings. Great stuff for fans of echoes. You've got bass, drums, and vocals, and lots of processing. Since it's such a skeletal piece for much of its run-time, the amount of effects they use really stands out, but thankfully it all works in service to the mood, which is heavy enough to fit the subject matter. The band's had a split with Gnaw Their Tongues, which should give some idea of their weight class. This was their second LP, but they've since released two collaborations with Vile Creature, the most recent of those being in 2022.
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Desert Rock United lists 2024's BEST Stoner Rock Albums You Need to Hear Now! A lot of good choices here. Edit: Dune Pilot, Black Sky Giant, Greenleaf, and Fu Manchu are all my jam. Nit Wit Dog Shit fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Mar 23, 2025 |
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 Doomraiser - Reverse (Passagio Inverso) (2015) Italian doom. Feels a lot like doom rock in the tempos, vocals, approach to soloing, and general energy, but thanks to being mixed and mastered by Billy Anderson, it's heavy and crunchy enough to be firmly metal in regards to the actual instrumentation. It makes for an uneven blending, but when they drop the vocals and just focus on letting things cook, they turn out some good stretches. The vocals aren't outright bad, but when the songs are being structured to allow verse delivery, they feel notably more limited in what they can pull off, and since most of the songs are over eight minutes long, they all end up slipping into instrumental stretches at some point. This was the band's fourth studio LP, and they've put out two more since, with the latest dropping in 2024.
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 Skjaldmaer - Skjaldmaer (2015) UK stoner doom (minus weed references), sometimes drone doom. No credited members, but it has the feeling of being a one-person effort. In the drone doom mode, there's low, hissing vocals under rolling waves of reverbed strings, similarly submerged percussion, very low tempo. Not complicated, but it doesn't need to be. The shift to more stony doom mainly shows in doubling how often chords are struck, though waves of sustain are kept going under those divisions, and the riffs in this MO aren't bad, for all their chunkiness. This was the band's only release, unfortunately. I would have liked to hear how things developed on a follow-up.
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 Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig (2015) German nautical funeral doom. I'm a little shocked they don't have a song called "Burial at Sea" anywhere in their discography. Strong, driving riffs, with a willingness to swap off between vocal presence and going fully instrumental, and the softer melodic passages are just as strong as the heavier stretches (maybe stronger, depending on your mood/tastes). The vocalist can get some great force behind his delivery, which is usually growled or roughly roared. This is a concept album, and it does feel all of one piece, though it has a respectably wide range of moods to it. Also notable for being a doom metal album with a song titled "The Weedmen" that's not about marijuana? This was the band's fourth studio LP, and they wouldn't have another one until 2023, which is also their most recent release.
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Darthemed posted:Also notable for being a doom metal album with a song titled "The Weedmen" that's not about marijuana? Authentic to the book for which the album is named. Which also features chapters such as “The Weed-Choked Sea” and “The Light in the Weed”
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 Caged Wolves - Acts of Nature Beyond Control (2021) Austrian stoner metal, leaning into the psych influence. The first three songs have vocals, the last three are instrumental versions of the same. Strong handling of build-up, riffing, and interplay, with rowdy soloing providing some of the finest moments. The warmth to the songs turns them more towards desert rock territory than stoner doom, an impression reinforced by the drummer's rev-up fills. This was the band's third EP, and they put out their first LP last November. skasion posted:Authentic to the book for which the album is named. Which also features chapters such as “The Weed-Choked Sea” and “The Light in the Weed”
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 Hiding Sun - Sol Måne (2018) Two-piece instrumental French sludge. One of the members is the drummer for Cult of Occult, the other is a former member (so probably Jérôme Colombelli, though there's no credits given on the BC page). This album consists of one approximately thirty-minute track, sprawling and wandering through its run. The percussion and strings both have full, powerful presences, really filling the acoustic space from top to bottom thanks to some extensive feedback usage. With how strong the drive of the song is, it really doesn't feel like its half-hour duration, to the point where I did a genuine double-take at the post-music silence. This was their only release.
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 Satori Junk - Satori Junk (2015) Italian stoner doom. Slow burn bass waves are balanced with guitar noodling and a drummer who's not content to just keep time. With the vocalist taking long breaks between verse blocks (and usually using heavy distortion effects when he does pop in), the music is much more focused on digging down into the groove than on providing sing-along material. They've got some horror movie sample involving a hot dog, and they drop a Manson clip in at one point, so someone having a coughing fit to start off a track is about the only thing this otherwise quite solid debut album is missing. The band had an EP before this, and they've put out two more LPs, the most recent being in 2024.
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 Buensuceso - Inner Winter (2013) Spanish atmospheric post-doom. Well-constructed songs with great work by the drummer, with sustained tension and a good ear for how far to let the guitar and bass fill out their space further strengthening the moods. They keep things instrumental (aside from one spoken-word passage), but the titling of the tracks, which doesn't feel the need to stop at a dozen words, gives some extra flavoring in place of lyrics. This was their first release, their most recent one was an LP in February of 2020.
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Darthemed posted:
It's back with redux versions and industro mix versions of the tracks and a demo track. https://dronealoneprods.bandcamp.com/album/the-sorrow-of-being-immaculate-i-church-music-for-satanists-redux
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Ahab are very good imo. The Giant is my favourite record of theirs but nothing they've put out is bad.
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 Half Gramme of Soma - Marche au Noir (2014) Greek heavy rock. The singer gets a lot of usage out of switches between rough and clean singing, which actually fits well with the rest of the instrumentation. The rhythm guitar has that immediately recognizable fuzz from hundreds of stoner rock album, while the lead takes a much cleaner tone to cut right through it. When they slow down into moody build-up, the music feels more muscular; when they switch into more of a desert rock/chilled psych thing, it's much more boppy. They do both well, but (unsurprisingly) I dig the slower material more. This EP followed their debut LP, and their most recent release was in 2022. Rexxed posted:It's back with redux versions and industro mix versions of the tracks and a demo track.
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 Groak - Masticator EP (2015) UK sludge. More on the 'punk misery' side of that style than on the 'feedback blues' one, though the latter isn't absent from their playing. Ragged vocal bursts counterpoint the slow-moving, long-held bass growls, while the drums have an expansiveness in the mix that helps give the music a little more oomph. The way it sounds fits with their self-described DIY style, but for likely being self-financed, what rough spots there go right along with the moods and thrust of the songs. This was one of their first releases. They've put out a few splits, a single, and another EP (that being their most recent, in 2020), but no LP yet.
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I'd like to take this moment to advise yall to check out Temple Fang. This album is especially good: https://templefang.bandcamp.com/album/fang-temple Heavy melodic shoegazey psych. Think Elder but with a bluesier guitar and less prog, think Slift but not as gritty and abrasive. Clean vocals, very present bass that sounds a lot like Mario Lalli's stuff.
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 Bait - Sunburst (2015) German sludge with a dash of death thrash. Or I don't know poo poo and it's crusty black metal. That's more likely, but that also means it's BM which can be mistaken for sludge (Plex has the Dystopia/Noothgrush/Bongzilla/Corrupted split as one of the top three most similar-sounding albums), so still possibly of interest here. It moves pretty fast, crunches through its riffs, swerves into slow breakdowns, and works with some very hooky beats. They cover a lot of stylistic territory in just five songs, not running low on energy at any point, but also not going into a non-stop frenzy. The band has put out one album since, in 2020.
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 Ssanahtes - Debut EP (2014) Stony French sludge. It slides around the bases without much tethering, from fairly sunny stoner rock to bellowing detuned bass rattles to doom breaks with church bells tolling in the background to desert rock (hell, maybe full-on throwback heavy metal) shredding. The musicians seem equally comfortable in any of those approaches, and the untroubled shifts they make from one to another are maybe the most impressive part of the whole assemblage. As they admit in the liner notes, it was all bedroom recordings, but it sounds good, and doesn't skimp on the low end or get tinny in the upper registers. I'm not sure at what point in their discography this came out, but they only put out one LP, in 2018.
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