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i'm a huge ETID and Acacia Strain fan so when I learned Andy Williams and Kevin Boutot were working together on Atomic Rule I was all in and I really enjoy it, and that's got me looking for more cool doom/sludge to listen to, so here I am. anyone who hasn't checked out Atomic Rule really oughta give it a spin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1PqzXO6iYU someone pointed me at Cosmic Reaper and they're great, this song in particular is phenomenal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPXhdaOdXI also currently listening to Castle Rat's new record going to go back through the thread listening to stuff
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 Vanhävd - Låt köttet dö (2018) Swedish blackened doom. Good atmosphere, in some points working a choked claustrophobic acoustic space, with the thinness of the guitar tone letting it weave and warble in a somewhat unsettling way. Elsewhere, they bring it to a more sparse and vulnerable mode, before crashing back in with the anger and gloom. Each of the songs is at least eight minutes, but they’re all paced very well, and the strengths of the musicians are shown off in the natural course of the arrangements. Special highlight in how well the drummer meshes his beats with the guitar’s ostinato. This was the band’s first release, the only other thing they’ve put out is an LP in 2022.
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I've always had an affinity for Buried At Sea. As short-lived as they were... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3jzKrMZL08
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Laserface posted:They really threw their heart and soul into becoming the most boring loving band on earth after Dead Roots Stirring didnt they? help im a ghost posted:I also liked Lore, but everything since has been thoroughly meh i cannot possibly imagine thinking this when, at a minimum, reflections exists lol 
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 Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden (2015) Philly power doom. Something about the way the songs are written makes me feel as though they’d been thinking symphonic, but channeled into the regular instrumentation (and tempos) of doom metal. The end results work well for my tastes, even if I’m flashing on the mental image of a down-tuned Rhapsody or Shadow Gallery at times. Much more often, though, I was thinking of groups like Below, Lord Vicar, and Pilgrim, so the overall impression didn’t lose much ground to the floridity, which was also allowing the music to live up to the cover art. This was the band’s first non-demo release, they most recently put out an EP this year.
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Good soup! posted:i cannot possibly imagine thinking this when, at a minimum, reflections exists lol it just all sounds exactly the same to me. none of it stands out. as soon as its over i have forgotten everything about it. Compare to Dead Roots Stirring, which immediately blew me away and still does every time I listen to it. maybe a track off Lore that feels like it didnt make the cut for DSR/Spires burn EP and the kraut-rock track off reflections, but the rest is just a huge 'meeeehhhhhh' for the record I dont think their self titled debut is that good either, but its easier to understand how they fit into this thread with that record than anything after DSR.
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 Domkraft - Seeds (2021) Swedish psych sludge. Good hooks, chunkily trippy atmospheres, and strong work with taking riff charges and rocketing them up. There’s distortion loaded up on every instrument (except the bass, oddly enough), and though this results in the cymbals sounding like they’re wrapped in pillows, it also works to the overall baked and fried feel of the songs. Some generally ‘90s-feeling energy keeps things on the more raw end of expression, with most of the vocals spent in wails and shouts, and there are a few moments where they pick up some Lightning Bolt-ish energy. Overall, an odd but enjoyable strain of sludge. This was the band’s third LP, their fourth came in 2023, and they put out a Ramones cover single this year.
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Darthemed posted:
This is awesome!
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Darthemed posted:
Good poo poo This song rules https://youtu.be/JNu-Boqa6wI?si=PDRjVgGvTnUSatPZ Cat Hassler fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Oct 1, 2025 |
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Those Gnome weirdos are at it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W4NXoFo53DbEFQs
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 War Iron - Precession of the Equinoxes (2011) Lightly blackened sludgy doom from Ireland. Instead of the usual quartet lineup of GBVD, they opted to drop the guitar in favor of a second bass; no surprise, this gives them some extra heaviness even in neutral. A couple of the songs have kind of an Ommadon thing going, where it’s not ambient enough that I would freely call it a soundscape, but it does hit such a feel of ‘let’s just sink into this tone morass’ that the term is functionally applicable. There are clear beats and riffs, the vocals are matched to the instrumental rhythms, and there’s escalation, so it’s not a matter of indecision or post-metal nebulousness, it’s just great swampy payoff from that double-bass set-up. This was the band’s third and last LP; after an EP in 2018, they called it quits.
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It's weird that Elder fell off, when the members are still quite capable of writing good songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tT2-LPu9UE EDIT: I was under the impression that this band had Elder members in it, but I may have completely made that up in my head help im a ghost fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Oct 1, 2025 |
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 Olde - Temple (2017) Canadian sludge, on the trashy side. The lyrics aren’t great, and the vocals are handled like nuance is a detriment (though I do like the delivery of “Extinction process!” In “Centrifugal Disaster”), but the rhythm and percussion sides of the songs have a compelling energy, and there’s something that tends to morbidly intrigue me about non-US bands integrating or imitating southern rock. The drummer was in Sons of Otis, so that kind of fits, despite the southern rock influence being evidenced a lot more in the guitars and vocals. And the album keeps up a good momentum, without being stuck in one gear, so the dirt-basic feel to some of it does come off like a choice and not a limitation-imposed quality. This was the band’s second LP, they most recently put out a collab with Grale in 2023.
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 Hyde - Hyde (2020) French stoner rock. They’re a little too fixated on hammering in the choruses for the good of the songs, but the spotlighted riffs are pretty crunchy, they have a good sense of how to structure the songs, and they’re trying to spread their themes wider than the usual stoner rock, which results in both an homage to The VVitch that had me rolling my eyes, and grooving over a lengthy sample from The Big Lebowski. At the same time, they’ve got a consistent sense of their core musical character apparent each time, which honestly impresses me given that this was their first album. To me, they sound like they’ve got a bit of a ‘90s alt metal streak regularly coming through, but that could be personal bias tinting my ear canals. This is the band’s only non-demo release.
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I saw Melvins last night with dual drummers Dale & Coady Willis. It was very awesome
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Varg posted:I saw Melvins last night with dual drummers Dale & Coady Willis. It was very awesome You're drat right it was
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Varg posted:I saw Melvins last night with dual drummers Dale & Coady Willis. It was very awesome Uhg... I was supposed to go to that show, but came down with a 24 virus of some sort which hit me for a loop. I ending up taking meds that knocked me out for 12 hours or so after evacuation from both ends stopped. I'm so disappointed I couldn't go.  How was the crowd and the venue set up? I was at Arts Quest a few years ago, and as I remember it didn't seem like a the type of venue someone like Melvins would be a great fit for. Obviously I was wrong, but I was all in for the experience until whatever it was I had hit me (I blame the steak my sister gave me the day before). I'm glad it was a great show for you.
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 Trevor’s Head - Tricolossus (2016) UK three-piece proggy/psych-y/heavy rock. Not anchored too firmly to any particular side of their stylistic blend, the songs bob and weave wherever and whenever. The three musicians come off as very comfortable with each other, which blends well with the spark of retained in-the-moment unpredictability; the songs are obviously practiced, but there’s still a wild edge to them (especially in the drummer’s fills). The recording/production has a similarly untethered feel, garage-ish in some regards, polished on others, but by and large feeling like they picked the right spots to shine up and the right ones to leave in a rawer state. This was (I think) their second LP, their most recent release was an LP in 2023.
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Ruby the Hatchet have a few "live to tape" videos out, also released as an EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdG4ehdkaw (I have preordered the EP) Also, you've almost certainly seen this clip of Blessed (internet called him "Weed Jesus"), but this is the first time I've seen it with the most appropriate soundtrack: https://i.imgur.com/TNK8Onc.mp4
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 Earthcorpse - Born Bleeding (1995) Doom quintet from Guernsey. Elements of death and funeral doom are present, but it’s primarily an exercise in stoically downcast endurance, plodding along on the strings and percussion with vocals specializing in held groans to accompany it. Intermittent tempo cranks to wake things up are present, but don’t shake up the overhanging malaise. Of course, all that ‘immobilized by depression’ MO is right on point for the style, and the band plays up to it without any glaring cracks in the mood, generating a solid run of straight-faced capitulation to everything being dramatically fated for failure. This was the band’s first LP; after one more and a second EP, they split up.
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Nit Wit Dog poo poo posted:Uhg... The crowd was sorta smaller than I thought it would be, but it could be just my perception because the musikfest cafe is very wide with lots of room of the sides and doesn't go that deep back from the stage. I got right up to the 2nd row of people behind the rail on the right side so I had a good view. It's definitely a different type of room, probably much bigger than most other dates they'll be on this tour
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Varg posted:The crowd was sorta smaller than I thought it would be, but it could be just my perception because the musikfest cafe is very wide with lots of room of the sides and doesn't go that deep back from the stage. I got right up to the 2nd row of people behind the rail on the right side so I had a good view. It's definitely a different type of room, probably much bigger than most other dates they'll be on this tour I said Arts Quest, but I meant Musikfest Cafe as you stated. You described it exactly as I remember it when I was there for a LVMA show a few years back. That's why I asked about how it was set up because that venue doesn't seem to be conducive for that type of band, but they obviously pulled it off. Thanks for responding.
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 Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom (1997) Welsh stoner doom. Warmer and more traditionally psychedelic than late-‘90s Electric Wizard, but with a firm heaviness grounding the songs, while also being loaded with some of the friendliest-sounding (in the sense that I have a hard time imagining the band playing without grins on their faces) blowouts I can remember hearing in a stoner doom album. Not a clunker in the batch, something new with every track, lots of little touches to keep things popping, and a big-finish closing song. This was the band’s second LP, with their last non-compilation release being a split with Church of Misery in 2003. Most of the band reunited under the name Sigiriya in 2010.
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 The Good Hand - Atman (2014) Positive Dutch stoner rock, taking more than a few pages from the books of '60s psych for their lyrical direction, and seeing how well they can meld those with some poppy structuring to the choruses. The potentially annoying sunniness is tempered for me by just how well they handle their instruments, though some of the choruses (and how long they're held) do put a heavy thumb on that balance. When they cast away the lyrics and sink down into their grooves, or even just extend a bar into some extra drum or guitar flash after finishing a verse, they're wonderfully fluid. This was their second album, and they put out one more, in 2018.
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 Flum - Burning Scenario (2013) Italian (mostly instrumental) stoner psych heavy rock power trio. They're pushing their style out in a number of directions, trying out rowdy noise and chill low groove angles in various ratios, with some of it sounding near-improvised and other parts very deliberated. There's a credit for glockenspiel in the liner notes, something I kind of have to just shrug and 'hell yeah' at seeing. Though every song is packed with variety, there are very few moments which I would consider to be unsuccessful in terms of what they're trying at that moment. The songs may not come together individually as especially focused, but as a test bed for the band's ideas and capabilities, it's far from disappointing. This was the band's first release, and they've kept up a sporadic output over the years, with their fifth release (an EP) having come out a year ago.
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 Itus - Primordial (2020) Punched-up Canadian doom. Firm and forceful, with some stoner-ish distortion and a touch of funeral to the more sparsely instrumented portions. Nice use of contrasted vocals in spots, though the deep growl mains carry things well enough for the bulk of the EP, and the band as a unit has good interplay and balance of presence in the songs. Touches of background atmosphere, like a brief sample of rainfall, give the songs some extra dimension without distracting from the instrumental work, and all in all, it’s a very solid set of songs. This was the band’s first non-single release, and their most recent was in 2020, with their second EP. I think I'm gonna take a review break for the rest of October, so I can maximize watching horror movies. Gotta expand my ability to recognize sample drops, after all. Maybe that'll give imgbb time to adjust to the massive influx of users deserting Imgur, too.
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Saw the Melvins last night. Might be the tightest band I’ve ever seen live. Extremely, extremely cool show. I’ve never seen anyone play guitar just like Buzz Osborne does. It was also great seeing Coady Willis cut loose. I saw him with High on Fire last year, but he seems more prominent in this band. The crowd was odd and very cool. As near as I could tell, there was no main demographic. Goth teenagers to actual elderly people in wheelchairs and a ton of other random types. That was cool to see.
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Blue Raider posted:
I saw the Melvins once (on the tour where they had 2 bass players, the actual show was AWFUL as there's a reason no other band in history has had 2 bass players) but my memory of the crowd was the same: just all types of people from all walks of life, not even one "type" stood out as the most prominent. P cool to see at a metal show.
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I saw Jello and the Melvins years ago in a church basement, pre Big Business merger, and the two main things I remember from the Melvins opening set (they were opening for themselves) were first Dale's throne was so low he was nearly sitting on the floor and what happened in the back of the room. Mind you this was in Philadelphia. The second thing I remember is there was this huge redneck wearing a denim jacket with a big Confederate back patch being a tremendous rear end in a top hat in the back of the room throughout the set, like pulling endless tallboys out of the pockets on the inside of his jacket like a clown car, drinking half of them and then chucking them into the crowd, trying to start a pit in the back of the crowd by just like shoving random people including a pregnant lady, poo poo like that. Eventually this tiny skinhead got up in his face trying to get him to stop and the redneck did this like "put up your dukes" Marquess of Queensbury move as like a joke. The skinhead just flew up in the air and hit this dude right in the off button like My Cousin Vinny and the redneck went down very hard. I guess he was too drunk or unconscious to catch his fall because he landed directly on his face and just lay there. The guy taking money at the door had to come drag him away and left a legit puddle of blood where the redneck's nose hit the tile floor.
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Kvlt! posted:no other band in history has had 2 bass players Look at this insult to Man is the Bastard
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Kvlt! posted:I saw the Melvins once (on the tour where they had 2 bass players, the actual show was AWFUL as there's a reason no other band in history has had 2 bass players) but my memory of the crowd was the same: just all types of people from all walks of life, not even one "type" stood out as the most prominent. P cool to see at a metal show. Dianogah are pretty cool 
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It's Melvins you dorks.
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To be clear I wasnt saying the Melvins are bad, I love the Melvins. I was saying the specific show I saw where they had 2 bass players was bad. It was mixed awfully and the 2 bassists didnt really seperate the frequencies they were playing in so a lot of just muddy sound and too much bottom end and not in a fun Sunn way. Ive seen them on other tours and they were fantastic shows. The dual bass show just didnt work for me.
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Snowy posted:Look at this insult to Man is the Bastard Full Collapse posted:Dianogah are pretty cool see also Cop Shoot Cop and Ned's Atomic Dustbin
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pg.99 got away with three bassists for a couple years, but with three other guitars and their releases’ mastering, it’s not like it matters a ton on recording
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Kvlt! posted:To be clear I wasnt saying the Melvins are bad, I love the Melvins. I was saying the specific show I saw where they had 2 bass players was bad. It was mixed awfully and the 2 bassists didnt really seperate the frequencies they were playing in so a lot of just muddy sound and too much bottom end and not in a fun Sunn way. When I saw Melvins on tour with Isis on the final Isis tour in 2010, my fiance at the time and I walked out to the lobby partially through the Melvins set. And I religiously listened to Houdini on my paper route every day, as a kid. We just weren't feeling it, that night. Something wasn't right. IT'S OK! Not every live performance is going to be flawless, right?
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Catastrophe posted:When I saw Melvins on tour with Isis on the final Isis tour in 2010, my fiance at the time and I walked out to the lobby partially through the Melvins set. And I religiously listened to Houdini on my paper route every day, as a kid. We just weren't feeling it, that night. Something wasn't right. Wait, but does that mean that you also missed Isis for their final tour??
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secondhand dog posted:Wait, but does that mean that you also missed Isis for their final tour?? Not a chance. Just took a break out front for a while and then we were back in for their set. I don't skip out on Aaron Turner's work.
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Every band I have seen with 2 drummers (Melvins, King Gizz, O Sees) has been an absolute riot. Slipknots percussion goobers dont count.
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