Doom metal is a musical direction, an extreme style of metal.
Doom-metal is hard and heavy metal music. The basis is classical metal instruments: guitar, bass and drums. This music is apocalyptic, painful, as a rule, very monotonous (especially when it comes to the traditional groove-based doom), slow and not always melodic. The guitars are often low-pitched, the bass is pumpy, the riffs are rough, there are characteristic guitar slips, screeching feedbacks, solo trills that fade away, etc.
Classic doom can be recognized by the specifics of its sound (development and weighting of the hard rock beginnings of Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Bedemon, partly - blues elements against the background of depressing guitars, groove (groove - routine, looping, a certain rhythm), sudden rock and roll accelerations etc.).
As for the concept of death/doom metal, it is a slightly different path of metal development, in the modern order of things, which does not have much in common with traditional doom and classic doom metal. However, this is a kind of extreme and original genre.
Of the musical projects of the doom-metal direction in Ukraine, the most famous are Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Reverend Bizarre, Krux and Cathedral.
Originally, doom metal was lyrically based on describing feelings like hopelessness experienced by music creators. Doom ideas are a legacy of the hippie era: spiritual influences, songs about the use of drugs and hallucinogens (in some cases their effect on the human imagination), sometimes ultra-pessimistic songs about war. Nowadays, doom metal hasn't changed much. It still focuses on the feelings of hopelessness experienced by musicians. However, most of the lyrics are now written on a more personal level, addressing less global issues: personal feelings of love, sadness, loss, loss of faith, etc. Texts about religion can also be considered as a potential source of poetic inspiration, but they are given only in as background music. Foreign languages - Latin, Spanish, French, Norwegian, sometimes even Japanese - have gained popularity in doom songs and add a whimsical artistic touch to the sound. Doom lyrics should not be confused with black lyrics. Religious ideas may form the basis for the lyrics of some teams, but usually the reference to God or another deity is symbolic and should not be taken literally.
Varieties of Doom metal
Having gone through several stages of growth and progress during its existence, doom metal now takes many forms. Just like related genres - doom/death and funeral doom. Also, there appeared a lot of offshoots, quite far from doom and doom/death, like dark-metal, sorrow-metal, the beauty and the beast…
Traditional Doom
Doom-metal in its original form is music that was formed by the mid-'80s, influenced by the early work of such dark and leisurely hard rockers of the previous decade as Black Sabbath, Bedemon and Pentagram, but already based on the heaviness and harshness of real metal. . The most prominent pioneers of this genre are Saint Vitus and Candlemass, although in those years there were many other talented and influential doom-groups (Trouble (still exists), The Obsessed, Pagan Altar, etc.), alas, they did not receive such widely known… Classic doom-metal is notable for its specific technique and sound, called "groove" - that is, the legacy of the monotonous and viscous hard rock of the '70s a la Black Sabbath. These are repetitive, rough, sometimes atonal riffs, separate elements of blues-rock, powerful, “swaying” bass and even psychedelic trends. Some bands of the classical school of doom-metal prefer from time to time to "dilute" the slowness and viscosity in the sound with dynamic, rock'n'roll-specific inserts - but this is not at all an obligatory element of such music. Most representatives of the traditional doom prefer clean vocals (apparently paying tribute to the "great" Ozzy Osbourne), among the same classics one can also find more hoarse/rough singing (Saint Vitus, Dream Death and the younger ones - Cathedral). The atmosphere in the music of classical doom artists is very diverse - from cold, epic grief to despair and rage. Of course, unlike the same stoner-rock, doom music does not express positive emotions. Today, as before, traditional doom-metal is far from popular, but this does not prevent it from remaining one of the current and influential forces of the underground. The most prominent representatives are Candlemass, Reverend Bizarre, Saint Vitus, Count Raven, Solitude Aeturnus and Warhorse.
Black Doom
Black doom is a style that combines elements of black metal and doom metal. Usually the vocals are screaming and shrike, and the guitars are heavily distorted, which is typical for black. But it also has the slow tempo and dissonance that is characteristic of doom metal. The lyrics cover themes of nature, nihilism, depression. The most famous members of this style are the early Dolorian and the early Katatonia. Typical representatives: Forgotten Tomb, Barathrum, Bethlehem, Woods of Ypres, Nortt and Gallhammer.
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