Your way in
Death-doom 1990
Guttural vocals at funeral tempo. Bands from Yorkshire invented the combination and then invented gothic metal too.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 3
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 50-90 bpm
- Song length
- 6-10 min
- Written about
- Grief, Romantic despair, Mortality, Religion, mournfully
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Death-doom | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 80% | ×3 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Grief, Romantic despair, Mortality, Religion, mournfully | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 86% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 7. Death-doom ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Entombed, Left Hand Path 1990
Entombed - Left Hand Path. The first twenty seconds explain the entire Swedish sound.
- 2The one to put on first
My Dying Bride, Turn Loose the Swans 1993
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans. The violin matters as much as the guitar.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Death metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Death-doom's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-metal / atmospheric sludge 86%
Sludge with post-rock logic: long songs, crescendos and instrumental passages. Neurosis invented the form.
5 steps from Death-doom, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Post-metal / atmospheric sludge -
Emo 84%
Hardcore in which the lyrics turn confessional and the voice cracks. The term started as an insult and became an entire decade of fashion.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 8 steps from Death-doom.
The way into Emo
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 7.
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. Worth 2 of 7.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 7.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.