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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A growl or a shriek When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 100% | ×3 |
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Grief, Romantic despair, Mortality, Religion, mournfully | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, about 1 out of 6. Death-doom leads the next by 7 points. 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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DSBM 93%
Depressive suicidal black metal: slower tempos, wailing guitars and desperate vocals. The subject matter is heavy, and the genre is debated inside the scene itself.
4 steps from Death-doom, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into DSBM -
Sludge metal 92%
Doom plus filthy hardcore: feedback, screamed vocals and a guitar tone like Louisiana mud.
4 steps from Death-doom, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Sludge metal
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
- A growl or a shriek put 78 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 6.
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 6.
- 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 6.
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.