Your way in
Drone metal 1993
Sustained notes at extreme volume, with almost no rhythm. You listen with your body more than your ears.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 1
- Melody
- 1
- Where from
- Seattle, USA
- Tempo
- 10-40 bpm
- Song length
- 15-60 min
- Written about
- None, usually, Ritual, Physical sensation rather than emotion
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Why this one
| You said | Drone metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | instrumental | 80% | ×3 |
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 1993 | 72% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | None, usually, Ritual, Physical sensation rather than emotion | 0% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 1 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 77% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 8. Drone metal leads the next by 2 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
Saint Vitus, Saint Vitus 1984
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late. The title says exactly how the band felt.
- 2The one to put on first
Earth, Earth 2 1993
Earth - Earth 2. Seventy-three minutes, three tracks, almost no change.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Doom metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Drone metal'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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NWOTHM 74%
New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal: a new generation deliberately playing like it's 1982, down to the tape production.
4 steps from Drone metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into NWOTHM -
Garage rock revival 71%
A reaction to nu metal and radio pop: crisp guitars, plain production, narrow suits. It put guitar rock back on festival bills in the 2000s.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Drone metal.
The way into Garage rock revival
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
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- 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 8.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 8.
- 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 8.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 8.
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.