Track Of The Day - The Fallen Edition
The opening track from Alabama Thunderpussy's 2006 album "Open Fire" which kinda straddles both stoner metal & heavy metal simultaneously.
Los Angeles Stoner Metal.
Crushingly heavy female-fronted doom metal from San Francisco, USA.
New Orleans stoner metal featuring Exhorder/Alabama Thunderpussy/Trouble front man Kyle Thomas.
Doomy gothic metal from New York, USA.
Epic doom metal from Stockholm, Sweden.
Early sludge metal from California, USA.
Glorious psychedelic funeral doom metal from Birmingham, England.
A crushing metalcore-infused stomper from the Atlanta progressive sludge masters.
Epic doom metal from Germany.
A short blast of crusty Californian sludge metal goodness.
A true sludgy highlight of tight tough heaviness:
A twisted horrifying experimental noise-sludge highlight, not for those with the faint of heart or a fear of bugs:
Raging sludge with lyrics describing the need to live in a hole and hide from outside society:
A 15-minute Neurosis-like progressive post-sludge Crusade that should've been considered part of the album rather than a hidden track:
A relentless doomy swansong for this band's career:
An early example of the stoner metal sound from this Canadian heavy metal outfit featuring plenty of "Vol 4" era Black Sabbath influence..
A very solid mid-80's traditional doom metal number from Californian heavy metal icons Cirith Ungol.
Although I enjoy this comeback for both this band and my motivation to dive into doom metal/death-doom, it's this standout that as upbeat as the mid-90s albums of Katatonia and Amorphis that really hits the spot. I know, it's just my speed-enjoying self talking.
An immensely atmospheric single-track funeral doom metal monster from Seattle, USA.
The opener from Windhand's self-titled 2012 debut drew a line in the sand for other female-fronted doom bands.
Crushing melodic death-doom from two of the guys from Katatonia, one of whom would unfortunately lose the growling part of his voice afterwards:
Norwegian epic extreme gothic/symphonic death metal that should be no trouble for fans of Epica, Septicflesh, and Tristania:
The eerie slowness of Clouds is nicely represented in this live EP: