Track Of The Day - The Fallen Edition

Seriously, how fucking doomy is this cover version from just eight months after Black Sabbath released the original on their 1970 self-titled debut album?? Unfortunately the rest of Flower Travellin' Band's 1970 debut album "Anywhere" doesn't contain any other metal songs to speak of & takes more of a jam band/heavy psych direction but it's a good listen nonetheless.

Check this out for a very early example of stoner metal.

Crushing melodic death-doom from Austin, Texas, in a similar vein to Insomnium and October Tide:

Another early example of the traditional doom metal subgenre I've discovered through our "Roots of Metal" project. This time from a Peruvian heavy psych band.

Melancholic doomy sludge metal:

A truly hypnotic summary of Madder Mortem's earlier melancholic progressive doom:

A brilliant Black Sabbath-inspired early stoner metal tune from 1971.

Bombastic Sabbath-inspired stoner metal with technical progressiveness:

A blend of sludgy heavy/stoner metal in this instrumental that pays tribute to Black Sabbath:

A 6-minute epic of bluesy stoner metal gone progressive:

Not many bluesy stoner metal songs stand out as a highlight for me, but this one does:

Cinematic blackened gothic metal from Portugal:

A memorable song spitting out some fast sludge fire:

A dark epic of perfect harmony and well-placed acoustics, all for some gothic fun:

The only Lars Eikind-led highlight of this Before the Dawn album, where he sings in more natural delivery in the soft verses, and it doesn't get in the way of the heavy guitar: