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:
F***ing brutal industrial/drone metal:
Doomy industrial metal from this supergroup of sludge metal band members:
The sludgier first half of the powerful Pantocrator:
This highlight is like a more electronic Moonspell:
Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful tracks I've heard in gothic metal, a dark serenade of lost love and depression:
The ultimate highlight of Trail of Tears' second album has riffing and vocals sounding industrial without altering much of the usual sound:
An epic banger of blackened symphonic gothic metal to begin the haunting adventure that is Trail of Tears' 3rd album:
A fantastic prime example of symphonic gothic melodeath with groove-ish riffing and a beautiful clean chorus: