Your way in
Doom metal 1980
The branch most faithful to Black Sabbath: slow tempos, thick riffs and crushing atmosphere. The weight comes from space, not speed.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 2
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- UK / USA
- Tempo
- 50-110 bpm
- Song length
- 6-12 min
- Written about
- Despair, Drugs, The occult, Ruin and aftermath
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Doom metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 2 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1980 | 56% | ×1 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Despair, Drugs, The occult, Ruin and aftermath | 0% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 72% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 7. Doom 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
- 1The one to put on first
Saint Vitus, Saint Vitus 1984
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late. The title says exactly how the band felt.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is Doom metal's own entry point. After it come Doom 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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Noise rock 65%
Alternate tunings, feedback as an instrument and rhythm sections that hit like machinery. The grandfather of sludge.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Doom metal.
The way into Noise rock -
Hard rock 64%
Louder volume, thicker riffs, vocals pushed to the edge. Heavy metal splits off from it, but hard rock stays closer to the blues and to the chorus.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Doom metal.
The way into Hard rock
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
- 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 7.
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. Worth 2 of 7.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 7.
- Being young and out late put 115 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 7.
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.