Your way in
Stoner doom 1991
Stoner riffs played at half speed, with thick fuzz and subject matter drawn from witchcraft and cannabis.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 2
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- USA / United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 50-90 bpm
- Song length
- 7-20 min
- Written about
- Cannabis, seriously and at length, Ritual, Science fiction and the desert, Repetition as a subject
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Stoner doom | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy. I want to feel it. 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 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 92% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, melody 1 out of 5. Stoner doom 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
Electric Wizard, Electric Wizard 1994
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone. The thickest guitar tone ever committed to tape.
- 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 Stoner doom'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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Death-doom 84%
Guttural vocals at funeral tempo. Bands from Yorkshire invented the combination and then invented gothic metal too.
4 steps from Stoner doom, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Death-doom -
DSBM 78%
Depressive suicidal black metal: slower tempos, wailing guitars and desperate vocals. The subject matter is heavy, and the genre is debated inside the scene itself.
4 steps from Stoner doom, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into DSBM
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
- 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 5.
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.