Your way in
Funeral doom 1991
The slowest metal in existence: under 40 bpm, organ, guttural vocals and fifteen-minute songs. Music for a single chord.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 1
- Melody
- 4
- Where from
- Finland / USA
- Tempo
- 25-50 bpm
- Song length
- 10-25 min
- Written about
- Death, Grief without consolation, Ritual, Deep time
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Funeral doom | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 1 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1991 | 92% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 97% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 2 answers you gave, weighted pace 2, era 1 out of 3. Funeral doom leads the next by 3 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
Skepticism, Stormcrowfleet 1995
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet. Listen at night, on headphones, in one sitting.
- 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 Funeral 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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Dream pop 87%
The same reverb haze, but with the melody left on the surface and the tempo slower.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Funeral doom.
The way into Dream pop -
Indie pop / twee 87%
Sweet melodies, shy vocals, clean guitars. The gentle reaction to rock machismo.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Funeral doom.
The way into Indie pop / twee
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 3.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 3.
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.