Doom metal

The doom metal is a form of heavy metal which emerged like sub-genus in the middle of the Années 1980. The doom metal is slow and heavy, pessimistic, often evoking an atmosphere of darkness, despair and misery.

This sub-genus is strongly influenced by the beginnings of Black Sabbath: several tracks of this time, including the song Black Sabbath , are regarded as embryonic or prototypic songs of doom metal. Many the tracks of their third album, Master off Reality (1971), in common seem to have with what is today considered doom metal, with tracks like " Sweet Leaf ", " Into The Void ", and " Serious Children off the " who had as a characteristic the Guitare of Tony Iommi and the low one of Geezer Butler granted in C sharp for heavier fronts and cords less tended for the wounded fingers of the musician.

In spite of that, Black Sabbath was not the only influence. Many groups of doom metal began only a few years after the beginnings of Black Sabbath, of which much came from country where Black Sabbath was not yet popular.

History

The doom metal belongs to the oldest forms of the heavy metal, drawing its influences in the beginnings of Black Sabbath, regarded by much as one of the first groups of heavy metal. At the beginning of the Years 1970, Black Sabbath and the American group Pentagram composed and played a slow and heavy metal style which (in the Années 1980) would be called later doom metal by the fans and the musicians inspired by the style.

Starting from the end of the year 1970 and 1980, groups like Disorder, Holy Vitus, Candlemass, Cathedral, Pentagram and Witchfinder General largely contributed to the formation of the doom metal as a kind with whole share. The music played by these artists can be described as being at the same time inspired by the music of Black Sabbath, especially in the case of Witchfinder General, but also by that of the artists of NWOBHM. The slowness of the doom metal is sometimes seen like a reaction to the increasingly fast tempos of the Thrash metal, Power metal, and Speed metal of the years 1980.

The success of the doom metal is related to the group Swedish Candlemass, that the press metal regards as one of the most important and influential groups of doom metal. Their album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) is regarded as one of the exit which defines the kind. According to the members of the traditional scene doom metal, the prototypic group of doom the metal would be Saint Vitus, who left their album éponyme in 1984 - two years before the doom metal was recognized like a kind in the press metal. Saint Vitus remains always one of the most influential groups of the kind.

The doom metal continued to develop with the beginning of the Années 1990. The catch was created by one of the most influential groups of doom metal of the beginning of the year 1990 to today: Cathedral, especially thanks to their album Forest off Equilibrium , in 1991. Although it was an exit of doom traditional metal, this album opened a great line of various influences and directions for the following groups.

Some groups of Death metal took as a starting point the doom metal and slowed down their music while playing of their style of starting music. Examples are Sorrow and Paradise Lost, on their first album. A certain number of groups started to combine its original of the doom metal with that of the Death metal and others sub-genus S extrèmes of metal, or even still with Punk hardcore. The first group which mixed the doom metal with the death metal is perhaps Winter, heavily influenced by Celtic Frost, although this style, known under the name of death/doom later, became generally associated and popularized by three groups English: Paradise Lost, My Dying Attaches and Anathema. These three groups are sometimes called " The Big Three " ( Three Large ) by the fans of the death/doom in the same way as Carbuncle, Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer are called " The Big Furnace off Thrash " by the fans of the Thrash metal.

Although the doom traditional metal and the death/doom remained the two principal movements of the doom metal, the kind developed according to much more styles in the Années 1990. With the beginning of the year 1990, European groups like Thergothon and Funeral pushed the principle of the death/doom to the extrème. This truly slow and often very dark style is now known under the name of funeral doom or funeral doom metal . With the same moment, American groups like Crowbar and Eyehategod mixed certain aspects of the doom metal with influences hardcore and punk, creating a new branch of the doom metal: the sludge doom . Earth, the group of Seattle (not to be confused with the first name of Black Sabbath), was the pioneer group of the drone doom , which is to date the slowest form of the doom metal and minimalist.

A certain number of groups, in particular The Gathering and Theater off Tragedy, took dimensioned more slackened of Paradise Lost, and started with much experimentation with singers and keyboards and created a kind generally more accessible called by some gothic metal . Although this kind is generally regarded as a style inspired of certain groups of doom metal, he is not regarded a sub-genus of the doom metal, but as a kind with whole share. The gothic metal is often seen like a mixture between metal and the Gothic music.

There are as assertions as a homogeneous mixture between the doom metal, the stoner rock'n'roll and the rock'n'roll psychedelic exists, although these kinds developed in parallel. The groups of stoner rock'n'roll like Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Mondo Generator and Queens off the Stone Age share several characteristics with the groups of doom metal, of which a heavy sound and a strong influence of Black Sabbath, but they generally have a different objective. While the groups of doom metal aim at a dark atmosphere and topics, the stoner rock'n'roll tries to give to the public a feeling pleasure with a sound psychedelic. A certain number of groups of doom metal, on the other hand, like Cathedral and Sleep, combined the doom metal with psychedelic influences, creating this manner a sound which can be regarded by certain as a hybrid form of the doom metal and rock'n'roll psychedelic.

Nowadays, the style of doom original metal without Grunt S is generally called " doom traditional ". One of the most important groups of doom traditional of these last years is the group Finnish Reverend Bizarre. Another group which plays of this style is the solo project of Tony Iommi (ex- Black Sabbath), Iommi, which also included the singer of Deep Purple, Glenn Hughes, with low and the song.

Instrumentation

As much of the others sub-genera of the heavy metal, the doom metal includes/understands an instrumentation based mainly on the voice, the guitar, the low one and the battery, with fronts of guitar heavy, strong, and serious. This basic instrumentation is an important characteristic of the doom metal, and it is followed in the large majority of its sub-genera, with the notable exception of the drone doom, which always does not use a battery. Some groups of doom metal, especially the new groups, use keyboards. In the traditional doom, on the other hand, the keyboards are not generally used.

The vocal techniques used in the doom metal are generally clear voices (or voice without Grunt S or another form of distortion) except in the death/doom, the funeral doom, and certain groups of sludge/doom where the words are growlées and in the drone doom where the songs are often instrumental and where the words are sometimes spoken. Fast tempos are rare in the songs, the doom metal being based mainly on average and slow tempos. Although this practice is more often associated with the gothic metal, a certain number of groups of doom metal, as My Dying Bride or Funeral, also used Violon S in their music. But in general, the doom metal remains a kind very based on the guitar.

Sub-genera

Avantgarde doom

The avantgarde doom is a sub-genus which gathers groups of doom metal to the indefinable styles, atypical and experimental, with artistic small keys. Some examples are Esoteric and Unholy. The avantgarde doom can also include groups of Avant-garde metal which are not doom metal in a strict sense term, but which has connections and/or influences since/towards the doom metal. These groups can also be classified as a sludge atmospheric or sludge melody . But more the share of the groups of this sub-genus evolved to what is described like post-metal , which is largely influenced by the sound of the avantgarde doom and the sludge doom.

Black/doom

The black/doom is a combination of the elements of the Black metal and doom metal. As in the funeral doom, the topics often turn around nature, of the melancholy, sadness or of the depression. The music is characterized by the use of cries suitable for the black metal, of the fronts of black metal or doom metal subjected to a distortion as well as fronts of guitar clean . Examples of groups generally associated with this sub-genus are Dolorian, Love Dregs Bleeding, Beatrik, Dark Inferna, and Cantar. Other groups of black experimental metal as Agalloch arrived at a similar style. Apparently, this sub-genus of the doom metal developed at the end of the Années 1990.

Death/doom

The death/doom is a mixture of the elements of the death metal, in particular the Grunt associated with the kind, and with the slowness of the doom metal. Many off regards Cathedral as the pioneer of the sub-genus with his album Forest Equilibrium . Generally, the three groups recognized to have made evolve/move the sub-genus are My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, and Anathema (on their the first two albums, Serenades and The Silent Enigma ).

Drone doom

The drone doom is a sub-genus of the doom metal named according to the musical technique of the bumblebee ( drone in English). As known under the name of drone metal , the drone doom is a kind even more minimalist and inaccessible as the funeral doom. Generally influenced by the Music bruitist and the ambient music, the music of the drone doom is often made up only of guitars and low serious subjected to distortion, generally with much of Reverbe applied to the final mixing. The clear topics (melody) are rare in this style. The tracks of drone doom are generally long: their intermediate duration is generally between ten minutes and a half hour. Certain CD of drone doom count only one track. An example is Sun Baked Snow Cave , an album of Boris and Merzbow, one 62 minutes total duration. The song and the battery are often absent, and the music often misses rate/rhythm with the traditional direction. As in the funeral doom, the drone doom generally stresses despair and the vacuum, although topics cryptic and apocalyptic are also frequent. The creation of the drone doom as a sub-genus is often allotted to Stephen O' Malley, the innovator of the kind very influenced by Earth, which took part with many acts of the same kind, including Burning Witch, Khanate and Sunn O))). Sunn O))) and their predecessor Earth can be regarded as the two most influential groups of the style.

Epic Doom

The doom epic is comparable with the traditional doom, with stronger medieval and/or fantastic influences in the words. Those are sung in a way much more narrative, epic, and sometimes even theatrical. The doom epic is inspired mainly by traditional metal like Manowar and Iron Maiden, like by Black Sabbath. The most influential groups playing of this style are Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus. A certain number of groups which adopted this style came from the area from West Yorkshire, in England, towards the end of the year 1990.

Funeral doom

The funeral doom is a style which pushes the slowness of the doom metal to the extrème and stresses an atmosphere of despair and vacuum. This style can be seen like a departure of the death/doom, slowing down the music even more, and frequently incorporating influences of the ambient music, by creating a sound which is distorted and appeurant, but often also revor. The words are generally growlées, and much more erased by the instruments than in the other styles, and are rather used like an additional texture. this style was initially founded by Thergothon, then later by Skepticism and Funeral. Modern examples are Monolithe, Mournful Congregation and Shape off Despair.

Sludge doom

Stoner doom

The stoner doom is close to the traditional doom, but it is actually an hybrid of the doom metal and stoner rock'n'roll. Examples: Cathedral, Sleep, High one Fire and YOB. The group Australia N of stoner doom use the " term; stoom" to describe this kind of music.

Traditional Doom

The “traditional” doom is the doom metal in its purest form. It is a slow metal, based on fronts " reductions-joie" strongly influenced by Black Sabbath as well as NWOBHM. Four waves until were recognized there in the history of the traditional doom. The first started with the originateurs of the kind, the groups proto-doom Black Sabbath and Pentagram. The second wave was in the middle of the Années 1980 especially in work of Saint Vitus and Candlemass. The vague troisème started with the success of the first album of Cathedral, Forest off Equilibrium . The last wave was most recent and is often associated with the group Reverend Bizarre.

List groups

See also: List of the groups of doom metal

Internal bonds

Heavy metal
Black Sabbath
Death metal
Stoner metal
List of the kinds of metal

External bonds

End Slow fox trot: French-speaking site on the doom
File Doom/Stoner/Sludge on Eklektik (www.eklektik-rock.com)

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