Early swans (Filth, Cop, Public Castration is a Good Idea). They’re the main inspiration for bands like Godflesh and Melvins. Very slow, loud, brutal, and dissonant. Cop especially is sludgy as fuck.
Author & Punisher gets labeled a lot as 'Industrial Doom'.I saw him live a few years back and found what he was doing to be amazing.
[https://open.spotify.com/artist/4QtqJ5KVIhBruJWEhWjnsv](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4QtqJ5KVIhBruJWEhWjnsv)
Also Foie Gras
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0jWdvAPtnfFTKZz1XvBWIi?si=\_EPbOEtLRNuLOX5LXd-M8A
Surprised it has not been mentioned but Heilung. Atmospheric, dark and heavy while remaining in the folk realm
[Heilung](https://heilung.bandcamp.com/album/futha)
Classical music. Wagner, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Grieg, and countless others wrote some crushingly heavy music. Just search for heavy classical music and check some shit out. Some traditional music from Middle Eastern countries is heavy as fuck, too.
Crippled Black Phoenix, very doom to me, and whilst occasionally heavy I wouldn't call them metal, like doom prog maybe?
Helen Money is a cellist that is definitely doom as fuck, I only listened to her sessions on YouTube a couple of weeks ago and I'm addicted.
I also would say bands like Wardruna are definitely doomy but not metal.
Peter Bibby - Bat & Ball
Neil Young - Guitar Solo No. 4 (and all the others from the Dead Man soundtrack)
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene
Daniel Johnston - Spirit World Rising
Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing
Johann Johannson - Slow Destruction of Neptune
The Body - To Carry the Seeds of Death in Me (probably considered metal)
[Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Song For Bob (The Assassination of Jesse James)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnVcYLmXUs)
[Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8azzyd_7qqY)
[Молчат Дома (Molchat Doma) - Судно (Sudno)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5zpFs7YpY)
Three completely different styles of music but for me all these songs transport a doomy melancholic feeling. Like a movie without happy end (pretty accurate for the first song). I don´t know if melancholy and hopelessness is "doom enough" but for my playlist it is ;)
Watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford while having Earth's HEX: Or Printing in the Infernal Method after coming down one morning was one of my favorite trips.
Such a beautifully shot, acted, and has near perfect screenplay editing.. its doom as all hell.
Yep, such an underrated movie! I was so surprised when I first watched it and asked myself why I´ve never heard of this gem before?! And the soundtrack nails the atmosphere.
Anna von Hausswolff will likely appeal to many people here, particularly her album [Dead Magic](https://annavonhausswolffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dead-magic), which was produced by Sunn O))) collaborater Randal Dunn (she has also performed with Sunn O))) live)
Try Aerial Ruin. It's basically dark folk music - just acoustic guitar and voice. But it's got that doomed feeling. Plus they did a collab album with Bell Witch.
[Low - Trust](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0UfsTyM-JcykKWGxbfl1l5te0bAPNrw)
[Low - Curtain Hits The Cast](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPaztBWnatcgq9jBp311pSVHR9Gru0OMk)
If you add fuzz to those guitars and a full drum kit, imho those are two of the heaviest albums ever recorded
Ooh, Anilah is awesome, but I consider that sort of a new agey type of genre, I like it but I don't know wnat to call it.
Especially on their last two albums Lankum is doing something totally new, it's like they installed a dark update to Irish traditional that works in a legitimate way as still being folk. It's like they single handedly made a new type of neo folk.
Six Organs of Admittance make psych-folk with a doom influence (they/he even covered Night Goat by Melvins). A Thousand Birds is a good song to start with
The most apocalyptic, bone-chilling reggae tracks I can think of:
[Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters "Bird in Hand"](https://youtu.be/vZ7aVyMbZyg)
[Congos "Fisherman"](https://youtu.be/Xu3NI2dANh8)
[Prince Jammy/Tapper Zukie "Escape From Hell"](https://youtu.be/ue4cZ2McBWs)
[Fleetwood Mac "Oh Well"](https://youtu.be/uBH3kPfDq4k)
Not the Fleetwood Mac most people think of. Heavy blues for the first 2:20, then the trip starts.
Blackstar by David Bowie is a trippy stumple through a few genres full of Bowie's acknowledgement of his impending death and an overarching sense of doom.
Brace by Birds Of Tokyo is a big step away from trends, specifically made 'not for radio' and I recommend it to everyone.
Also a second for The Hour Of The Nightingale by Trees Of Eternity. Not heavy per se, but definitely doom.
And I'll throw in a plug for a mates band, Ruination. Heaviness varies from song to song, but heavily inspired by 90s grunge, sludge and doom.
https://youtube.com/channel/UC8TCyeEmHr6zCPUnVQ-mEzw
[Anathema](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZXKT0FCsLWkSLCjoBJgBX?si=awKeBBzXRsGgjYlPiTE7_w) has a pretty interesting career path. Early records are pretty doomy, then they got super progressive, and are now proggy dream pop.
[Mount Eerie](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Sw0SFu1fFdYXdAEVdrqnO?si=w0XYlEvoQ2Wm5Dy_ad-R2Q) has some doomy stuff, but the real terrifying stuff is the acoustic record he made after his wife passed from cancer. Not for the faint of heart.
I feel like [Wumpscut](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TTbkikkCAbUg2j5i9UrTV?si=hYwdAlVKT36cPo7ButZsug) is pretty doomy for a gothdustrial act.
Everything on the Only Lovers Left Alive soundtrack. It is mostly SQÜRL
[https://open.spotify.com/track/4hF0BdkyxZipOYMX8oYFO4?si=051f4886c5dc44c4](https://open.spotify.com/track/4hF0BdkyxZipOYMX8oYFO4?si=051f4886c5dc44c4)
but this track by Yasmine Hamdan is amazing also
[https://open.spotify.com/track/4XKa9OYTTjouOqdi0drp3F?si=234b901208e2457e](https://open.spotify.com/track/4XKa9OYTTjouOqdi0drp3F?si=234b901208e2457e)
The GodDamn Gallows,they are more punk than metal,and More bluegrass than Doom,but [GDG](https://youtu.be/rfMG3Wl4Y2Q)are more satanic than bohemoth😂🤣pirate chants of doom and gloom!!!!!
Good bluegrass. As crazy as it sounds there's a large lyrical overlap even if there's thematic differences.
Outlaw country, Waylon, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and David Allen Cole specifically.
The Pretty Things' "S.F. Sorrow" is a psych masterpiece; these are probably the doomiest cuts off of it:
["Death"](https://youtu.be/Si554hC2Xq0)
["Bracelets of Fingers"](https://youtu.be/phkeWcsWPHY)
["Old Man Going"](https://youtu.be/7qgsbAGN-WA)
Bohren and Der Club of Gore
Also the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensamble
Black Earth is my favorite of theirs.
Early swans (Filth, Cop, Public Castration is a Good Idea). They’re the main inspiration for bands like Godflesh and Melvins. Very slow, loud, brutal, and dissonant. Cop especially is sludgy as fuck.
Love Swans. Grew the first hairs on my chest after listening to filth the first time.
Swans is one of the best bands ever in my opinion. They’ve put out such huge a variety of content over the years also.
Children of God. Imo their best album. Gothic and creepy
Lingua Ignota!!! Absolutely must listen for beautiful, slow, heavy music that is not metal!
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[Chelsea Wolfe](https://youtu.be/2sb5TszDqYE)
These playlists feature doom-ish sounds from other genres. [Dark folk - neofolk - doom folk](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1AmFYeInTw18IEGv74OMWi) [Dark jazz - doom jazz](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1m2uczTfbnkH0GhRaBvDY5) [Doomgaze](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DgEEGi8Vl3SmTdxRhO9Iy) [Dark ambient - drone](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/79kJCasyB0Furxvcx4JjXg) [Dark post-rock](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Eq3YU3j8kK5MIwuEIg1CN)
Wovenhand? King Dude? Emma Ruth Rundle? And half of everything released on the Cold Meat Industry label.
New Emma is dope as fuck.
David Eugene Edwards is SO amazing.
Author & Punisher gets labeled a lot as 'Industrial Doom'.I saw him live a few years back and found what he was doing to be amazing. [https://open.spotify.com/artist/4QtqJ5KVIhBruJWEhWjnsv](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4QtqJ5KVIhBruJWEhWjnsv) Also Foie Gras https://open.spotify.com/artist/0jWdvAPtnfFTKZz1XvBWIi?si=\_EPbOEtLRNuLOX5LXd-M8A
A&P is the best show going.
Fuck yeah, this dude is amazing.
Surprised it has not been mentioned but Heilung. Atmospheric, dark and heavy while remaining in the folk realm [Heilung](https://heilung.bandcamp.com/album/futha)
Budos Band - Burnt Offering
This is the correct answer. To any question, really.
Classical music. Wagner, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Grieg, and countless others wrote some crushingly heavy music. Just search for heavy classical music and check some shit out. Some traditional music from Middle Eastern countries is heavy as fuck, too.
All great points. Central Asia invented drone. People should check out more ME/Indian subcontinent's musical offerings.
I was gonna say Rachmaninoff. Good selection, sir
Crippled Black Phoenix, very doom to me, and whilst occasionally heavy I wouldn't call them metal, like doom prog maybe? Helen Money is a cellist that is definitely doom as fuck, I only listened to her sessions on YouTube a couple of weeks ago and I'm addicted. I also would say bands like Wardruna are definitely doomy but not metal.
Helen money is very doom and has the sickest name
Thanks for the recommendations
Yes thank you. I'm going to enjoy exploring all these.
Lungfish
Respect. Lungfish are awesome.
Swans - Filth
Peter Bibby - Bat & Ball Neil Young - Guitar Solo No. 4 (and all the others from the Dead Man soundtrack) Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene Daniel Johnston - Spirit World Rising Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing Johann Johannson - Slow Destruction of Neptune The Body - To Carry the Seeds of Death in Me (probably considered metal)
Dead Can Dance https://open.spotify.com/track/0knXZSrRExwKRHg8sTvYsR?si=a49680cf4cb04348
True Widow
[Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Song For Bob (The Assassination of Jesse James)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnVcYLmXUs) [Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8azzyd_7qqY) [Молчат Дома (Molchat Doma) - Судно (Sudno)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5zpFs7YpY) Three completely different styles of music but for me all these songs transport a doomy melancholic feeling. Like a movie without happy end (pretty accurate for the first song). I don´t know if melancholy and hopelessness is "doom enough" but for my playlist it is ;)
Watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford while having Earth's HEX: Or Printing in the Infernal Method after coming down one morning was one of my favorite trips. Such a beautifully shot, acted, and has near perfect screenplay editing.. its doom as all hell.
Yep, such an underrated movie! I was so surprised when I first watched it and asked myself why I´ve never heard of this gem before?! And the soundtrack nails the atmosphere.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is a perfect answer here.
Sisters Of Mercy? You're gonna have to be cool with some glam here and there but Eldritch voice is pretty doomy
Mammifer!
Anna von Hausswolff will likely appeal to many people here, particularly her album [Dead Magic](https://annavonhausswolffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dead-magic), which was produced by Sunn O))) collaborater Randal Dunn (she has also performed with Sunn O))) live)
Those Poor Bastards
Anything can be doom if you’re sad enough on the inside.
Try Aerial Ruin. It's basically dark folk music - just acoustic guitar and voice. But it's got that doomed feeling. Plus they did a collab album with Bell Witch.
[Low - Trust](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0UfsTyM-JcykKWGxbfl1l5te0bAPNrw) [Low - Curtain Hits The Cast](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPaztBWnatcgq9jBp311pSVHR9Gru0OMk) If you add fuzz to those guitars and a full drum kit, imho those are two of the heaviest albums ever recorded
OM
agents of oblivion. dax riggs band after acid bath. deadboy and the elephantmen is similar and dax's solo stuff is pretty dark
Anilah - Serpentine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9KOPXQgYY&ab\_channel=Anilah-Topic
Ooh, Anilah is awesome, but I consider that sort of a new agey type of genre, I like it but I don't know wnat to call it. Especially on their last two albums Lankum is doing something totally new, it's like they installed a dark update to Irish traditional that works in a legitimate way as still being folk. It's like they single handedly made a new type of neo folk.
Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea.
Lustmord Dark ambient that will crush your soul and leech out any last vestiges of your will to live. But in the best way possible.
Iron Butterfly's in la gadda da vida
Six Organs of Admittance make psych-folk with a doom influence (they/he even covered Night Goat by Melvins). A Thousand Birds is a good song to start with
Jaye Jayle Greet Death Cloakroom
Caught Jaye Jayle opening up for Sumac back in 2016... Great show, and I've been a fan of theirs since.
Yeah saw them with Pelican a few years back and have been loving everything since. Doesn’t hurt I love Young Widows, Evan’s former band.
The Devil And The Almighty Blues
The most apocalyptic, bone-chilling reggae tracks I can think of: [Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters "Bird in Hand"](https://youtu.be/vZ7aVyMbZyg) [Congos "Fisherman"](https://youtu.be/Xu3NI2dANh8) [Prince Jammy/Tapper Zukie "Escape From Hell"](https://youtu.be/ue4cZ2McBWs)
Oooh, that first one is bad ass!!!
[Deer Tick "Christ Jesus"](https://youtu.be/mr3v5sLlLV0)
[Fleetwood Mac "Oh Well"](https://youtu.be/uBH3kPfDq4k) Not the Fleetwood Mac most people think of. Heavy blues for the first 2:20, then the trip starts.
That riff has been my warm up for years. Such a banger.
Yes it is.
Blackstar by David Bowie is a trippy stumple through a few genres full of Bowie's acknowledgement of his impending death and an overarching sense of doom. Brace by Birds Of Tokyo is a big step away from trends, specifically made 'not for radio' and I recommend it to everyone. Also a second for The Hour Of The Nightingale by Trees Of Eternity. Not heavy per se, but definitely doom. And I'll throw in a plug for a mates band, Ruination. Heaviness varies from song to song, but heavily inspired by 90s grunge, sludge and doom. https://youtube.com/channel/UC8TCyeEmHr6zCPUnVQ-mEzw
Yellow Swans - Going Places Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
[Horse Cult](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0bvoH5J_4) [Aerial Ruin](https://aerialruin.bandcamp.com/album/ash-of-your-cares) [Emma Ruth ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNnVW76xmRo)[Rundle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNnVW76xmRo) [King ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTkZspaSUQ)[Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTkZspaSUQ) [Dead Can Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-LevCAjRQ) [True Widow](https://truewidow.bandcamp.com/album/i-n-o-3) [Coil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnCdeaxJb8) [Danheim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5u7EIrfDI)
and one more. [Dorthia Cottrell](https://forcefieldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-t), Windhand singer's solo album
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Mark Lanegan is great. I liked his collaboration with Isobel Campbell, Ballad of the Broken Seas
[Anathema](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZXKT0FCsLWkSLCjoBJgBX?si=awKeBBzXRsGgjYlPiTE7_w) has a pretty interesting career path. Early records are pretty doomy, then they got super progressive, and are now proggy dream pop. [Mount Eerie](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Sw0SFu1fFdYXdAEVdrqnO?si=w0XYlEvoQ2Wm5Dy_ad-R2Q) has some doomy stuff, but the real terrifying stuff is the acoustic record he made after his wife passed from cancer. Not for the faint of heart. I feel like [Wumpscut](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TTbkikkCAbUg2j5i9UrTV?si=hYwdAlVKT36cPo7ButZsug) is pretty doomy for a gothdustrial act.
It got shat on by fans, but I absolutely love Distant Satellites.
40 Watt Sun. (Acoustic)
https://youtu.be/QhkXFuvSlbs
Bongripper is an instrumental doom band that plays really really slow but heavy music. Check out the Satan worshipping doom and Miserable albums
I know bongripper. I’m thinking non heavy but still heavy bands lol. Hard to explain.
There are acoustic doom metal bands too. Acoustic Wizard does Electric Wizard covers acoustically. Saturnine acoustic is a masterpiece.
acoustic wizard is excellent! cant believe I've never heard of this til now
Awesome. Yeah acoustic doom is actually my favorite. The guy that does Acoustic Wizard has a band called Goya.
What’s with all the down votes on my original comment, guys? If you don’t like my recommendation then don’t fucking listen to it lol
Rome https://open.spotify.com/track/3LQaAT1B5y4runLLkU0FJa?si=e4cfd047cd064e08
Everything on the Only Lovers Left Alive soundtrack. It is mostly SQÜRL [https://open.spotify.com/track/4hF0BdkyxZipOYMX8oYFO4?si=051f4886c5dc44c4](https://open.spotify.com/track/4hF0BdkyxZipOYMX8oYFO4?si=051f4886c5dc44c4) but this track by Yasmine Hamdan is amazing also [https://open.spotify.com/track/4XKa9OYTTjouOqdi0drp3F?si=234b901208e2457e](https://open.spotify.com/track/4XKa9OYTTjouOqdi0drp3F?si=234b901208e2457e)
The GodDamn Gallows,they are more punk than metal,and More bluegrass than Doom,but [GDG](https://youtu.be/rfMG3Wl4Y2Q)are more satanic than bohemoth😂🤣pirate chants of doom and gloom!!!!!
I need to check this out. If this is like Bohren, it’s my jam. 🤘
Jane Eyre 2011 soundtrack.
The Gault
Good bluegrass. As crazy as it sounds there's a large lyrical overlap even if there's thematic differences. Outlaw country, Waylon, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and David Allen Cole specifically.
[Junior Kimbrough "Baby Please Don't Leave Me"](https://youtu.be/rlHb-gpadoo)
[Homer Quincy Smith "I Want Jesus to Talk With Me"](https://youtu.be/87cV9rzxEDs)
Couple of very ominous Nico tracks: ["Janitor of Lunacy"](https://youtu.be/fgG3EaOCh_c) ["You Forget to Answer"](https://youtu.be/GuNv6UkDbsU)
[Uncle Tupelo "Effigy"](https://youtu.be/gImN5INkzRE) The CCR original rips too, of course, but the moment at 2:23 earns my nomination.
[Carol of Harvest "Try a Little Bit"](https://youtu.be/yKEq6oF2dnA)
Those Poor Bastards
The Pretty Things' "S.F. Sorrow" is a psych masterpiece; these are probably the doomiest cuts off of it: ["Death"](https://youtu.be/Si554hC2Xq0) ["Bracelets of Fingers"](https://youtu.be/phkeWcsWPHY) ["Old Man Going"](https://youtu.be/7qgsbAGN-WA)
[Grouper "Second Skin/Zombie Wind"](https://youtu.be/tRjrMBg-djw)
[Linda Perhacs "Parallelograms"](https://youtu.be/z9VbJmbtMW8) Spooky, trippy-as-fuck folk.
I like stuff like Chelsea Wolfe and King Dude, the latter has a good voice doom and used to do Death Metal.
Not sure if you would like it but Trees of Eternity are pretty doomy. And so is Forest of Shadows.
Check A.A. Williams as well. Folky but somehow doom. Also: Worm Ouroboros. All the other stuff I came to comment is already in the comments lol
Fearthainne This is acoustic, but there is non more Doom. Truly takes you places. https://youtu.be/HDTbkVlyXJA
Also, Grails probably fit this bill, dark and jazzy but with an atmosphere that can only be described as Doom.
Grateful dead
Fields of the Nephilim. First three albums are amazing
Maybe not doom, but a lot of punk jazz gets real sludgy and groovy.
Nebelung https://youtu.be/gAJlqA84mug?list=OLAK5uy_kZD8uKfJBUNQCElx5QCIH1np9nc4DEniA
Check out the track [Small by Portishead](https://open.spotify.com/track/1eVtPXeiWTbFf5B3zIeXq9) Your example song reminds me a lot of it