Doom and gloom

[Godflesh]

Let's give this important genre a thread too.

Just kicking this up by saying that this year I've bought at least the Triptykon debut, new Church Of Misery, With The Dead, Swallow The Sun, the Wounded Kings debut and Electric Wizard's Supercoven. Not much to say about these than that they all are crushing albums.

[kadaver]

Triptykon; bucket list band right there. Gotta see 'em live at some point! Missed them at Eindhoven Metal Meeting in 2014 because my dumb ass didn't get into them yet. Eyeing a fest in Belgium coming August. Really nothing quite like their sound (and Monotheist).

[Godflesh]

Saw Celtic Frost 10 years ago and will finally see Triptykon this summer. It'll be a blast!

[Emplate]

Great! I was already waiting for a doom thread :)

Pallbearer's Foundations of Burden was on many "the best of 2014" lists, but I didn't come around listening to it until recently. Don't know why I've put that off so long, it's one hell of an album! I simply love the guitar tones in this one. It certainly pays respect to 70s, but I think they throw their own spice in the mix as well. Sometime's it feels like there's too much retro worshiping going on the scene. Don't get me wrong, I love 70s stuff, but I think the best 70s rock/heavy was done in the 70s. In this light, Pallbearer felt like something fresh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTTt-ikVJSk

[Seasonreaper]

Doom is something I can get behind. I'll be going out soon to see Cult of Luna so don't have time for a full post, but I feel Mourning Beloveth require more attention. Their second album The Sullen Sulcus is a goddamn masterpiece. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...tml5=False

I really, really need to see them perform live one day.

[Godflesh]

I really need to see YOB! When they are more sober than the last time.

[DarcX]

I have a love-hate relationship with doom. I either quite like it, or find it pretty boring. I haven't been able to get into Yob. Maybe I need to see them live. I do however dig IZAH's debut album sistere.


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[Emplate]

I have a love-hate relationship with doom. I either quite like it, or find it pretty boring. :( I haven't been able to get into Yob. Maybe I need to see them live. I do however dig IZAH's debut album sistere.


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I think to some extent that's pretty much the relationship everyone has with every genre :) If someone would claim to love everything one genre has to offer, I would be highly skeptical about either honesty or musical taste of that particular person. Possibly both.

[DarcX]

I have a love-hate relationship with doom. I either quite like it, or find it pretty boring. I haven't been able to get into Yob. Maybe I need to see them live. I do however dig IZAH's debut album sistere.


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I think to some extent that's pretty much the relationship everyone has with every genre If someone would claim to love everything one genre has to offer, I would be highly skeptical about either honesty or musical taste of that particular person. Possibly both.

Well, by that I mean there's nothing in the genre that I just think is ok. It's either just boring or I really like it. Whereas with, say, black metal, there's acts that I wouldn't say bore me, but just think they're average.

[kadaver]

I've only just started really delving into the genre. My shared-favorite album of last year was Valborg's "Romantik". Anyone else dig that album? Synth-driven death/doom. If you're familiar with the band: this does sound a lot different from their previous efforts. They're part of the Zeitgeister music label, which is one of my favorite labels. They release music of different genres, but it remains akin in spirit. Just a handful of talented musicians take care of all of the projects. Klabautamann and Owl are some of my favorites too. Klabautamann is supposed to be recording a new record this year as well.

If you need some more convincing, Tom G. Warrior himself invited them to be a part of his curated Roadburn event, "Only Death Is Real". He also included Romantik in his list of favorite 2015 albums.

 https://templeoftorturous.bandcamp.com/album/romantik


"German dark, primitive metal trio, VALBORG, who feature within their ranks current and former members of Owl, Klabautamann, Woburn House, Gruenewald and more – will unleash their fifth full-length next month via Temple Of Torturous. Titled Romantik the follow-up to 2012’s Nekrodepression, which Last Rites hailed for being consistent with VALBORG’s “tradition of strange, compelling German music,” further applauding their “patient, measured aggression,” features six tracks of morose avant blackened beauty. Ambient synthesizers collide with wistful guitars, all slowly and deliberately hovering above a foundation of pounding rhythms, the band’s harsh, German vocal inflections adding further terror to their profoundly bleak brand of funeral power doom. Romantik was produced, recorded and mixed by Oliver Weiskopf at Stonehenge Studios and mastered by Michael Schwabe at Monoposto Mastering. Following four albums based around experimental, skull-crushing doom, with Romantik, VALBORG delves deeper into the heart-tearing atmospheres of the abyss of which they’ve so boldly explored. Fans of Type O Negative, Vangelis, Killing Joke and Celtic Frost/Triptykon pay heed. Romantik will be released on CD and digitally on May 19th, 2015 and on vinyl June 16th, 2015 via Temple Of Torturous. “The whole thing sounds like the results of Vangelis collaborating with (Triptykon-era) Tom G. Warrior and (Jesu-era) Justin Broadrick on the soundtrack for a story of tragic love directed by John Carpenter. ” – Last Rites"






I get to see them live in a month!