The best Doom Metal albums you must hear before you die (version 1.2)

Že nekaj časa nazaj sem naredil to listo. Odločil sem se, da bom navodila pustil tako, kot so bila- v angleščini. Objavil sem nadgrajeno listo ( dodal sem nekaj novih bandov in albumov in popravil eno napako). Lahko si jo skopirate, če si jo želite.

Please note that not all of the albums on the list are 100% true doom metal ( some of them are even not doom metal album, but have some elements of it and a fan of doom metal might like it). Please remind me, if I have forgotten some of the classics albums and you can always suggest me classic album. Also remind me, if there are any typing mistakes and I will correct them. I hope you will find this list helpful.  I am not the hugest fan of Stoner Doom, Stoner Metal and Gothic Metal, thus I haven’t listed so many albums there.

Some albums are tagged with the star (*). This sign means that the album is an absolute classics and it is convenient for those, who wants to get into this genre, but they don’t know where to startJ.

Proto Doom Metal/ Proto Stoner Metal and Retro Doom Metal:

Bedemon: Child of Darkness
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath*
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality*
Black Sabbath: Paranoid*
Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath*
Black Sabbath: Sabotage*
Black Sabbath: Vol. 4*
Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum*
Blue Cheer: Outsideinside
Budgie: In for a Kill
Budgie: Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
Buffalo: Volcanic Rock
Cirith Ungol: King of the Dead
Graveyard: Graveyard
Iommi: Fused
Iron Claw: Different Game
Jacula: In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum
Jex Thoth: Jex Thoth
Noctum: The Seance
Orchid: Capricorn
Pagan Altar: Mystical& Magical
Pagan Altar: The Lords of Hypocrisy
Pagan Altar: Volume 1*
Pentagram: Day of Reckoning*
Pentagram: Pentagram ( Relentless)*
Pentagram: Review Your Choices
Sir Lord Baltimore: Kingdom Come
Supernaut: Supernaut
Wicked Lady : Psychotic Overkill
Wicked Lady: The Axeman
Witchcraft: Firewood
Witchcraft: Witchcraft*
Witchfinder General: Death Penalty*
Witchfinder General: Friends of Hell*

Traditional Doom Metal

Apostle of Solitude: Last Sunrise
Blood Farmers: Blood Farmers
Briton Rise: For Mircalla
Count Raven: Destruction of the Void*
Count Raven: High on Infinity
Count Raven: Mammons War
Count Raven: Messiah of Confusion
Count Raven: Storm Warning
David Benson: Purpose of the Cross
Death SS: In Death of Steve Sylvester( Horror Doom Metal)- I don’t know where should I put this album
Hour of 13: Hour of 13
Iron Man: The Passage
Leif Edling: Sounds of Torment, Songs of Joy
Lord Vicar: Fear no Pain
Lord Vicar: Sign of Osiris
Paul Chain: Violet Art of Improvisation
Place of Skulls: As a Dog Returns
Reverend Bizarre: Chrush the Insects
Reverend Bizarre: In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend*
Reverend Bizarre: So Long Suckers
Saint Vitus: Born Too Late*
Saint Vitus: Children of Doom
Saint Vitus: Die Healing
Saint Vitus: Hallow’s Victim
Saint Vitus: Mornful Cries
Saint Vitus: Saint Vitus*
The Gates of Slumber: Hymns of Blood and Thunder
The Gates of Slumber: The Wretch
The Obsessed: Lunar Womb*
The Obsessed: The Church Within
The Obsessed: The Obsessed
The Wounded Kings: Embrace of the Narrow House
The Wounded Kings: In the Chapel of the Black Hand
The Wounded Kings: The Shadow over Atlantis
Trouble: Psalm 9*Trouble: The Skull
Trouble: Trouble
Warning: The Strength to Dream

Epic Doom Metal:

All Souls’ Day: Into the Mourning
Candlemass: Ancient Dreams
Candlemass: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus*
Candlemass: Kings of the Grey Islands
Candlemass: Nightfall*
Candlemass: Tales of Creation
Dawn of Winter: In the Valley of Tears
Doomsword: Let Battle Commence
Forsaken: Evermore
Isole: Bliss of Solitude
Isole: Forevermore
Last Chapter: The Living Waters
Mirror of Deception: ForegoneMirror of Deception: Mirrorsoil
Nomad Son: First Light
Nomad Son: The Eternal Return
Scald: Will of the Gods is Great Power
Solitude Aeturnus: Adagio
Solitude Aeturnus: Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Solitude Aeturnus: Into the Depths of Sorrow*
Solstice: Lamentations
Sorcerer: Sorcerer
While Heaven Wept: Of Empires Forlorn
While Heaven Wept: Sorrow of the Angels*

Sludge Metal

16: Drop Out
Acid Bath: Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Acid Bath: When the Kite String Pops
Baroness: Blue Record
Baroness: Red Album
Black Flag: My War (this album is included because of its historical importance)
Bongzilla: Amerijuanaican
Crowbar: Broken Glass
Crowbar: Odd Fellows Rest
Crowbar: Sonic Excess in its Purest Form
Crowbar: Time Heals Nothing*
Dystopia: Human= Garbage (compilation)
Eyehategod: Confederacy of Ruined Lives
Eyehategod: Dopesick
Eyehategod: Take as Needed for Pain*
Graves at Sea: Documents of Grief ( demo)
Grief: Come to the Grief
Grief: Dismal
Iron Monkey: Iron Monkey
Iron Monkey: Our Problem
Jucifer: Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
Kylesa: Kylesa
Melvins: Bullhead*
Melvins: Gluey Porch Treatments*
Melvins: Houdini
Melvins: Lysol
Melvins: Ozma
Neurosis: Enemy of the Sun
Neurosis: Souls at Zero*
Noothgrush: Erode the Persone

Stoner Metal/Stoner Rock

Acrimony: Tumuli Shroomaron
Cathedral: The Carnival Bizzare
Cathedral: The Eternal Mirror
Colour Haze: Coulour Haze
Corrosion of Conformity: In the Arms of God
Down: Nola
Fu Manchu:King of the Road*
Kyuss: And the Circus Leaves Town
Kyuss: Blues for the Read Sun*
Kyuss: Kyuss (Welcome to Sky Valley)
Mastodon: Remission
Melvins: Stoner Witch
Orange Goblin: The Big Black
Orange Goblin: Thieving from the House of God
Orange Goblin: Time Travelling Blues*
Queens of the Stone Age: Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf*
Soundgarden: Louder than Love

Stoner Doom Metal

Acid King: Busse Woods
Black Pyramid: Black PyramidChurch of Misery: Houses of the Unholy
Church of Misery: Master of Brutality
Church of Misery: The Second Coming
Electric Wizard: Come my Fanatics...
Electric Wizard: Dopethrone*
Electric Wizard: Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard: Let us Prey
Electric Wizard: We Live
Goatsnake: Flower of Disease
High on Fire: Death is this Communion
High on Fire: The Art of Self Defence
Om: Conference of the Birds
Om: Variations on a Theme*
Ramesses: Misanthropic Alchemy
Shrinebuilder: Shrinebuilder
Sleep: Jerusalem
Sleep: Sleep Holy Mountain*
Stoned Jesus: First Communion
Yob: Catharsis
Yob: The Illusion of Motion

Death Doom Metal

Amorphis: Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Anathema: Crestfallen EP*
Anathema: Pentecost III EPAnathema: Serenades
Asphyx: Death… The Brutal Way
Asphyx: Last one on Earth
Asphyx: The Rack
Castle: Castle
Cathedral: Forest of Equilibrium*
Celestial Season: Forever Scarlet Passion
Celestial Season: Solar Lovers
Coffins : The other side of Blasphemy
Ghost Brigade: Guided by Fire
Doom: VS: Dead World SpeakGhost Brigade: Isolation Songs
Hour of 11: Lacrima Mortis
Inverloch: Dusk
Katatonia: Brave Murder Day*
Katatonia: Dance of December Souls*
Katatonia: For Funerals to Come
Mar De Grises: Draining the Waterheart
Mar de Grises: The Tatterdemalion Express
Mourning Beloveth: Dust
Mourning Beloveth: The Sullen Sulcus
My Dying Bride: As the Flowers Withers*
My Dying Bride: Turn Loose the Swans
My Silent Wake: Shadow of Sorrow
Novembers Doom: Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
Novembers Doom: Of Scuptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
Novembers Doom: The Knowing
October Tide: Rain without End
Officium Triste: Giving Yourself Away
Officium Triste: Ne Vivam
Officium Triste: Reason
Paradise Lost: Gothic*Paradise Lost: Shades of God
Paramaecium: A time to mourn
Paramaecium: Echoes from the Ground
Paramaecium: Exhumed from the Earth
Paramaecium: Within the Ancient Forest
Rapture: FutileSaturnus: Matyre
Saturnus: Paradise Belongs to You
Sempiternal Deathreign: The Spooky Gloom
Slumber: Fallout
Spina Bifida: Ziyadah
Swallow The Sun: The Mourning Never CameUnholy: From the Shadows
Unholy: Gracefallen
Unholy: Rapture
Unholy: The Second Ring of Power
Visceral Evisceration: Incessant Desire for Palatable Flesh
Winter : Into Darkness*

Gothic Doom Metal

Anathema: Eternity (not a pure Doom Metal album)
Ashes you Leave: Desperate Existence
Ashes you Leave: The Inheritance of Sin and Shame
Ashes you Leave: The Passage Back to Life
Ava Inferi: Burdens
Draconian: Arcane Rain Fell*
Draconian: Where Lovers Mourn
Funeral: In Fields of Pestilent Grief
My Dying Bride: The Angel and the Dark River*
My Dying Bride: The Dreadful Hours
My Dying Bride: The Light at the Edge of the World
Paradise Lost: Draconian Times (not a pure Doom Metal album)
Paradise Lost: Icon (not a pure Doom Metal album) *
The Gathering: Always
The Sins of Thy Beloved: Lake of Sorrow
Theatre of Tragedy: Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy: Velvet Darkness They Fear

Funeral Doom Metal

Ahab: The Call of the Wretched Sea
Colosseum: 3 Parasomnia
Colosseum: 1 Delirium
Colosseum: 2 Numquam
Disembowelment: Transcendence into the Peripheral*
Dolorian: Dolorian
Dolorian: Voidwards
Dolorian: When All the Laughter Has Gone*
Esoteric: Epistemological Despondency
Esoteric: The Pernicious Enigma
Evoken: A Caress of the Void
Evoken: Embrace the Emptiness
Evoken: Quietus
Funeral: Tragedies
Funeral: Tristesse
Lament Christ: In Ventus Est Dollor ( demo)
Mournful Congregation: The June Frost
Mournful Congregation: The Monad of Creation
Nortt: Gudsforladt- Funeral Black Metal
Pantheist : O Solitude*
Pantheist: Amartia
Pantheist: Journey Through Lands Unknown
Shape of Despair: Angels of Distress*
Shape of Despair: Shades of
Skepticism: Alloy
Skepticism: Farmakon
Skepticism: Lead and Aether
Skepticism: Stormcrowfleet*
Solicide: Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Thergothon: Stream from the Heavens*
Until Death Overtakes Me: Symphony I: Deep Dark Red
Wijlen Wij :Wijlen Wij
Worship: Dooom

Drone Doom Metal

Boris: Absolutego
Boris: Amplifer Worship* ( a mixture of Sludge and Drone)
Boris: Flood
Dark Castle: Spirited Migration ( a mixture of Sludge and Drone)
Earth: Extra Capsular Extraction (EP)
Earth: Pentastar: In the Style of Demons
Earth: Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions*
Khanate: Khanate*
Melvins: Joe Preston (EP)
Moss : Sub Templum ( a mixture of Sludge and Drone)
Opium Warlords: Live at Colonia Dignidad
Orthodox: Gran Poder
SunnO))) : ØØ Void*
SunnO))): Flight of the Behemoth
SunnO))): Monoliths & Dimensions
SunnO))): White 2
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine: Rampton
Thou: Tyrant (a mixture of Sludge and Drone)
Year of no Light: Nord (a mixture of Post Metal and Drone)

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Hybrid Genres:

Black Doom Metal:

Bethlehem: Dark Metal*
Bethlehem: Dictius te Necare
Deinonychus: Ark of Thought
Forgotten Tomb: Springtime Depression
Mordor: Dark is the Future
Woods of Ypres: The Deepest Roots and Darkest Blues

Progressive Doom Metal:

Confessor: Condemned
Pantheist: Pantheist
Revelation: Never Comes Silence
Revelation: Salvation’s Answer*
Umbra Nihil: Gnoia
Under the Sun: Man of Sorrow
While Heaven Wept: Vast Oceans Lachrymose

Thrash Doom Metal:

Deathmass: Prolonging the Inevitable (demo)- ask me, if you don’t know where to get it
Dream Death: Journey into Mystery*
Exitus : Statutum Est Hominibus Mori ( demo)- ask me, if you don’t know where to get it
Seventh Angel: Lament for the Weary
Seventh Angel: The Torment

Folk Doom Metal:

Gods Tower: The turns
Mael Mórdha : Gealtacht Mael Mórdha
Orphaned Land: Sahara ( Death Folk Doom)
Silent Stream of Godless Elegy: Relic Dances
Uaral: Lamentos a Poema Muerto ( doomy neofolk)

Avant- Garde Doom Metal:

Aarni: Bathos
Celtic Frost: Monotheist
Estatic Fear: A Sombre Dance
Virgin Black: Requiem - Mezzo Forte

P.S: I didn’t include Post Sludge metal bands. I might include them in the next- upgraded version of the list.