I love all of those records. My most recent, DOOM-obsession, is Windhand. Dorthia Cottrell’s vox, and vibe - is hypnotic - and addictive. Richmond, Va. is flush, with talent.

@Adam-gk2mg

3 ай бұрын

You checked out her solo record? Death Doom Country? Really solid, stripped down bleak stuff with that same hypnotic vibe.

@sleepbetraysme

3 ай бұрын

@@Adam-gk2mg yes! I ran across a lot of DC solo-stuff, here on YT.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Love Windhand. They’re gonna be on my southern sludge list. Although they’re probably closer to doom? Who knows…

@derkmajirk2308

3 ай бұрын

Love Windhand!

Aaaw yeah!! 🔥🔥🔥nice list!! We will do our best to represent classic doom metal in the future and hopefully end up on your shelf 🖤

Cool vid man some great bands, I'll recommend Deadsmoke, Black Tomb, & Druid Lord, & Catacombs 🤘🥃

Oh man THANK YOU for putting Solitude Aeturnus in a big five (honestly I feel like the doom big four was made well after the fact anyways, as I started listening to this stuff in the late 80s early 90s and never heard that until the age of the internet). But they are, in my opinion, the best doom band in the genre, and for the reason you observe: they just have all that and something more. You get everything with them, plus there is just more variety in their sound or something. Their sound obviously has roots in Trouble (even their lyrical content is more on the Christian side at times like Trouble) but they take things to this whole other level. A gun to my head, my two favorite doom albums are Beyond the Crimson Horizon by Solitude Aeturnus and Forest Equilibrium by Cathedral. But Into the Depths of Sorrow is also an amazing album (and arguably you don't get Beyond the Crimson Horizon without it). I was just listening to it again after watching your ranking video last night. What an album Another thing a like about including bands like Solitude Aeturnus on the list is people now have a very reductive view of the genre, but back when it was forming it felt like there was a broader sense of the possibilities. A band like Solitude Aeturnus really captures that for me

Excellent choices. I'm a big fan of the Shrinebuilder self-titled album. Doom isn't a genre I jump into that often aside from Sabbath themselves so will check out more of these.

Good list! Criminally underrated or overlooked for me are Cathedral and the mighty Goatsnake (the other doom project with Burning Witch's Greg Anderson).

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Goatsnake has some great albums, love Cathedral’s music. Vocals not so much but definitely BIG RIFF APPROVED ✅

Just for suggesting Burning Witch for the kids 🙌 but good list: Top 10 in no order for me with funeral doom included: Thergothon -Stream From The Heavens Asunder - A Clarion Call Skepticism -Stormcrow Fleet My Dying Bride-Turn Loose The Swans Aldebaran-Buried Beneath Aeons Paradise Lost -The Plague Within Flower Travellin Band-Satori Candlemass -Epicus Mournful Congregation -The June Frost Evoken -Atra Mors ect

Killer list! I just listened to Horizonless and Clearing the Path back to back the other night after some rough family news, coincidentally. Loss' Despond hits super hard too like you mentioned. I don't know if I consider Magic Circle purely doom but their album Journey Blind is a ripper front to back with big time BIG RIFF ENERGY, def check it out if you haven't already.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

LOVE Journey Blind, absolutely Big Riff Certified ✅

Hey man i listened to all your 5 albums, really good stuff especially Onward, Inward - the song. You are legit, your angry voice sounds like James Hetfield and your calm/religious voice/take is nice too and a cool mix. Did you think about using your angry voice more and making the songs even more metal and aggro, you have huge potential, im a fan.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

🤘🏻

What you describe Pallbearer as doing, for me that's what Reverend Bizarre did circa 2002. I'd add Cathedral's Forest Of Equilibrium, perhaps the first doom metal album made by doom metal obsessives, albeit with highly unorthodox vox. Great list though!

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Cathedral rules but I do struggle to get into the vocals

@g-man4744

3 ай бұрын

Agreed on the Reverend Bizarre effect in the early 2000s, I still listen to them, great albums! Lee Dorian's vocal are a bit of an acquired taste but to me he always sounded like a more funky Tom G. Warrior, which I think fits the music just fine.

It may be heresy but I’m not much of a doom fan, a little goes a long way for me, but that aside, all of your top ten videos are informative and entertaining. Thanks for the content

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Cheers! Doom has the highest BIG RIFF ENERGY per capita, in my book

Type O Negative W.C.D will always be my Number 1 ! Hail Lord Petrus ! 🖤💚🤟

Top 15 (not in order) Confessor - Unraveled Acid King - Busse Woods Cathedral - Endtyme Jex Thoth - selftitled Earth -Pentastar My Dying Bride - Turn loose the swans Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Candlemass - Ancient Dreams Thergothon - Stream from the heavens Disembowelment - Transcendence into the peripheral Saint Vitus - V Winter - Into Darkness Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today Pentagram - Day of Reckoning Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

Love the Top 10s! Wondering what genre you would consider the Melvins and would like more of your thoughts on the differences between Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Melvins invented sludge and probably grunge too… but are impossible to categorize. Gonna talk about them on my sludge list

That Burning Witch is gnarly. Great pick. Can recommend Wormphlegm for noxious funeral doom lolz.

Great list !! I only would add two british bands Pagan Altar and Witchfinder General.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Great bands. Need to spend more time with Pagan Altar

Great top 10, Nate! 👍 Personally I always debate with myself, whether Trouble 'Psalm 9' or Candlemass 'Nightfall' for me is the best doom album ever made; most of the time though, I admittedly lean towards 'Nightfall'; I simply adore Messiah Marcolin's operatic voice with that enormous vibrato.. 🤗 A special mention to Confessor's 'Condemned' album from 1991; one of the most unique doom metal releases ever. The insane drumming and the high pitched vocals make it sound like a mix between Trouble and Watchtower! 👌 Speaking of funeral doom, german band Ahab had a debut album called 'The Call of the Wretched Sea' back in 2006; that thing is just about the heaviest thing ever made.. the atmosphere on that concept album is downright suffocating! 😱😱

@cbn6635

3 ай бұрын

@@uuuutopoia A fine comeback album, but not quite as groundbreaking as 'Condemned'.. 🤗 The drumming of Steve Shelton seems a bit more 'straight' on 'Unraveled'.. 🤔

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Confessor rules. Totally unique! BIG RIFF ENERGY APPROVED ✅

Cool list. I'd add Judgement of the Dead by Pagan Altar

In no particular order: Witchfinder General - Death Penalty Trouble - Trouble Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid The Obsessed - The Church Within Place Of Skulls - With vision Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales Spirit Caravan - Jug Fulla Sun Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

@Rororororo_ro

3 ай бұрын

Black pyramid ❤

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

BIG RIFF APPROVED ✅

Good list, my favorite doom band is Evoken and my favorite album from them is their first one Embrace The Emptiness

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Love Evoken. Got to play with them in 2017 and it ruled. I had a broken foot and their guitarist had a drunk put a pool cue in his eye the night before so we were slamming ibuprofen like champs

@ThrashTIllDeath555

3 ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate I've never seen them but hope to someday. I've seen live videos and they sound amazing live. Also that sucks I hate when idiots at shows ruin shit for people.

I am surprised Bell Witch's "Mirror Reaper" didn't make here. The first time I heard it, I was totally blown away. That was my first-ish foray into funeral doom and it was a doozy. Love the rest of the list!

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Love them guys and what they do, but at this point in my life I need maximum BIG RIFF PER MINUTE ratio ⏰

@macnorton

3 ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate I totally respect that. Either way, great list man. I love this series and wish you the best.

Nothing compares to the mighty Khanate

Great list Nate! I wouldn't though like to say, that seems a lack of english bands and albums, especially when you are considering Cathedral: "The Ethereal Mirror" and Solstice: "New Dark Age", both classics. Your boy Mike from YOB has aswell talked about and praised these particular bands and albums. But again, you have made a top-10, not a top-100, so you can only talk about so much.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Both great bands

Trouble- Trouble 1990 album is my favorite album ever made. Place Of Skulls- With Vision Earthen Grave - Earthen Grave Both of these are great also. Check out Earthen Grave's cover version of Pentaram "Relentless "

OK time for the Old Pollock to weigh in. Only bands I know on here are Pentagram, Saint Vitus, and Trouble. Funny the guy who introduced me to all of them knows both Wino and Liebling. That old Pentagram sure sounds like Sabbath, which is fine by me. I have Hallows Victim and have heard The Church Within. Don’t know if it’s truly doom but I have the Trouble from the 90’s: Trouble and Manic Frustration (both fantastic albums). Next mission is to listen to the rest of your list. Here’s to some cheery listening!

The first Penance album. The first Cathedral album. Electric Wizard "Dopethrene." Yes the stoner aspect is still fitting in this list. The first Intenal Void album. Disembowlment album is absolutely essential.

I remember hearing Quantum Mystic by YOB for the first time. Mind blowing. The artwork on Horizonless by Loss is one of my favorite album covers.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Same! I think the first YOB song I heard was Burning The Altar… 🤯🧘🏻‍♂️

I would’ve put electric wizard dopethrone but good list love warning great for wallowing in your own sorrow haha

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Great record but the mass invasion of mustache denim 70s wannabe posers in the 2010s ruined all that shit for me

Was Witchfinder General close to make the list?

@stevehuvane135

3 ай бұрын

was wondering same, although influential, maybe not doomy and/or serious enough

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Great first album, but to be honest they were in no danger of making the list…

Psalm 9 Through the Darkest Hour Judgment of the Dead Carnival Bizarre Alkahest Die Healing High on Infinity Harbinger of Metal Watching from a Distance New Dark Age Sorrow and Extinction Probably my top list Solitude Aeturnus is the most underrated metal band in America ever. Also, I think Die Healing is the true blueprint for what traditional doom metal is now. Rev Biz reinvigorated it and they borrow heavily from that albums tone.

Listening to that yob album for the first time liking it. Kinds reminds me of neurosis in a way. I don't know if you would categorize neurosis as doom but they have a slow heavy tribal feel. My go to is through silver in blood!

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

I almost put Neurosis on here but wasn’t sure they counted? Through Silver and Times of Grace are my favorites, changed my life at a young age. Love everything through Eye of Every Storm. Like it all.

This episode didn't show up in my podcast feed for some reason. I use Apple podcast.

PUT IT ON THE SHELF! Love ya dude

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Danny boy ❤️🤘🏻

Loss, Horizonless is an amazing album. You just remindede that I haven't played that in much too long.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Amazing stuff… still listening years later. Can’t say that about a lot of funeral room

I would def. add: Solstice - New Dark Age Mar de Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express Mirror of Deception - Mirrorsoil Winter - Into Darkness Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Paradise Lost - Gothic Count Raven - Destruction of the Void Mourning Beloveth - Dust

Feel like some essentials are missing. No Cathedral, Paradise Lost, Disembowelment, Sleep…

I’m sure you may have seen it, but J Dawg did read your question out loud on a video this past weekend ( a paid skarooni I believe 😂). Would be interesting to see that come together, he seems down. This video was a nice reminder to spend more time with Pentagram!

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Yep we’re setting it up. Everybody put on your pink panties and get ready for a double roast of epic proportions

Idk what I'd take off your list but I gotta put Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy on there. As far as modern classics go the first Magic Circle album deserves a nod.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

I actually prefer journey blind to the first MC record believe it or not! Both great records

Ah, hell. I was expecting Khanate. On Halloween I would form a skull within the pine needles covering my driveway, put a sign by my curb held by a branch ripped from a tree. The sign would be jammed onto the stick with "kandy" written on it with that realy good drippy fake blood. I'd loop 3 or 4 Khanate songs playing out my window. LOL moms with toddlers would go past or cross the street.

You all need to check out "Sheavy" from Newfoundland Canada. They're the best version of Sabbath after Sabbath. Amazing stuff, I'd love to see Nate Review this band.

@s.d.c5513

3 ай бұрын

@@uuuutopoia Great albums, my personal favorite is "The Electric Sleep." Savannah (flights of ecstacy) topped that album in first place for me. One of my favorite songs. 👍

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

I’ll give em a listen. Couldn’t ever get past the band name.

@s.d.c5513

3 ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate Hey Nate, you'll only be doing yourself a favor my friend. If you enjoy Ozzy era Sabbath like I do, Sheavy will implode your cranium. 🤘💀👍

"Put it on the shelf" is gonna be stuck in my hhead now.

Honorable mention, Melvins "Lysol"

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Melvins really don’t fit into any of these genre tags, but I’m gonna discuss them on my SLUDGE list 💉💊

@jetblackstonecold

3 ай бұрын

Melvins: not metal, not doom, are posers & most important to note they shit on metal in every interview they do, yet steal from it always.

@lukelaplante2690

3 ай бұрын

@@jetblackstonecold how does one steal from metal all of the time and not be it?

@lukelaplante2690

3 ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate genres are like genders

@jetblackstonecold

3 ай бұрын

@@lukelaplante2690 because they state they are not metal, duh!

Marrow is one of the best heavy songs ever written. Enormously heavy. Enormously heartfelt. I well up as soon as I hear that first arpeggio.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

So powerful 🔥 🧘🏻‍♂️🔥

I would suggest Mourning beloveth for the list, but, they may be a little to much death/ doom

What I will say is that I just saw Candlemass and they are pretty heavy live.

Warning album is as you describe it

I'd like to know any scandinavian black metal band influenced by the Almighty Trouble.

@BornTooNate

Ай бұрын

A LOT of them. But this is the most obvious lifted riff kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKiMq6ywad3dmNY.htmlsi=-3goM-K1dHwDLc3_

@javierrodriguezdehombre8234

Ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate thanks for your answer, it would be the start of some interest in black metal :)

My favorites? I'd have Doom bands, not albums. I'm a Sabbath worshipper, but I don't list them ad doom specifically. Pentagram Loss Solitude aeternus Bell Witch Mournful Congregation I was a little late getting into doom, as well as stoner, gothic metal and such. I know I need to get more acquainted with Trouble and Saint Vitus. Haven't liked Candlemassew vocal delivery.

holy cuts! AI real guy

Dang…cooking with napalm now….

I wouldn't say anything's missing, cuz it's your list, and you know what doom works for you. Clearly Electric Wizard doesn't, since you blame all the worst of the genre on them, but then there's Windhand who I would consider EW acolytes. While Dopethrone is one of my favorites, I can respect why you're not into it. I too have trouble with Dorrian's vocals in Cathedral. I think his approach on the first With the Dead album from 2015 works better, more along the lines of Broadrick in Godflesh. I saw them at Roadburn '16, and it was if he wanted revenge against Electric Wizard for ditching his label, so he put two ex-EW members in the lineup and kicked the living s**t out of Time to Die with extra hate and filth. As much as I like YOB, I love Ufomammut. The Italian band released albums with a similar timeline starting in 2000, with just a bit more space rock and drone in the mix. They could just as easily be in a sludge list too. Some of my picks, not always strictly pure classic doom: Ufomammut - Idolum (2008) & Eve (2010) Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World (2017) & Dead Roots Stirring (2011) The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (1991) & The Church Within (1994) Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000) & Come My Fanatics (1996) Magic Circle - Journey Blind (2015) & Magic Circle (2013) Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust (2011) Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (2011) Trouble - Trouble (1990) Saint Vitus - Die Healing (1995) Khemmis - Hunted (2016) Messa - Close (2022) Solitude Aeturnus - Through The Darkest Hour (1994) Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels (2014)

@Fastnbulbous1969

3 ай бұрын

Also lots of good doom, sludge and adjacent stuff to look forward to soon! High On Fire - Cometh the Storm (MNRK) Apr 19 Glassing - From the Other Side of the Mirror (Pelagic) Apr 26 Inter Arma - New Heaven (Relapse) Apr 26 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Nell' Ora Blu (Rise Above) May 10 Pallbearer - Minds Burn Alive (Nuclear Blast) May 17 Ufomammut - Hidden (Neurot) May 17 Vitskär Süden - Vessel (Ripple) May 17 High Desert Queen - Palm Reader (Magnetic Eye) May 31 Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent) Jun 14 REZN - Burden (REZN) Jun 14

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World coming down I think you're right about it being most doomy, but disagree that it's their only good album all the way through. October Rust is a masterpiece.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

I would agree with that… there’s a bit of a mid album lull with cinnamon girl. Maybe I’ve just heard it too many times. I listened to that album EVERY DAY (no exaggeration) from the ages of 16-19

@bk83082

3 ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate I usually skip it, but I think it's a good cover.

Yob rules I’d say Atma is my fav of their catalog…brilliant musicianship and I love the psychedelic textures they use in their songwriting…possibly more death leaning doom but Temple of Void …local bros from the motor city, their discography is crazy good Of Terror and the Supernatural is just a perfect album and it’s was recorded at a studio in Detroit called Mt. Doom so there ya go ToV is a riff monster and dude on the kit is an absolute beast

@sleepbetraysme

3 ай бұрын

Love TOV. Every record, has its own vibe. Love their sound. Lords of Death, is my favourite. But they’re all really good. 🤘

@sleepbetraysme

3 ай бұрын

Ps: the cymbal work on Wretched Banquet, is what got me hooked. Jason Pearce, is incredible, on the kit.

@Chef_Deth

3 ай бұрын

Hell yea man killer band an absolute must see live too caught them recently in Detroit it was crushing

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Temple of Void rules. Great guys. Played with em a couple times and they always come out and support when we came through Detroit. BIG RIFF ENERGY approved ✅

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) , DRACONIAN- The Burning Halo (2006) for me in Top -5 of all times...but not even in your Top 10...???

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

It’s crazy, it’s almost as if we are two different people 🗿🤓 I do dig both of those records though

What do you think of the GREAT bands that hardly ever get much love.... NunSlaughter, Deceased, Acid Witch, Cianide.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Nunslaughter is cool Deceased is great, legendary band + riffs Acid Witch rules, great guys as well Cianide I’ve mentioned on the channel before when some asked about “caveman riff death metal albums.” Cianide is the best at that in my book. Who determined that these are the big 4 of the underground? That seems pretty arbitrary

Nice list. Really love Pentagram, Vitus, Candlemass, and Trouble which i statted to listen only last year. As for my favorite albums, i very often gravitate towards Cathedral - Carnival Bizarre or Garden of Unearthly Delights. Cathedral, anyway.

@BornTooNate

3 ай бұрын

Cathedral got the Big Riff Energy approved riffs for sure ✅ Vocals… 😵‍💫

@grumofardo4285

3 ай бұрын

@@BornTooNate Well, I usually like good singers but I'm so used to Lee Dorian's vocals now. I get bored by operatic vocals much faster actually, it's like they're overdoing it... Some dirtiness in that department is always welcome. I guess Lee Dorian fits? I actually miss these guys a lot.