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Okay, well, if you want to get in on doom
Metal from the ground
Floor,
Candlemass is your best bet as a band. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and
Nightfall are
Two amazing albums by them. Listen to the song
Gallows End or Under the Oak and you'll be in love.
Type O Negative is also great, listen to the album World Coming
Down and the songs Everyone I Love is Dead or White Slavery. And of course with any other genre, doom
HAS much heavier bands, like
Esoteric,
Cough or
Ahab (those bands would fall under
Funeral doom
Metal, which tends to be much slower, longer and darker, almost like modern
Drone). If you want
Funeral doom, listen to Thergothon's album
Stream from the Heavens or Mournful Congregation's Monad of Creation. Then there's the doom/stoner stuff like
Cathedral or Electric Wizard. Come My Fanatics is a great album. I know a lot more but I think that's enough for now ;) I hope you like slow music! Because that's what doom is.
Also, hey, don't totally knock country/folk stuff, as I've just come across a black
Metal band recently that makes use of country style in some of their songs and play banjo/fiddle etc. They're called Panopticon. Their album Kentucky is really good.
Well, I tend to really dislike deathcore/metalcore and most grindcore/goregrind, so all of those bands you mentioned I don't like, including Lamb of God. I also
Hate Cannibal Corpse--they must be one of the most generic death
Metal bands ever. A band like
Carcass or
Autopsy or
Dismember is miles better than them (and not all of their albums sound the same :D) I like early
Mayhem as well as their 2008 album, but their middle stuff with
Maniac isn't up my alley. I love three of Carcass'
Six albums (Symphony of
Sickness, Necroticism and Heartwork) but I'm not in love with their other stuff. Not really into
Testament, but I
Saw them live and they were pretty good.
If you want some good old school thrash that you've never heard of before, try
Holy Terror and
Coroner (ESPECIALLY
Coroner). Listen to the song Read My Scars and you'll know you're hearing one of the best thrash bands
Ever Hope that helps!
Let me know what you think of this stuff, even if you only get around to listening to one thing.
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