During the 80s, doom metal was in a fractured state and barely a ‘scene’ at all. Candlemass and Trouble enjoyed some mainstream success, but others – including the likes of Pentagram, Witchfinder ...

The past decade has seen quite a resurgence in doom metal, so much so that listeners outside of metal have likely heard the word “doom” or “doomy” thrown around with reference to heavy music, psych, ...

Here are the 5 best doom metal albums of the 2020s, chosen by Ohio's atmospheric doom quartet Frayle. This third record is an extension of what Frayle have been so exemplary in executing, even ...

Wielding a mix of ‘art rock’ and crushingly heavy doom metal, Pallbearer are pushing for one of the most ambitious metal albums of 2024 with Mind Burns Alive. Over the last decade the Little Rock, ...

Candlemass will be joining The Crypt; Gus G. (and friends); and Conception’s Roy Khan and Tore Østby (among other acts). As the festival’s Facebook page announced yesterday (Feb. 1), “This will be the ...

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn ...

Modern digital avenues for music discovery can make it hard to remember what “underground” used to mean. Before the Internet, underground music was hard to find and often hard to even know about—and ...

This article was originally published in SPIN on October 1, 2009. In 1970, Black Sabbath drained the blues from hard rock, slowing it into a depresso nightmare trudge with Frankenstein feet. Myriad ...

The doom-metal genre tag is one applied liberally across a diverse breadth of heavy metal bands. The one constant in all of them is a shared connection in their DNA to the slower-paced riffs from the ...

You could easily argue that doom and stoner are the two oldest subgenres in metal, given that they trace their roots all the way back to heavy music’s foundational text, Black Sabbath’s debut album.