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traditional doom metal

Last updated: Tue Nov 04 2025 06:01:50 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Traditional doom metal is a heavy, slow-tempo style rooted in 1970s hard rock that emphasizes thick, distorted guitar riffs and an atmosphere of despair or darkness. Born from Black Sabbath's blueprint, it features plodding rhythms, melancholic melodies, and lyrics exploring themes of death, the occult, and existential dread. The sound prioritizes crushing heaviness and emotional weight over speed, creating an oppressive yet cathartic listening experience.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
8		1972-09-25	Black Sabbath	Vol 4	heavy metal
88		1982	Witchfinder General	Death Penalty	doom metal	nwobhm # 78
17		1984	Pentagram	Relentless	doom metal	doom metal # 25
90		1984	Saint Vitus	Saint Vitus	doom metal	doom metal # 24
96		1984-03-01	Trouble	Psalm 9	doom metal traditional doom metal
26		1984-09	Paul Chain Violet Theatre	Detaching From Satan
62		1985-08	Saint Vitus	Hallow's Victim	doom metal
13		1985-10	Saint Vitus	The Walking Dead	doom metal
75		1986	Saint Vitus	Born Too Late	doom metal	doom metal # 73
99		1987-11-09	Candlemass	Nightfall	doom metal	doom metal # 63
59		1988	Saint Vitus	Mournful Cries	doom metal
12		1989	Saint Vitus	V	doom metal
61		1989-09-25	Candlemass	Tales of Creation	doom metal
3		1991	The Obsessed	Lunar Womb	doom metal
30		1992	Penance	The Road Less Travelled	doom metal metal traditional doom metal
56		1992	Saint Vitus	C.O.D.	doom metal
15		1994	Valhall	Moonstoned	doom metal traditional doom metal
41		1994	Pentagram	Be Forewarned	doom metal heavy metal
84		1995	Paul Chain	Alkahest	doom metal traditional doom metal
50		1995-05-09	Saint Vitus	Die Healing	doom metal
42		1996	Scald	Will of the Gods is Great Power	doom metal
38		1997-03	Warning	Blessed By The Sabbath	traditional doom metal
98		1998	Candlemass	Epicus Doomicus Metallicus	doom metal	doom metal # 72
69		1998-02	Pagan Altar	Judgement of the Dead	doom metal heavy metal	nwobhm # 16
27		1999	The Obsessed	Incarnate	doom metal
91		1999	Reverend Bizarre	Slice of Doom	traditional doom metal
6		1999-07-19	Pentagram	Review Your Choices	doom metal
35		2001-01-22	Mirror of Deception	Mirrorsoil	doom metal traditional doom metal
76		2002-03-28	Reverend Bizarre	In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend	doom metal
71		2003	Orodruin	Epicurean Mass	doom metal traditional doom metal
37		2003-02	Mirror of Deception	Conversion	traditional doom metal
73		2003-03	Reverend Bizarre	You Shall Suffer!	doom metal finnish traditional doom metal
85		2003-11-24	Reverend Bizarre	Harbinger of Metal	doom metal
67		2004	Blood Farmers	Permanent Brain Damage	traditional doom metal
68		2004-10-18	Mirror of Deception	Foregone	doom metal traditional doom metal
66		2004-10	Pagan Altar	Lords of Hypocrisy	doom metal heavy metal
40		2004-12-17	Minotauri	Minotauri	doom metal traditional doom metal
34		2005-05-02	Candlemass	Candlemass	doom metal
89		2005-06-15	Reverend Bizarre	II: Crush the Insects	doom metal
22		2006	The River	Drawing Down The Sun	doom metal
83		2006-04-25	Reverend Bizarre	Thulsa Doom	doom metal traditional doom metal
70		2006-06-27	The Gates of Slumber	Suffer No Guilt	doom metal traditional doom metal
52		2006-10-06	Mirror of Deception	Shards	doom metal traditional doom metal
57		2006-12	Warning	Watching From A Distance	doom metal	doom metal # 49
18		2007-03-09	Voodooshock	Marie's Sister's Garden	traditional doom metal
2		2007-04-23	Serpentcult	Trident Nor Fire	doom metal
74		2007-06-22	Candlemass	King of the Grey Islands	doom metal
94		2007-08-08	Reverend Bizarre	III: So Long Suckers	doom metal traditional doom metal
16		2007-10-31	Wall of Sleep	...and hell followed with him	doom metal stoner metal traditional doom metal
39		2007-10-31	Witchfinder General	Buried Amongst The Ruins	doom metal traditional doom metal
21		2007-12-04	Hour of 13	Hour of 13	doom metal
44		2007-12-07	The Wandering Midget	I Am The Gate	traditional doom metal
46		2008	Dantesco	Pagano	doom metal pagan traditional doom metal	pagan # 35
5		2008	Blind Witch	Fly To The Witch Mountain	doom metal traditional doom metal
95		2008	Om	Live At Jerusalem	doom metal traditional doom metal
20		2008	The Lamp of Thoth	Portents, Omens, & Dooms
48		2008-03-27	Lord Vicar	The Demon Of Freedom	doom metal traditional doom metal
47		2008-05	Revelation	Release	doom metal traditional doom metal
19		2008-06	Reino Ermitaño	Rituales Interiores	doom metal traditional doom metal
11		2008-08-11	Blood Ceremony	Blood Ceremony	doom metal
63		2008-08-30	Witchfinder General	Resurrected	doom metal heavy metal nwobhm traditional doom metal	nwobhm # 10
65		2008-10-10	The Wandering Midget	The Serpent Coven	doom metal traditional doom metal
82		2008-12-17	Lord Vicar	Fear no Pain	doom metal traditional doom metal
72		2009-03-13	Doomraiser	Erasing the Remembrance	doom metal traditional doom metal
60		2009-04-25	Iron Man	I Have Returned	doom metal metal traditional doom metal
92		2009-05-18	Fenriz' Red Planet	Engangsgrill	traditional doom metal
7		2009-06-09	Valhall	Red Planet	doom metal stoner doom stoner metal traditional doom metal
28		2009-10-01	Old Season	Archaic Creation	traditional doom metal
10		2009-11-17	Revelation	For The Sake Of No One	doom metal traditional doom metal
53		2009-11	Rituals of the Oak	Hour Of Judgement	traditional doom metal
81		2010	Witchsorrow	Witchsorrow	doom metal traditional doom metal
36		2010-02-26	Wheel	Wheel	traditional doom metal
78		2010-02-26	Hour of 13	The Ritualist	doom metal traditional doom metal
9		2010-04-22	Briton Rites	For Mircalla	doom metal
4		2010-09-21	Warchetype	Ancestral Cult of Divinity	doom metal traditional doom metal
80		2010-09	Rose Kemp	Golden Shroud	doom metal drone psychedelic rock sludge stoner metal traditional doom metal
77		2010-12-08	Procession	Destroyers of the Faith	doom metal traditional doom metal
33		2011	Evangelist	In Partibus Infidelium	doom metal traditional doom metal
23		2011-03-15	Condenados	A Painful Journey Into Nihil	doom metal traditional doom metal
24		2011-04-04	The Gates of Slumber	The Wretch	doom metal
51		2012	Witchsorrow	God Curse Us	traditional doom metal
31		2012-02-01	Anguish	Through the Archdemon's Head	doom metal traditional doom metal
97		2012-02-21	Pallbearer	Sorrow and Extinction	doom metal	doom metal # 50
32		2012-02-25	Iron Mtn	Iron Mtn	doom metal traditional doom metal
43		2012-04-26	Reino Ermitaño	Veneración Del Fuego	doom metal stoner metal traditional doom metal
29		2012-04-27	Saint Vitus	Lillie: F-65	doom metal
55		2012-06-12	Witch Mountain	Cauldron of the Wild	doom metal
54		2012-08-24	Bedemon	Symphony of Shadows	doom metal traditional doom metal
64		2012-10-16	Witch Mountain	Witch Mountain	stoner metal traditional doom metal
58		2012-11-30	The Wandering Midget	From The Meadows Of Opium Dreams	doom metal traditional doom metal
1		2013-05-13	The Fërtility Cült	Heavenly Bodies	stoner metal stoner rock traditional doom metal
93		2013-05-27	Blood Ceremony	The Eldritch Dark
49		2013-06-04	Demon Lung	The Hundredth Name	doom metal traditional doom metal
100		2015	Black Sabbath	Master of Reality (2014 Remaster)	heavy metal	heavy metal # 67
79		2015-02-24	Bedemon	Child of Darkness	doom metal hard rock heavy metal traditional doom metal
86		2015-11-20	Magic Circle	Journey Blind	traditional doom metal
87		2016-06-16	Lord Vicar	Gates Of Flesh	doom metal traditional doom metal
25		2018-02-23	Apostle Of Solitude	From Gold To Ash	doom metal heavy metal metal traditional doom metal
45		2024-03-29	Coffin Storm	Arcana Rising	heavy metal traditional doom metal
14		2024-04-12	Friends of Hell	God Damned You To Hell	doom metal traditional doom metal

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