Genre

Doom Metal

Doom Metal on LoudQuietLoud: more than 200 artists, including Ghost, Ghost and Anathema. It runs alongside occult rock, traditional doom metal and epic doom metal.

Black Sabbath

heavy metal · hard rock · classic rock

Ghost

heavy metal · psychedelic rock · doom metal

Cover of Skeletá by Ghost

Ghost

heavy metal · psychedelic rock · doom metal

Opeth

progressive metal · progressive death metal · death metal

Danzig

heavy metal · hard rock · metal

Melvins

sludge · grunge · stoner rock

Anathema

doom metal · progressive rock · progressive metal

Katatonia

doom metal · progressive metal · depressive rock

Desire

electronic · synthpop · doom metal

Boris

drone · stoner rock · experimental

Album art: Chelsea Wolfe, The Dark

Chelsea Wolfe

experimental · folk · singer-songwriter

Amorphis

progressive metal · melodic death metal · death metal

Isis

post-metal · sludge · post-rock

Salem

witch house · electronic · dubstep

Album art: Sleep, Hempispheres

Sleep

doom metal · stoner metal · stoner rock

Agalloch

doom metal · folk metal · black metal

The Gathering

gothic metal · progressive metal · female fronted metal

Acid Bath

sludge · doom metal · sludge metal

Crowbar

sludge · sludge metal · doom metal

The Sword

stoner metal · doom metal · stoner rock

Candlemass

doom metal · traditional doom metal · heavy metal

Celtic Frost

black metal · thrash metal · doom metal

Neurosis

sludge · post-metal · doom metal

Pelican

post-metal · post-rock · instrumental

Earth

drone · doom metal · drone doom

Eternal

rnb · doom metal · soul

Cult of Luna

post-metal · sludge · doom metal

Winter

doom metal · death metal · death doom metal

Winter

doom metal · death metal · death doom metal

Winter

doom metal · death metal · death doom metal

Jesu

post-rock · drone · experimental

Pentagram

doom metal · heavy metal · traditional doom metal

Pentagram

doom metal · heavy metal · traditional doom metal

High on Fire

stoner metal · doom metal · sludge

Eyehategod

sludge · doom metal · sludge metal

Witch

stoner rock · doom metal · stoner metal

Pig Destroyer

grindcore · death metal · grind

Halo

sludge · drone · noise

Om

doom metal · stoner rock · psychedelic

Godflesh

industrial metal · industrial · experimental

Planning for Burial

shoegaze · drone · post-rock

Torche

sludge · stoner rock · stoner metal

Trouble

doom metal · rap · hip-hop

Trouble

doom metal · rap · hip-hop

Crematory

gothic metal · death metal · doom metal

Cathedral

doom metal · stoner metal · stoner rock

Apathy

hip-hop · underground hip-hop · doom metal

Weedeater

sludge · stoner metal · doom metal

Acid King

doom metal · stoner metal · stoner rock

King Woman

shoegaze · doom metal · sludge

Thou

sludge · doom metal · drone

Pylon

post-punk · new wave · 80s

Autopsy

death metal · old school death metal · brutal death metal

Windhand

doom metal · stoner metal · stoner doom

Amenra

sludge · post-metal · post-hardcore

Green Carnation

progressive metal · progressive rock · doom metal

Heaven & Hell

heavy metal · doom metal · hard rock

Bongzilla

sludge · stoner metal · doom metal

Pallbearer

doom metal · traditional doom metal · metal

Before the Dawn

melodic death metal · gothic metal · finnish

Septicflesh

death metal · symphonic death metal · atmospheric death metal

Saint Vitus

doom metal · traditional doom metal · stoner rock

The Body

sludge · doom metal · experimental

YOB

doom metal · sludge · stoner metal

Monolord

doom metal · stoner metal · sludge

Ghost Brigade

progressive metal · melodic death metal · doom metal

Nadja

drone · ambient · drone doom

Clouds

doom metal · techno · atmospheric doom metal

Clouds

doom metal · techno · atmospheric doom metal

Incantation

death metal · old school death metal · brutal death metal

Incantation

death metal · old school death metal · brutal death metal

Asphyx

death metal · old school death metal · doom metal

Bongripper

sludge · doom metal · drone

Lucifer

doom metal · occult rock · hard rock

Doomriders

hardcore · stoner rock · sludge

Faetooth

doom metal · sludge · post-metal

Darkseed

gothic metal · doom metal · german

Forgotten Tomb

depressive black metal · black metal · doom metal

Daylight Dies

doom metal · melodic death metal · death doom metal

Conan

doom metal · sludge · stoner metal

Blood Ceremony

doom metal · psychedelic rock · stoner rock

Callisto

post-metal · sludge · post-rock

Reverend Bizarre

doom metal · traditional doom metal · finnish

Shape of Despair

funeral doom metal · doom metal · funeral doom

Worm

death metal · death doom metal · black metal

The Obsessed

doom metal · traditional doom metal · stoner rock

Macbeth

gothic metal · female fronted metal · doom metal

Trees

folk rock · folk · psychedelic folk

Mouth of the Architect

post-metal · sludge · post-rock

God

industrial · experimental · avant-garde

God

industrial · experimental · avant-garde

EverEve

gothic metal · doom metal · german

Khemmis

doom metal · sludge · heavy metal

Cough

sludge · doom metal · sludge metal

Ocean

sludge · rock · doom metal

Esoteric

funeral doom metal · doom metal · funeral doom

Press

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Pylon (opens in new tab)

Members of Turnstile, Deftones, Paramore, and Pinegrove push Bea Kristi toward slightly grungier, angstier territory on her fourth album.

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Album Review: Sleep – Hempispheres (opens in new tab)
There’s not many occasions of a single work becoming such a monolith that it retroactively lifts an obscure band into mainstream recognition.
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Hempispheres (opens in new tab)
The stoner-doom institution returns, minus founding guitarist Matt Pike, for a monotonous album of timid riffs and bad weed puns.
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PitchforkAug 24, 2026
The Dark (opens in new tab)
The singer-songwriter returns for a prestige goth reinvention, singing dramatic anthems of self-preservation that feel grander and bolder than anything she’s ever attempted.
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PitchforkJul 19, 2026
Damnation (opens in new tab)
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible.
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Beats Per MinuteJul 15, 2026
Album Review: Show Me The Body – Alone Together (opens in new tab)
Show Me the Body’s last two albums, particularly 2022’s Trouble the Water (as well as the Corpus mixtapes from 2017 and 2024), felt like they were recorded in a dry basement filled with smoke and…
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New NoiseJul 10, 2026
Album Review: Show Me The Body – Alone Together (opens in new tab)
Show Me The Body have returned with their most heartfelt and existentially profound album to date, Alone Together, via Loma Vista Recordings.
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New NoiseJun 12, 2026
Album Review: Khemmis – Self-Titled (opens in new tab)
One of the aspects of the doom and heavy metal revival movement that puzzles me is how deeply offended and upset fans and critics were that most of the bands didn’t just want to write the same doom…
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Labels

Labels in this genre

Season of Mist

Home to Pentagram, Weedeater & Green Carnation

Relapse Records

Home to Neurosis, Pentagram & High on Fire

Nuclear Blast

Home to Winter, Pentagram & Crematory

Enigma

Home to Celtic Frost, Trouble & Trouble

Important Records

Home to Earth, Om & Ocean

20 Buck Spin

Home to Pallbearer, YOB & Khemmis

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