Death/doom

Death/doom
Stylistic origins	Death metal, doom metal
Cultural origins	Late 1980s, various locations
Typical instruments	Electric guitar - Bass guitar - Drums
Mainstream popularity	Largely underground, but with some popularity in Europe.
Derivative forms	Gothic metal Funeral doom
Regional scenes
United Kingdom, United States, Finland, Netherlands

Death/doom, sometimes writes as death-doom or deathdoom, is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It combines the slow tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of doom metal with the deep growling vocals and double kick drumming of death metal.^[1] The genre emerged in the mid 1980s and gained a certain amount of popularity during the 1990s, but had become less common by the turn of the century.^[1] In turn, death/doom gave rise to the closely related genre of funeral doom as well as to the more melodic and romantic gothic metal.

History

The death/doom genre originated in the mid-1980s when early progenitors like Dream Death began to mix traditional doom metal with the sounds of thrash and the nascent death metal scene.^[2] Early records by such bands as Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema (also known as the Peaceville Three due to the fact all three were on Peaceville Records at the time) combined the sounds of mid-1980s Celtic Frost and Candlemass with the use of female vocals,^[3] keyboards and, in the case of My Dying Bride, violins. The influence of these bands has been acknowledged by the likes of Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, The Gathering, Celestial Season and Saturnus.^[1][4] The tag of death/doom seemed to become less popular towards the end of the decade as many of the scene progenitors abandoned their early sound to embrace a more accessible or palatable direction.^[1] However, the style persists in the form of funeral doom, a highly related genre that emerged in the mid-1990s, particularly in the form of Finnish bands such Thergothon, Unholy and Skepticism.^[5]

List of notable death/doom bands

Band	Country	Formed	Notes
Amorphis	Finland	1990	[3][6]
Anathema	UK	1990	[3][7]
Asphyx	The Netherlands	1987	[8]
Autopsy	USA	1987	[1]
Beyond Dawn	Norway	1990	[9]
Celestial Season	Netherlands	1991	[1]
Corrupted	Japan	1994	[10][11]
Daylight Dies	USA	1996	[12][13]
Demenzia	Bulgaria	2003	[14]
Disembowelment	Australia	1989	[1][3][5]
Draconian	Sweden	1994	[15]
Esoteric	UK	1992	[16]
Evoken	USA	1994	[17]
Forest Stream	Russia	1995	[18]
The Gathering	Netherlands	1989	[3][19]
Incantation	USA	1989	[1]
Katatonia	Sweden	1991	[20][21]
Morgion	USA	1990	[1][3][22]
My Dying Bride	UK	1990	[1][3][23]
My Silent Wake	UK	2005	[24]
Necare	USA	1997	[25]
Novembers Doom	USA	1989	[1][26]
Opera IX	Italy	1988	[27]
Orphaned Land	Israel	1991	[28]
Paradise Lost	UK	1988	[1][3][29]
Paramaecium	Australia	1990	[30]
Rapture	Finland	1997	[31]
Runemagick	Sweden	1990	[32]
Saturnus	Denmark	1991	[1]
Skepticism	Finland	1991	[1][5]
Swallow the Sun	Finland	2000	[33]
Thergothon	Finland	1990	[1][5]
The Third and the Mortal	Norway	1992	[34]
Thorr's Hammer	USA	1994	[35]
Unearthly Trance	USA	2000	[36]
Unholy	Finland	1990	[1][5]
Winter	USA	1988	[1][3][37]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q} Tracey, Ciaran (March 2006). "Doom/Death: United in Grief" , Terrorizer #142, pp.54-55.
2. ^ Bardin, Olivier (May 2006). "Forgotten Doom: Raiders of the Lost Art", Terrorizer #144, p.56
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Purcell, Nathalie J. (2003). Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture. McFarland & Company. pp. 23. ISBN 0786415851. http://books.google.com/books?id=6ZErQs5hCUQC. Retrieved April 2008. 
4. ^ Metal Hammer #173
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} Hinchcliffe, James (April 2006). "Funeral Doom / Dron Doom: Hearse Play", Terrorizer #143, pp.44-45.
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