Death Doom

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Death Doom

Development phase: late 1980s
Place of origin: United States
Stylistic precursors
Doom Metal · Death Metal
Pioneers
Dream Death · Goatlord · Paradise Lost · Asphyx
Instruments typical of the genre
Electric guitar · electric bass · drums
Stylistic successor
Gothic Metal · Funeral Doom
Important local scenes
West Yorkshire · Netherlands

Death Doom , sometimes also called Doom Death or Slow Death , is a music subgenre that emerged in the second half of the 1980s through the mutual influence of the genres Death Metal and Doom Metal . The initiators of the genre were mainly rooted in the death metal environment.

Musical classification

At the end of the 1980s, the first bands played reduced-tempo Death Metal and blended Death and Doom Metal into an independent style of music.

"The result was a sound that is characterized by the slowness so typical of Doom in connection with minimalist, but far worse riffs than before, as well as hateful Death Metal grunts [sic!]."

- Vampster.com

Later performers added further elements to the style, which should sometimes be formative for subsequent musical styles. In 1990 Winter increased the distortion of the guitars and reduced the chords on Into Darkness . Over time, various international bands combined "slow, dark, melancholic passages with rapid beatings and deep growls" to form a uniform style of music that became known as Death Doom. The guttural singing is considered to be a particularly striking common feature of the genre .

history

Pioneers

As the first band from published Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania originating Dream Death with Journey into Mystery 1987, a mixture of Doom and Death Metal. Despite the exceptional status of the band and the release, Dream Death was not successful. The band was able to get good reviews, but neither in the death metal nor in the doom metal scene, which is why it stayed with the release of one album. However, the album is now considered a classic in the areas of Doom and Death Metal.

A year later, Goatlord from Las Vegas released their second demo tape Sodomize the Goat, a work that gained enormous popularity in tape trading circles and is considered the second release of the genre. The lyrics of the band were close to Death Metal and were based on Gore elements . The band originally received rather bad reviews and also did not find its own audience at the time. The demo's descending status as a Death Doom classic only developed over the years.

Another early release in the genre is Lost Paradise , the 1990 debut album of the British Paradise Lost , and the early work of the band Asphyx .

Development and Influence

Paradise Lost 1991 Live.

In the early 1990s, other bands of the genre emerged internationally and separate death-doom music scenes in the British and Dutch underground . From this development of Death Doom, Gothic Metal and Funeral Doom emerged until the mid-1990s . The high phase of Death Doom has been considered over since the early 1990s. After the bands, which are oriented towards the British scene, only deepened themselves further into Gothic Metal in the first half of the 1990s and subsequently reduced the Death Doom elements, there was no further popular high phase of the genre for the time being. Nevertheless, the style spread internationally. The Dutch Asphyx oriented themselves more towards the pioneers in 1989 with the EP Mutilating Process and in 1991 with the debut album The Rack and played a raw Death Doom. Bands such as the Swiss group Excruciation , the Finnish band Obscurant , the Faroese band Hamferð , the Scottish group Of Spire & Throne , the German formation Torchure or the Japanese band Corrupted have appeared worldwide over the years since the genre was first ignited. Since then, new and old bands have been active in the genre and sometimes provide new impulses.

Gothic metal

Between published 1990 and 1993 Paradise Lost in 1991 with Gothic , My Dying Bride in the same year Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium and following with As The Flower Withers and Turn Loose the Swans and Anathema 1993 Serenades those albums, which it as the Peaceville Three known should make and which, through the influence of Dark Wave and Gothic Rock, laid the foundation for the later burgeoning Gothic Metal .

"The success of these bands is probably also responsible for the fact that the majority of metal fans who are not familiar with the Doom scene primarily associate the term Doom with the typical Peaceville Death Doom."

- Vampsters

Soon some new bands similar to the Peaceville Three established themselves, as well as performers who changed their style in a corresponding direction such as Cathedral , Katatonia or Amorphis . The development was also reflected in the Dutch death scene. The band's debut album The Gathering Always… in 1992 was compared with the early Paradise Lost, while the 1993 debut of Celestial Season Forever Scarlet Passion with My Dying Bride and the 1995 debut of Orphanage Oblivion with both Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride was compared.

Funeral doom

In addition to Gothic Metal, the Americans shaped the Funeral Doom in winter 1990 with Into Darkness , the Finns Thergothon 1991 with their demo band Fhtagn nagh Yog-Sothoth , which is popular in tape trading circles, and the Australians DiSEMBOWELMENT with their EP Dusk . In particular, the reduction of the rhythm and the symphonic and orchestral elements brought in by Thergothon and DiSEMBOWELMENT favored this further development from Death Doom to Funeral Doom. Winter, Thergothon and DiSEMBOWELMENT shaped subsequent funeral doom bands such as Skepticism and Esoteric with their style , who often acted with keyboard sound carpets and echoing vocals mixed in the background.

Melodic Death Doom

Some Fennoscandinavian bands like Saturnus , Swallow the Sun , Kuolemanlaakso , Lucidity , Vuolla and Daylight Dies successfully build on the mix of Melodic Death Metal and Death Doom set by Amorphis in 1994 with Tales from the Thousand Lakes . In this popular form of play, some performers were able to reach national charts.

Further mixed and game forms

Stephen O'Malley performing with Thorr's Hammer in 2010.

In addition to Winter, a number of interpreters emerged in the United States with groups such as November's Doom , Thorr's Hammer , Evoken and Ceremonium until the mid-1990s, who, in contrast to the Dutch, British and Scandinavian representatives of Death Doom, shaped an independent school.

The American representatives particularly focused on slow riffing, deep growling and strong distortion. The American duo Dark Castle incorporated elements of psychedelic rock into Death Doom. The Italian band Assumption acted similarly . Whereas Primitive Man combined Death Doom with elements of Sludge and Grindcore . In the 2000s, artists like Abske Fides , Whelm and Oceanwake mixed death-doom with elements of post-metal .

content

While early Death Doom bands were still oriented towards the themes of Death Metal and wrote texts from the areas of Gore and Fantasy , Winter established a critical focus on content with their socially critical approach and the description of a nuclear winter . In the meantime, the texts range from ecological , socially critical and transcendental topics to personal topics to the Gore and fantasy topics that existed from the start.

Representative

Individual evidence

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