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Recommend me some dark metal

 
 
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10:01 / 29.01.05
Hello

I first heard Paradise Lost years ago, and recently I've really got into their "Draconian Times" album. I've also being checking out some My DYing Bride and I really like some of that.

What sort of music is this? I've heard MDB described as gothic metal, not sure what PD are. Anyway, I want to know what other stuff is out there that's similar, and to get to grips with the genre(s) involved.

I'm looking for stuff which is obviously dark, but MELODIC, thoughtful, sad and beautiful. No needless thrashing or growling. What would you suggest?

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Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
18:51 / 30.01.05
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics Very dark, but unbelievably gentle in places. Songs like 'Bleed me an ocean' & 'Dead Girl' just make me want to cry like a little girlie. Definitely one of the most under-rated, and amazingly talented bands never to get the credit they deserved. Dax Riggs has the most compelling voice you could hope to hear.
 
 
Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
18:53 / 30.01.05
Sorry, should have said before. There is some 'Thrashing and Growling' in places, but melody in abundance.
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:21 / 30.01.05

My favourite metal band is Therion. They really sing, they rock and they use choirs and orchestras. Wonderful band!
 
 
Jack_Rackem
19:40 / 30.01.05
"Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics Very dark, but unbelievably gentle in places. Songs like 'Bleed me an ocean' & 'Dead Girl' just make me want to cry like a little girlie. Definitely one of the most under-rated, and amazingly talented bands never to get the credit they deserved. Dax Riggs has the most compelling voice you could hope to hear."

Interesting band, though a little too 90's for my tastes
 
 
Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
21:12 / 30.01.05
Huh? What does the 90's have to do with it? It's still a cracking album, and it fits the required description. Maybe i'm just getting old, and not down with you hip young people anymore.
 
 
Jack_Rackem
02:44 / 01.02.05
I'm not saying they're bad, but it does have that kind of grungy sound.
 
 
uncle retrospective
09:43 / 01.02.05
No needless thrashing or growling Eh? Are you mad?

Anyway.

Try the Antidote by Moonspell. It's the album PL should have made instead hitting the synths. (That said One Second is a great album)

Tiamat: deeper kind of slumber. It’s quite a soft but very dark album. Good for chilling out to.

Anathema. I think they sound like a very dull metal Pink Floyd, others love them. I just hate Floyd.

Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses. This album has some of shitest lyrics on the planet but the music is fantastic, swinging between doomy goth and thrash.

Opeath. A doomy band with acoustic breaks and some good riffage .They have a song called the Moor which 3 minutes comes in with the metal version (rip off) of the main battle theme from Dune, meshed into a metal fury. If ever there was a song written to stand on a mountain top and scream “Fire the ATOMICS” this song is it.

Oh, dig out Gothic, Icon and Shades of God by PL, yes there will be thrashing and growling but Draconian Times is the Lost’s black album. They have much better.
 
 
Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
11:00 / 01.02.05
Grungy? Are we listening to the same thing?

Uncle Retro, good call on Paradie Lost's 'Icon'. Dark & miserable all the way.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
23:58 / 01.02.05
Enslaved has an amazing album called Beneath the Lights. it sounds a bit as if my bloody valentine became a norwegian metal band. its very surprising and unique; there are parts that thrash but they EARN the right to thrash; lots of it is sweeping and beautiful or dissonant and beautiful in ways that neurosis can only dream about. and strangely enough, the band wears full on viking gear on stage. stay away from any other single release by the band though, as far as i can tell.

Cathedral has some nice albums, going for a super slow down heavy celtic doom sound, then progressing over several albums towards their release Ethereal Mirror, which is a total epic 70s rockathon. maybe its not goth enough for you, but i must put it on this list. Lee Dorian does wear huge red velvet coats on stage (or at least he used to).

Winter completely growls all the way through. but it is a super slowed down heavy doom sound all the way through. i only bring them up because im not sure about the Paradise Lost albums you are referring too, but their early work was a direct rippoff of Winter's one album.
 
 
azdahak
00:36 / 11.02.05
The place to look to nowadays is Finland. Swallow the Sun sounds like classic doom from the mid 90's. Yes they growl, but the piano and the sheer melodic instrumentation is a joy to listen to. The Eternal is more like Paradise Lost around the "Draconian Times"/"One Second" albums and isnt much growly.
 
 
rizla mission
11:28 / 13.02.05
I normally I couldn't give two shits for fucking "melodic" Doom - I mean, what the hell is all that about? "Yeah, I want to look deep into into the blackened abyss of my soul and drown in crushing noise.. but only if it's got a nice tune..". Bluuergh - fuck that.

However, in this case I would recommend you go straight to Reverend Bizarre's 'Harbingers of Metal' - the hugest, mightiest pile of fists aloft transcendent doom majesty I've ever heard.
 
  
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