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A genre spawned by Black Sabbath...I think they spawned everything!

Doom is typically tuned down, slow to mid-tempo and generally heavy although some of the newer stuff getting labeled as doom seems to be more 70s style rock like Witchcraft.

This Wikipedia article has a pretty good write up on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_metal

I'm a pretty big fan of the sound and my faves would include:
Black Sabbath
Candlemass
Trouble
Pentagram(!!!)
Memento Mori
Solitude Aeturnus
Saint Vitus
Buzzard (pseudo-doom but was on Hellhound Records)
Witchcraft
Sahg is a good up and coming doom band: http://www.myspace.com/sahg

Speaking of Hellhound, they were sort of pioneers for marketing the stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellhound_Records

I know Mitch is a doom fan. Who else?

I've always liked the more drone-y, ambient stuff, like Sunn O))), Boris, and especially (if they can even be counted among the genre) Godspeed You Black Emperor! (who spawned one of my favorite bands ever, A Silver Mt. Zion).

I've tried listening to Sun O)))). I just can't feel it.

Have you ever listened to and of the Floor/Cavity/Dove stuff? Dove is the better of all of those projects IMHO.

About all I've listened to for any length of time from your list besides Black Sabbath is Trouble. I saw them a few times around '85-'86. A great live band that I've recently put into rotation again. An interesting spin for a "doom" type band to be on the positive side of the good/evil religious dynamic. Due to my opinion of organized religion I would typically stick an ice pick in my ear rather than listen to Stryper type lyrics but Trouble pulls it off well enough to make it enjoyable.

If you dig Trouble, check out Place of Skulls.
http://www.myspace.com/placeofskullsdoom

Features the former guitarist of Pentagram. Good stuffs.

Sean, check out sHEAVY. Their album "The Electric Sleep" could be a lost Black Sabbath album.

I've got Republic and it blows me away every time I listen to it.

i used to see cavity and floor in florida all the time. some of those guys are in a band called torche now who aren't too bad

Carson wrote:i used to see cavity and floor in florida all the time. some of those guys are in a band called torche now who aren't too bad

Carson! Good to see you here, man. I've got the Dove stuff which is really good too.