Doom Metal

Doom Metal is a subgenre of heavy metal defined by its slow, crushing tempos, downtuned guitars, and eerie, melancholic atmospheres. Tracing its roots to Black Sabbath’s pioneering riffs, it evolved in the late ’80s and early ’90s to embrace dark lyrical themes of despair, loss, and existential dread. Bands like Candlemass, Saint Vitus, and Electric Wizard drove the genre forward, spawning sludge, stoner, and funeral doom offshoots. Ideal for listeners craving a cathartic sonic voyage, doom metal offers monumental riffs and immersive, brooding soundscapes.