Stinkbug wrote:I still have a lot more listening to do, but Asunder is fucking awesome. So is Mournful Congregation. I had already heard Bell Witch, and they are insane. I definitely agree that it is unreal that it is just two people.
Thank you guys so much! Y'all are awesome!
also, no list would be complete without mention of my dying bride. hopefully you're already a rabid fan. at times a little more on the gothic doom side of things with some theatrics, moreso than most of the bands mentioned, but the whole genre in it's current form is indebted to them to a degree. certainly the current or recent bands mentioned here are. if you're not already a fan, "as the flower withers" is a good starting place. if you find yourself looking for more of the gothic funeral doom type of sound, check out mourning beloveth. they're great. i'm super picky about clean singing in doom bands and i don't really like theirs, but they keep it below a tolerable threshold on most albums.
also, i know katatonia/october tide are a bit too rocking to be funeral doom, but you could put them on a mix tape next to any of these bands and it'd be a pretty smooth transition. you might already know them too, but if not definitely check it out. you'll probably end up getting a tattoo of the cover of katatonia's "brave murder day" on your face cause it rules so hard. if you don't know the back story, katatonia, in a tale we all know too well from other bands, used to be so amazing and made the best music you've ever heard, i.e. brave murder day, and then at some point they decided to stop doing that and start making worthless shitty music and putting it out as though they were still this great band. sad story. fortunately for us, a handful of the members realized that their old music ruled too hard to stop doing, so they formed a side project called october tide which has two or three fucking amazing albums that sound
exactly like the good era of katatonia.
anyway, that's some classic shit you should know if you don't already.
i've been on a real death metal kick recently so it takes a bit of gear shifting in my brain to think about funeral doom.
so on that note i'll leave this here.
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