From: d90-two@dront.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer)
Subject: Echoes From The Abyss
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:31:31 GMT

Here is the Doom Metal list again. As you can see there have been some minor
changes, apart from the new/corrected entries. I'm trying to include a very
brief description of what to expect from a band in the list (the # lines),
but I haven't heard all the bands, and I haven't been able to come up with
something for all those I've heard. Help me!


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Echoes From The Abyss - The Doom Metal List                              921115
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This is an attempt to list the Metalworld's treasure of Doom Metal albums. The
list is maintained by Thomas Wolmer <d90-two@nada.kth.se>. It is posted to
alt.rock-n-roll.metal when I feel like it (usually once every month), and more
often emailed to those who want more frequent updates. Email me to subscribe.
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If you know any more Doom Metal albums, if you know some unknown release year,
if you find some error in release years or titles or if you think that some
album here just isn't Doom Metal, then don't hesitate to tell me!       /Thomas
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Anathema/#(DoomDeath. Don't confuse them with another group by the same name)
Anathema/1992/Crestfallen (EP)
Anathema/1993/Serenades (release in January)

Bathory/#(Not generic Doom, but slow, heavy, *** Metal)
Bathory//////Bathory's 4 earlier albums are Death Metal and do not fit here
Bathory/1990/Hammerheart
Bathory/1991/Twilight Of The Gods
Bathory/1992/Jubileum Volume I (compilation, also including old material)

Black Sabbath/#(Black Sabbath hasn't always played the most representative Doom Metal but since they are the icons of the genre, I have included them here)
Black Sabbath/1970/Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath/1970/Paranoid
Black Sabbath/1971/Masters Of Reality
Black Sabbath/1972/Vol 4
Black Sabbath/1973/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath/1975/Sabotage
Black Sabbath/1976/We Sold Our Souls For Rock'n Roll (compilation)
Black Sabbath/1977/Greatest Hits (compilation)
Black Sabbath/1977/Technical Ecstasy
Black Sabbath/1978/Never Say Die
Black Sabbath/1980/Children Of The Grave (unreleased versions of Vol 4 songs + "CothG" live + more?)
Black Sabbath/1980/Heaven And Hell
Black Sabbath/1980/Live At Last (live from '73)
Black Sabbath/1981/Mob Rules
Black Sabbath/1983/Live Evil (live)
Black Sabbath/1983/Born Again
Black Sabbath/1986/Seventh Star
Black Sabbath/1987/The Eternal Idol
Black Sabbath/1989/Blackest Sabbath (compilation 1970-1987)
Black Sabbath/1989/Headless Cross
Black Sabbath/1990/Tyr
Black Sabbath/1990/Feels Good To Me (Maxi)
Black Sabbath/1990?/Box (6 first albums with extra tracks from "Live At Last")
Black Sabbath/1992/Dehumanizer
Black Sabbath/1992/TV Crimes (Maxi)

Candlemass/#(Classic "Epic" Doom Metal)
Candlemass/1986/Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass/1987/Nightfall
Candlemass/1988/At The Gallows End (Maxi)
Candlemass/1988/Samarithan (Maxi)
Candlemass/1988/Ancient Dreams
Candlemass/1990/Tales Of Creation
Candlemass/1990/Live
Candlemass/1992/Chapter VI (much less doomy than the other albums)

Cathedral/#(Often slow, really Doomy Metal with peculiar vocals)
Cathedral/1991/Forest Of Equilibrium
Cathedral/1992/Soul Sacrifice (EP, tracks also on Gods Of Grind compilation)

Cianide/#(DESCRIPTION WANTED!)
Cianide/1992/The Dying Truth

Count Raven/#(Sabbath-oriented ***)
Count Raven/1990/Storm Warning
Count Raven/1992/Destruction Of The Void

Crowbar/#(***)
Crowbar/1992/Obedience Thru Suffering

Dark Passages/1992 (Rise Above compilation including Penance, Revelation, Stillborn, Count Raven, Cathedral, Solitude Aeturnus & Saint Vitus)

Dream Death/#(DESCRIPTION WANTED!)
Dream Death/1987/Dream Death

Gods Of Grind/1992 (Earache compilation including Cathedral's "Soul Sacrifice" EP + Confessor doing two Trouble covers, otherwise Death/Thrash)

Mercy/#(***)
Mercy/????/(one more album)
Mercy/????/Mercy
Mercy/????/Swedish Metal
Mercy/1988/King Doom
Mercy/1992/Witchburner(?)

My Dying Bride/#(NOTE: Really heavy DoomDeath)
My Dying Bride/1992/Symphoniare Infurnus Et Spera Empyrium (EP)
My Dying Bride/1992/As The Flower Withers
My Dying Bride/1993/The Thrash Of Naked Limbs (EP) (release in February)

Nemesis/#(Pre-Candlemass, not as outspoken Doom as 
Nemesis/1982/Day Of Retribution (EP)
Nemesis/1990/Day Of Retribution (re-release w/ extra Candlemass demo tracks)

Paradise Lost/#(Doom/Death with a gothic touch)
Paradise Lost/1990/Lost Paradise
Paradise Lost/1990/In Dub (Maxi)
Paradise Lost/1991/Gothic
Paradise Lost/1992/Shades Of God
Paradise Lost/1992/As I Die (Maxi)

Penance/#(***)
Penance/1992/The Road Less Travelled

Pentagram/#(Doom/rock ***)
Pentagram/1985/Pentagram (EP?)
Pentagram/1987/Day Of Reckoning

Revelation/#(DESCRIPTION WANTED!)
Revelation/1991/Salvations Answer

Saint Vitus/#(Psychedelic Sabbath clones)
Saint Vitus/1984/Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus/1985/Hallow's Victim
Saint Vitus/????/Walking Dead
Saint Vitus/1987?/Thirsty And Miserable (EP)
Saint Vitus/1987/Born Too Late (CD includes the "Thirsty And Miserable" EP)
Saint Vitus/1988/Mournful Cries
Saint Vitus/1989/Live
Saint Vitus/1989/V
Saint Vitus/1991/Heavier Than Thou (compilation of early material)
Saint Vitus/1992/COD

Solitude Aeturnus/#(***)
Solitude Aeturnus/1991/Into The Depths Of Sorrow
Solitude Aeturnus/1992/Beyond The Crimson Horizons

Sorrow/#(DoomDeath)
Sorrow/1991/Forgotten Sunrise (EP)
Sorrow/1992/Hatred And Disgust

Stillborn/#(Cross Sabbath, Megadeth and Danzig and try to imagine...)
Stillborn/1990?/Necro-Spirituals
Stillborn/1991/The Permanent Solution
Stillborn/1992/(new album) (not very doomy?)

The Gathering/#(DESCRIPTION WANTED!)
The Gathering/1992/Always

The Obsessed/#(Doom/rock with Wino of Saint Vitus fame on vocals/guitar)
The Obsessed/1984?/The Obsessed (EP)
The Obsessed/1989/<untitled> ("Posthumously" released recording from 1985-86)
The Obsessed/????/Lunar Womb

Thy Grief Eternal/#(DESCRIPTION WANTED!)
Thy Grief Eternal/(?)

Trouble/#(Classic Doom)
Trouble/1984/Psalm 9 (originally released as Trouble, re-released as Psalm 9)
Trouble/1985/The Skull
Trouble/1987/Run To The Light
Trouble/1990/Trouble
Trouble/1992/Manic Frustration (WARNING! Not Doom at all! (But not bad...))

Vol 4/1992 (Peaceville compilation including Pentagram, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost & The Gathering as well as non-Doom bands)

Winter/#(Sloooowww Doom with growly vocals)
Winter/1990/Into Darkness

Witchfinder General/#(DESCRIPTION WANTED!)
Witchfinder General/1982?/Death Penalty
Witchfinder General/1982/Soviet Invasion (Maxi)
Witchfinder General/1983/Friends Of Hell

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