DRONE METAL: RANKED
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England
drone metal / funeral doom metal / sludge doom metal
the first time i listened to this album, i worked overnight data entry at a huge office/laboratory complex. on my lunch break, very late at night, there wasnt much open for food, so sometimes i would listen to music on headphones and smoke while i walked up the sidewalk and back.
that was the first time i listened to Sub Templum, alone on an empty street in the middle of the night, and at the time the atmosphere was overwhelmingly, crushingly desolate, lonely and bitter, and made a very strong impression on me. i listened to the rest on the long commute home, alone on the highway, and it resonated with me 100%. i could listen to those cymbals splash over waves of droning guitar forever
drone metal / funeral doom metal / sludge doom metal
the first time i listened to this album, i worked overnight data entry at a huge office/laboratory complex. on my lunch break, very late at night, there wasnt much open for food, so sometimes i would listen to music on headphones and smoke while i walked up the sidewalk and back.
that was the first time i listened to Sub Templum, alone on an empty street in the middle of the night, and at the time the atmosphere was overwhelmingly, crushingly desolate, lonely and bitter, and made a very strong impression on me. i listened to the rest on the long commute home, alone on the highway, and it resonated with me 100%. i could listen to those cymbals splash over waves of droning guitar forever
USA (California)
sludge doom metal / drone metal
sludge doom metal / drone metal
Portugal
drone metal / funeral doom metal
droning guitars with slow, somber leads and quiet, reverent choral vocals create an atmosphere of monastic hypersolemnity on Bosque's "Nowhere." while their previous album, Passage, was a mostly incorporeal funeral drone experiment that bordered on ambient in structure and felt a bit aimless, this album feels a bit more focused, solid, and dynamic, as far as that term can be applied to a funeral doom/drone metal album. the drums are more audible and active, the guitars have a bit more body and structure, and the latter half of the third track, "Metamorphosis" (aptly named) turns into death doom style dirge with growled vocals, both very out of character for Bosque, but done well and isnt out of place
the only thing this suffers from is being pretty samey through most of the album. but im an absolute sucker for this sort of extreme quasireligious solemn atmosphere and i never get tired of it, and in any case its a fucking drone metal album so..
drone metal / funeral doom metal
droning guitars with slow, somber leads and quiet, reverent choral vocals create an atmosphere of monastic hypersolemnity on Bosque's "Nowhere." while their previous album, Passage, was a mostly incorporeal funeral drone experiment that bordered on ambient in structure and felt a bit aimless, this album feels a bit more focused, solid, and dynamic, as far as that term can be applied to a funeral doom/drone metal album. the drums are more audible and active, the guitars have a bit more body and structure, and the latter half of the third track, "Metamorphosis" (aptly named) turns into death doom style dirge with growled vocals, both very out of character for Bosque, but done well and isnt out of place
the only thing this suffers from is being pretty samey through most of the album. but im an absolute sucker for this sort of extreme quasireligious solemn atmosphere and i never get tired of it, and in any case its a fucking drone metal album so..
Portugal
funeral doom metal / drone metal
wow, i really dig the hypersolemn, sort of monastic atmosphere going on here, and the subtle, shapeless choral vocals echoing in the background are kind of interesting when they're present
too bad that's about all this album has going for it. goes nowhere and does nothing but create a vague and unfocused but moody and interesting atmosphere
funeral doom metal / drone metal
wow, i really dig the hypersolemn, sort of monastic atmosphere going on here, and the subtle, shapeless choral vocals echoing in the background are kind of interesting when they're present
too bad that's about all this album has going for it. goes nowhere and does nothing but create a vague and unfocused but moody and interesting atmosphere
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