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When The Kite String Pops
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Sludge band from Louisiana whose albums feature artwork painted by serial killers.
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Acid Bath
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The Call Of The Wretched Sea
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Nautical themed doom band from Germany.
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Ahab
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Serenades
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English doom metal band from Liverpool featuring brothers Danny & Vincent Cavanagh.
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Anathema
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Paranoid
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Legendary UK band widely considered the progenitors of heavy metal. Featuring vocalist Ozzy Osbourne and guitarist Tony Iommi.
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Black Sabbath
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Absolutego
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Experimental Japanese band named after a Melvins song.
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Boris
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Sore
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North Carolina sludge act featuring Kirk Fisher and Dixie Dave Collins.
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Buzzoven
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Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
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Swedish epic doom metal band, regarded as one of the "big four of doom metal".
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Candlemass
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The Ethereal Mirror
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UK doom band formed by Lee Dorian following his departure from grindcore legends Napalm Death.
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Cathedral
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Master Of Brutality
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Japanese doom metal band whose songs are mainly about mass murderers and serial killers.
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Church Of Misery
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King Of The Dead
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US doom metal band named after a mountain pass in LOTR and known for their sword and sorcery themed lyrics.
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Cirith Ungol
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Escape From The Prison Planet
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Maryland rockers, featuring vocalist Neil Fallon, who were originally regarded as alternative metal but who evolved into a more bluesy hard rock sound.
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Clutch
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Wise Blood
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North Carolina hardcore punk/crossover band who changed direction to a bluesier, heavier sound with the arrival of guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan.
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Corrosion Of Conformity
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Odd Fellows Rest
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New Orleans sludge stalwarts featuring Kirk Windstein. The band was famously mocked on Beavis and Butthead for being as "heavy" as their music.
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Crowbar
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Bury Me In Smoke
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Sludge metal supergroup featuring members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod and Crowbar.
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Down
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Come My Fanatics
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English doom metal band from Dorset, featuring husband and wife Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham.
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Electric Wizard
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Dopesick
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Influential New Orleans sludge outfit featuring vocalist Mike IX Williams & guitarist Jimmy Bower.
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Eyehategod
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Hate Songs In E Minor
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Humorously named sludge band from Nottingham, UK. Guitarist/vocalist Alex Newport was also in Nailbomb with Sepultura's Max Cavalera.
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Fudge Tunnel
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Eatin' Dust
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California stoner rock band with an obsession for vintage muscle cars, led by guitarist Scott Hill.
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Fu Manchu
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Mandylion
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Dutch band once featuring vocalist Anneke Van Giersbergen. They started as an atmospheric doom metal band but have gradually evolved into other genres.
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Flower Of Disease
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LA stoner/doom band who emerged after the disbanding of the Obsessed and featuring vocalist Peter Stahl, formerly of hardcore band Scream.
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Goatsnake
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Death Is This Communion
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Californian stoner/doom/sludge band formed by Matt Pike after the dissolution of his prior band Sleep.
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High On Fire
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Blues From The Red Planet
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Influential stoner rock band from Palm Desert, California. Members included Brant Bjork and Josh Homme.
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Kyuss
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Blood And Thunder
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Sludgy progressive metal band from Atlanta ,Georgia. One of the most successful metal bands of the new millennium.
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Mastodon
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Boris
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Pioneering US band featuring Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover, widely regarded as a big influence on both grunge and sludge metal.
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Melvins
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
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New Jersey band often credited, along with Kyuss, with popularizing the stoner rock sound. Their other big hit is the single "Space Lord".
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Monster Magnet
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Turn Loose The Swans
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Veteran English doom-death and gothic metal band from Bradford. One of the so called "Peaceville Three".
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My Dying Bride
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Through Silver In Blood
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Influential, avant-garde metal band from Oakland, California. Considered to be a big influence on the post metal and sludge metal genres.
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Neurosis
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Brother Blue Steel
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Pioneering Maryland doom/stoner metal band fronted by Scott "Wino" Weinrich.
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The Obsessed
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Beginners Guide To Suicide
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London stoner metal band. Their name was inspired by bands such as Deep Purple & Black Sabbath with colors in their names, and their love of LOTR.
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Orange Goblin
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Draconian Times
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Influential English doom-death and gothic metal band from Halifax featuring vocalist Nick Holmes. One of the "Peaceville Three".
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Paradise Lost
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Pioneering heavy metal band from Virginia, USA, featuring Bobby Liebling. One of the "big four of doom metal".
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Pentagram
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Songs For The Deaf
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Hugely successful stoner rock band formed by Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri after the demise of Kyuss.
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Queens Of The Stone Age
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Born Too Late
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LA doom metal band considered one of the "big four". The band Scott "Wino" Weinrich joined after leaving The Obsessed.
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Saint Vitus
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Jerusalem
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California stoner metal band who split up in 1996 after their label refused to release their album Dopesmoker, comprising of one hour long song.
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Sleep
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Downfall
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Texan epic doom metal band featuring vocalist Robert Lowe.
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Solitude Aeturnus
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Heathen
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Experimental & politically minded Louisiana sludge collective who have collaborated with such artists as The Body & Emma Ruth Rundle on their records.
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Thou
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Psalm 9
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Veteran Chicago bandconsidered to be pioneers of doom & one of the "big four". Once promoted as "White Metal" due to their spiritual lyrics & their contrast to evil sounding bands like Venom at the time.
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Trouble
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October Rust
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New York gothic metal band fronted by Peter Steele. They disbanded after his tragic passing in 2010.
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Type O Negative
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...And Justice For Y'all
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North Carolina stoner/sludge band that started as a Buzzoven side project. Their style has been referred to as "caveman metal" by frontman Dixie Dave Collins.
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Weedeater
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Burning A Sinner
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Cult NWOBHM band from Stourbridge, UK. The band is heavily influenced by Black Sabbath & prone to featuring scantily clad women on its album covers.
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Witchfinder General
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