During the 80s, doom metal was in a fractured state and barely a ‘scene’ at all. Candlemass and Trouble enjoyed some mainstream success, but others – including the likes of Pentagram, Witchfinder ...

The past decade has seen quite a resurgence in doom metal, so much so that listeners outside of metal have likely heard the word “doom” or “doomy” thrown around with reference to heavy music, psych, ...

Here are the 10 best doom metal drummers, ranked by Crypt Sermon's Enrique Sagarnaga. When you play slow, everything is magnified and how you utilize all of that space requires tons of precision and ...

What would you name as the top 5 essential doom records for someone who was looking to get into the genre? How about your 5 favorite underground or lesser-known albums? As far as I'm concerned, you ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. It’s a chilly Saturday night in December, and I’m surrounded by concertgoers from every Denver subculture.

You could easily argue that doom and stoner are the two oldest subgenres in metal, given that they trace their roots all the way back to heavy music’s foundational text, Black Sabbath’s debut album.

Modern digital avenues for music discovery can make it hard to remember what “underground” used to mean. Before the Internet, underground music was hard to find and often hard to even know about—and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — At first glance getting into a yoga pose to the sound of heavy or doom metal music might sound counterintuitive: How calming can that be? But for at least one Mystical Hug Yoga ...

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn ...

Since metal isn't generally sung in large groups, id Software had to gather their own ensemble via an open call for metal singers in Austin, Texas. Together, the group makes up the background noise of ...