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Cathedral, four long-haired musicians in shirts and a leather waistcoat, photographed against a dark background in the early 1990s 2 chapters

Doom Metal History

Doom, sludge and stoner went down the way everything goes into a tar pit, each layer sinking onto the last, starting from a single day in a London studio in 1969. From Black Sabbath and the eighties faithful through Cathedral, death doom, sludge, stoner, funeral doom and drone to the records of the 2020s, nothing that...

By Ilse Brandt · latest chapter Dec 28, 2025

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